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Howard and Sheila Pizer Charitable Found at a glance

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Howard and Sheila Pizer Charitable Found

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.

$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$25kEducation$17kInternational$16kHealth$11kCivil Rights$10kFood & Nutrition$9kReligion$8kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$337
Median grant
8
States reached
$165k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWESTERN PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW$2,500
BRIARWOOD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$1,103
SARASOTA ART MUSEUM$1,000
NEIU FOUNDATION$500
Individual grant recipient$500
WTTW$500
FEEDING AMERICA$500
THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE$500
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICES$500
FINCA INTERNATIONAL$500
SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO$360
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$360
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN$337
NORTH SHORE FOUNDATION$315
ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY$300
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, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%JEWISH CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $118 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $500 → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $500 → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $100 → 14%CHILDRENS HOME & AID: $200 → 14%SHALVA: $280 → 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

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
NJ
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CA
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
HI
OK
AL
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$86k · 62 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
71

Total granted

$86k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+11%

Still filing today

77%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • TA
    THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    2× · 2020–2021 · $11k · revenue +32%
  • Northwestern University
    3× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +33%
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • HF
    HASBARA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • NP
    NORTHWESTERN PRITZKER SCHOOL EDUCATION
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • CS
    Chicago Symphony Orchestra
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +15%
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.

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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
2
The Adler Planetarium

The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…

Arts & Culture
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
5
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
6
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
7
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
8
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
9
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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10
University of Miami

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

Education
11
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
12
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired; the most unlike its peers is National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section. 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

94 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. 94 of the 144 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
93/94
Grantees still filing
64/94
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HASBARA FOUNDATION: $3,654 · OtherHASBARA FOUNDATIONSpecial Children's Charities: $3,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN PRITZKER SCHOOL EDUCATION: $2,500 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $2,450 · OtherCURT'S CAFE: $2,500 · Other+93 more: $47,948 · Other+93 moreTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $11,075 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE …UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISC…BRIARWOOD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $2,903 · EducationBRIARWOOD SCHOLARS…THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC: $1,300 · EducationTHE FRIENDSHIP CIR…ZETA BETA TAU FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Education+6 more: $1,660 · Education+6 moreAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $5,820 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRA…FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,900 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATI…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL K…HIAS INC: $1,045 · InternationalHIAS INCFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $1,000 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDR…THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $900 · InternationalWords Without Borders Inc: $767 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $760 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $750 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $676 · International+2 more: $350 · InternationalThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $4,050 · Arts & CultureThe Unite…Chicago Symphony Orchestra: $2,000 · Arts & CultureChicago S…THE CHAPTER HOUSE: $1,200 · Arts & CultureTHE CHAPT…WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $875 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO…THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $680 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWIS…Jewish Tapestry Project Inc: $512 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $1,362 · Arts & Culture+9 moreNorthwestern University: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $4,750 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $850 · Food & NutritionMAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $283 · Food & NutritionSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,200 · Crime & LegalSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $350 · Crime & LegalMOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING: $250 · Crime & Legal
Other$62,052Education$20,938International$17,968Arts & Culture$10,679Recreation & Sports$7,500Food & Nutrition$5,883Crime & Legal$5,800

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 budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $11,075 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $5,820 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $4,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $4,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Children's Charities: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRIARWOOD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $2,903 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCURT'S CAFE: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $2,450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $2,042 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Blackhawks Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $1,984 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC: $1,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHAPTER HOUSE: $1,200 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN CHICAGO NORTH SHORE SECTION: $1,125 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRoosevelt University: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $1,045 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetO'NEIL FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZETA BETA TAU FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH SACRED SOCIETY INC: $990 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $875 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWords Without Borders Inc: $767 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $760 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $680 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $676 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $590 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $564 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $526 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaryville Academy: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO WALDORF SCHOOL: $500 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 …The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …AbbVie FoundationGive N KindLloyd a Fry FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …Circle of Service Fou…United Way of Metropo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Ayco Charitable F…The Pfizer Foundation…
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL18.7× affinity7 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 · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Give N Kind · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation 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 Howard and Sheila Pizer Charitable Found funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard and Sheila Pizer Charitable Found. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Howard and Sheila Pizer Charitable Found 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 144 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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