· Private foundation
Harry & Sadie Lasky Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $337k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $330k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $170,000 |
| AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY | $60,000 |
| ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $50,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $25,000 |
| ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HAIFA UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| SHALVA | $25,000 |
| KESHET | $20,000 |
| HILLEL INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| SPERTUS COLLEGE AND MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETS-BEIT HALOCHEM | $20,000 |
| THE ARK | $20,000 |
| ROCHELLE ZELL HIGH SCHOOL | $18,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $196k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Harry & Sadie Lasky Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 68% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 57%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +13%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE8× · 2017–2024 · $186k · revenue +78%
- SISHALVA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $178k · revenue +74%
Funded once
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To provide an education based program in israel for college age jewish young adults that will instill students with a sense of purpose, commitment & pride about
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SHALVA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
- Who funds MAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HOSPICE OF THE UPPER GALILEE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds North Shore Auxiliary of Jewish Child and Family Services ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harry & Sadie Lasky Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry & Sadie Lasky Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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