· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE ARK | $100,000 |
| SPERTUS INST FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP | $100,000 |
| SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF METRO CHICAGO | $100,000 |
| SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $100,000 |
| ROCHELLE ZELL JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $100,000 |
| THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES | $100,000 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA | $75,000 |
| UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA | $52,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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
How this is measured
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%- JLJEWISH LEARNING INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2022 · $100k
- NRNATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +5%
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.
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How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 25 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 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 JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harvey L Miller Supporting Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harvey L Miller Supporting Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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