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Howard & Helaine Resnick Foundation at a glance

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Howard & Helaine Resnick Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$999kRecreation & Sports$212kReligion$124kInternational$71kEducation$37kArts & Culture$34kHealth$30kEnvironment$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$207
Median grant
8
States reached
$181k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Friends of the IDF$11,165
Northwestern University$10,405
The Giving Back Fund$1,800
MSK Giving$1,100
Individual grant recipient$1,035
JCFS$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$371
Chabad of Glencoe$360
North Suburban Synagogue Beth El Endowment Fund Inc$347
Family Support Program$239
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago$221
Individual grant recipient$207
Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$204
Back on My Feet Boston$180
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $1k → 8%Israeli American Council: $5k → 14%NORTH SHORE AUXILIARY OF JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 14%NORTH SHORE AUXILIARY OF JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $180 → 14%CHICAGO CHESED FUND: $500 → 14%Shalva: $180 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$757k · 27 repeat orgs$751k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
57

Total granted

$757k
$735k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+12%

Still filing today

63%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    6× · 2020–2025 · $313k · revenue +13%
  • Northwestern University
    6× · 2020–2025 · $196k · revenue +33%
  • IT
    ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • RC
    Resnick Charitable Fund
    one grant, 2022 · $672k
  • WS
    WOLCOTT SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +14%
  • IH
    IL Holocaust Museum & Education Center
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
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 Judaism Foundation
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2
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
3
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
4
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
5
Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc

To support cancer research in israel, for the benefit of israel and all mankind.

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6
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
7
Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy
8
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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9
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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10
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
11
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
12
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Israel Tennis Centers Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Infinite Campus Foundation. 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

57 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. 57 of the 101 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/57
Grantees still filing
37/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Resnick Charitable Fund: $672,311 · OtherResnick Charitable Fund+67 more: $127,795 · Other+67 moreJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $313,396 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF MET…Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $16,937 · Philanthropy+7 more: $10,767 · PhilanthropyNorthwestern University: $196,060 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern U…+2 more: $4,464 · Recreation & SportsNORTH SUBURBAN SYNAGOGUE BETH EL ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $77,826 · ReligionOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $15,000 · Religion+2 more: $684 · ReligionISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $30,360 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $18,160 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $11,165 · International+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $10,445 · Arts & CultureChicago Festival of Israeli Cinema NFP: $7,367 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $985 · Arts & CultureWOLCOTT SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationKEHILLAH JEWISH EDUCATION FUND: $1,800 · Education+3 more: $870 · Education
Other$800,106Philanthropy$341,100Recreation & Sports$200,524Religion$93,510International$60,685Arts & Culture$22,797Education$15,170

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $313,396 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $196,060 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $30,360 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $18,160 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMichael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $16,937 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $10,445 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $10,018 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOLCOTT SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Festival of Israeli Cinema NFP: $7,367 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $5,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $4,360 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $4,360 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Shore Auxiliary of Jewish Child and Family Services: $2,355 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPROJECT PURPLE INC: $2,115 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKEHILLAH JEWISH EDUCATION FUND: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL CANCER ASSOCIATION (USA) CORP: $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSanta Barbara Hillel: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CURE ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $763 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $521 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $520 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $504 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO CHESED FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING POWER INC: $393 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $373 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCHELLE ZELL JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNO SHAME ON U INC: $360 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGivenGain Foundation USA: $263 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $220 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE DBA JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $207 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINFINITE CAMPUS FOUNDATION: $197 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $189 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHALVA INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $132 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDARE2TRI PARATRIATHLON CLUB: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLIDARITY BRIDGE INC: $100 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 …Hochberg Family Found…Arie and Ida Crown Me…The Chicago Community…Sam I Am FoundationCharles and M R Shapi…Maury and Nancy Ferti…Kovler Family Foundat…Circle of Service Fou…Jewish Communal FundCombined Jewish Phila…AbbVie Foundation
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL32.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Hochberg Family Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Chicago Community Trust · Sam I Am Foundation · Charles and M R Shapiro Foundation Inc · Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation · Kovler Family Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · AbbVie Foundation

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 Howard & Helaine Resnick Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard & Helaine Resnick Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    10get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 101 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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