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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.

$29k
Granted FY2020
27
Grants FY2020
6
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

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’17
27
’18
0
’19
16
’20
0
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Philanthropy$1.1MEducation$31kArts & Culture$19kHealth$9kReligion$1kInternational$1kCivil Rights$1kSocial Science$500Other$0
02FY2020 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 27 grants below total $26,047, the rows itemized in this filing. The $29,322 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,275 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS HOWARD WEINSTEIN FUND$1,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$1,000
GLASA$1,000
ROLFE PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION$700
WTTW$500
FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL$500
ISREAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND$500
ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION$500
SNOWMASS VILLAGE COMMUNIITY FUND$500
THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON$383
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SEE STATEMENT ATTACHED: $192k → 14%SEE STATEMENT ATTACHED: $163k → 14%SEE STATEMENT ATTACHED: $52k → 14%SEE STATEMENT ATTACHED: $48k → 14%SEE STATEMENT ATTACHED: $35k → 14%SEE STATEMENT ATTACHED: $30k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CHICAGO: $1.1M → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$41k · 18 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
23

Total granted

$41k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+52%

Still filing today

72%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    2× · 2018–2020 · $5k · revenue +34%
  • RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2018–2020 · $5k · revenue +50%
  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    2× · 2018–2020 · $3k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • University of Chicagograduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +52%
  • DL
    DE LA SALLE INTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • RA
    RAVINIA ANNUAL FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
Loyola University of Chicago

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.

Education
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
University of Chicago Medical Center

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…

Health
5
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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7
New York University

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.

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
University of Southern California

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
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
12
Lehigh University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 51 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
28/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $1,122,277 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO+2 more: $4,508 · PhilanthropyOAKWOOD SCHOOL: $12,000 · OtherDE LA SALLE INTITUTE: $4,900 · OtherRAVINIA ANNUAL FUND: $4,000 · OtherEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $2,300 · OtherGLASA: $1,750 · OtherTHE THRESHOLDS: $1,289 · Other+23 more: $8,715 · OtherUniversity of Chicago: $7,750 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $1,900 · EducationFrancis W Parker School: $1,000 · EducationTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $859 · EducationLake Forest College: $500 · Education+2 more: $500 · EducationThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,322 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $4,500 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureWINNETKA COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $250 · Arts & CultureALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,250 · HealthRush University Medical Center: $1,250 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $500 · HealthCHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $1,000 · Human ServicesAlmost Home Kids: $1,000 · Human ServicesFriends of Yad LKashishLifeline for the Old: $250 · Human ServicesISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · International
Philanthropy$1,126,785Other$34,954Education$12,509Arts & Culture$11,572Health$4,000Human Services$2,250International$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $1,122,277 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $7,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,322 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $3,308 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $1,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS: $1,289 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMichael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $1,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATTICUS CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFrancis W Parker School: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlmost Home Kids: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $859 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $710 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINNETKA COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLake Forest College: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUILD INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Federation of …AbbVie FoundationThe Chicago Community…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Ayco Charitable F…American Endowment Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Horwich Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Horwich Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Horwich Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Horwich Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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