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Horwich Family Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of Horwich Family Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Metropolitan Chicago, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Horwich Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $29k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 27 grants below total $26,047 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $29,322 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,275 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OAKWOOD SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION | $4,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $1,313 |
| RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $1,250 |
| GLASA | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS HOWARD WEINSTEIN FUND | $1,000 |
| ROLFE PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION | $700 |
| WTTW | $500 |
| SNOWMASS VILLAGE COMMUNIITY FUND | $500 |
| ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ISREAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND | $500 |
| FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL | $500 |
| THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON | $383 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
18 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum2× · 2018–2020 · $5k · revenue +16%
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION2× · 2018–2020 · $5k · revenue +51%- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO2× · 2018–2020 · $3k · revenue +34%
Funded once
University of Chicagograduatedone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +52%- DLDE LA SALLE INTITUTEone grant, 2018 · $5k
- RARAVINIA ANNUAL FUNDone grant, 2018 · $4k
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Education and Research
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Dream Academy Inc. 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 57 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 16% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 51 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CATTICUS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Almost Home Kids ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds Lake Forest College ↗
- Who funds WINNETKA COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Yad LKashishLifeline for the Old ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
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 · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Horwich Family 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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