· Public charity
Harvey L Miller Supporting Foundation
The foundation is organized to foster, promote, support, develop, and maintain the broad, charitable, educational or religious purposes or functions as authorized by the charter of the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago and the by-laws of the foundation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $500,000 |
| ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER | $350,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $250,000 |
| CANTORS ASSEMBLY INC | $100,000 |
| SPERTUS INST FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP | $100,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $100,000 |
| SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| ROCHELLE ZELL JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| THE ARK | $100,000 |
| THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES | $100,000 |
| SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF METRO CHICAGO | $100,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $100,000 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA | $75,000 |
| UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA | $52,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.2M) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HMHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +14%
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +13%
- TATHE ARK9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +151%
Funded once
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $256k · revenue +41%- NRNATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- JLJEWISH LEARNING INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2022 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation Council of Greater La and the most unlike its peers is Victory Gardens Theater. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ROCHELLE ZELL JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE ARK ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CANTOR'S ASSEMBLY ↗
- Who funds CANCER WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds SPERTUS INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE JACK MILLER CENTER FOR TEACHING AMERICA'S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES AND ↗
- Who funds Victory Gardens Theater ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Harvey L Miller Supporting Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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