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Howard & Roberta Goss Charitable Foundat at a glance

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Howard & Roberta Goss Charitable Foundat

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$91k
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$397kReligion$126kArts & Culture$121kEducation$54kHealth$28kInternational$12kRecreation & Sports$8kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k44 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$100
Median grant
10
States reached
$524k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH UNITED FUNDS$51,350
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION$12,500
NORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISRAEL$10,905
HADASSAH CHICAGO-NORTH SHORE$3,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$2,500
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH$1,800
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION$1,000
MICHAEL ROLFE PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION$1,000
MAGGIE'S PLACE$500
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND INC$500
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF ILLINOIS$500
ISRAEL PARASPORT CENTER$500
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$300
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS$250
ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$250
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 (FY17–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAGGIE'S PLACE: $500 → 11%BOYS TOWN: $50 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $80 → 14%COMPANIONS FOR HEROS: $25 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $36 → 12%BOYS TOWN: $36 → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50 → 14%MISERCORDIA HOME: $150 → 14%MISERCORDIA HOME: $100 → 14%MISERCORDIA HOME: $50 → 14%FAMILY SERVICES OF GLENCOE: $150 → 14%FAMILY SERVICES OF GLENCOE: $100 → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $100 → 14%FAMILY SERVICES OF GLENCOE: $100 → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $50 → 14%FAMILY SERVICES OF GLENCOE: $50 → 14%GLENCOE YOUTH SERVICE: $50 → 14%GLENCOE YOUTH SERVICE: $50 → 14%GLENCOE YOUTH SERVICE: $50 → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $36 → 14%FAMILY FOCUS INC: $50 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $50 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $50 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $50 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $50 → 14%SHALVA: $100 → 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
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
LA
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$695k · 97 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

97 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 69 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
69

Total granted

$695k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+18%

Still filing today

53%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationOther
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
    7× · 2017–2023 · $344k · revenue +13%
  • RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +53%
  • DU
    DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2022 · $50k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • TA
    TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +18%
  • PP
    PANCREATIC PROGRAM NORTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE
    one grant, 2018 · $500
  • BI
    BELIEVE IN A CURE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $500
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
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
2
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
3
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
4
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
7
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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8
Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…

Health
9
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
10
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
11
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
12
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ultimate Peace 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

103 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. 103 of the 188 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/103
Grantees still filing
70/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $344,233 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO+8 more: $1,891 · PhilanthropyNORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISRAEL: $90,070 · OtherNORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISRAELJEWISH UNITED FUNDS: $51,350 · OtherJEWISH UNITED FUNDSUNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $25,050 · OtherUNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL M…B'NAI JEHOSHUA BETH ELOHIM SYNAGOGUE: $23,797 · OtherB'NAI JEHOSHUA BETH ELOHIM SYNAGOG…+128 more: $43,980 · Other+128 moreRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $77,000 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FESTIV…THE ADLER PLANETARIUM: $9,500 · Arts & CultureTHE ADLER PLAN…HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $3,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $4,876 · Arts & CultureDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $50,100 · Education+4 more: $2,620 · EducationRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $12,100 · HealthCANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $2,825 · HealthFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $900 · Health+17 more: $3,330 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $4,400 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED: $2,860 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,500 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,990 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $900 · International+7 more: $1,008 · InternationalCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $2,300 · Environment
Philanthropy$346,124Other$234,247Arts & Culture$94,876Education$52,720Health$19,155International$13,658Environment$2,300

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $344,233 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $77,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $50,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $12,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADLER PLANETARIUM: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $4,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED: $2,860 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $2,825 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $2,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,990 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $1,350 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMichael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $1,225 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,120 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $1,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $1,050 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLYNN SAGE FOUNDATION: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ISRAEL PROJECT: $625 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $586 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $576 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF ILLINOIS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETA GAMMA SIGMA INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $380 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $376 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $375 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $372 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSurvivor Mitzvah Project: $350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $280 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA VAUGHAN CHAPTER: $266 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $236 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $233 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC: $225 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds THE ADLER PLANETARIUM ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED ↗
  • Who funds CANCER WELLNESS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds LYNN SAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ISRAEL PROJECT ↗

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 …The Chicago Community…Circle of Service Fou…Kovler Family Foundat…AbbVie FoundationHochberg Family Found…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Jewish Community Foun…Rochman Charitable Fo…Jerold a & Ruth L Hec…Highland Park Communi…Mills Family Charitab…
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL38.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Kovler Family Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Hochberg Family Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Rochman Charitable Foundation · Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family Foundation · Highland Park Community Foundation · Mills Family Charitable 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 & Roberta Goss Charitable Foundat funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard & Roberta Goss Charitable Foundat. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 188 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home