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Igrb Foundation

The foundation is exclusively organized to foster, promote, support, develop, encourage and maintain a specific charitable, educational or religious purpose or function of, or as authorized in the charter of, the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago.

$907k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Education$1.6MEnvironment$1.0MArts & Culture$810kHuman Services$692kHealth$606kInternational$487kCrime & Legal$440kHousing & Shelter$440kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $861,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $906,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $45,500 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $199k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $362k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$40,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Feeding San Diego$300,000
Coherent Development Research Institute$100,000
Olinga Learning$100,000
Summit County Family Resource Center (FIRC)$62,000
Center for Research in Education for Development$50,000
Focus Points Family Resource Center$50,000
Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego$40,000
PTA CA Congress of Parents Teachers & Students dba Fiesta Gardens Internati$40,000
Meridian Health Foundation$40,000
Chicago South Side Birth Center$15,000
Impact Farming Foundation$12,000
Mona Foundation$12,000
One Aim Illinois$10,000
American Jewish Committee$10,000
Science Museum of Minnesota$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery: $75k → 11%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $100k → 10%Olinga Learning: $100k → 19%Summit County Family Resource Center (FIRC): $62k → 9%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $100k → 12%BLACK MEN TEACH: $300k → 11%OLINGA LEARNING: $100k → 19%SUMMIT COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER (FIRC): $12k → 9%Focus Points Family Resource: $100k → 12%Black Men Teach: $100k → 11%Olinga Learning: $80k → 19%Focus Points Family Resource Center: $50k → 12%Olinga Learning: $65k → 19%SOLID GROUND: $100k → 14%Amherst H Wilder Foundation: $105k → 14%The Ark: $100k → 14%The Ark: $42k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
CA
CO
MD
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.8M · 28 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
21

Total granted

$4.8M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+17%

Still filing today

96%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

  • SM
    SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $630k · revenue +14%
  • BM
    Black Men Teach
    2× · 2023–2024 · $400k · revenue +50%
  • FS
    FEEDING SAN DIEGO
    2× · 2024–2025 · $350k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • AP
    AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +79%
  • TW
    THE WETLANDS INITIATIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +75% · 25% of their budget
  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    one grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue -5%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
2
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
3
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
4
Nexus Community Partners

Nexus' mission is to build more engaged and powerful communities by supporting community building initiatives that expand community wealth and foster social and human capital.

Philanthropy
5
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
6
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
8
Minnesota State Council On Economic Education

Mcee equips minnesotans with the economic and personal financial knowledge and skills to make informed decisions and thrive in our complex world. we fulfill our mission by teaching teachers through top quality professional development and…

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9
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
10
The Partnership for College Completion

The Partnership for College Completion (PCC) champions policies, practices, and systems that increase college completion and eliminate degree completion disparities for low-income, first generation, and students of color in Illinois…

Education
11
Youthprise

Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.

Education
12
Environmental Initiative

Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amherst H Wilder Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Meridian Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Local History MuseumsFood Banks and PantriesJewish Community Organizati…Health Access Advocacy and …Independent K-12 SchoolsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…School Parent OrganizationsLocal Food System Organizat…Elementary Literacy TutoringDomestic Violence ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Dance Arts OrganizationsCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%20%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,513

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.

04the grantee network

52 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
25/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Black Men Teach — $400,000 · Human ServicesBlack Men TeachOLINGA LEARNING — $345,000 · Human ServicesOLINGA LEARNINGFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $250,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESO…THE ARK — $142,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARKAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $105,000 · Human ServicesAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDAT…Solid Ground — $100,000 · Human ServicesSolid GroundLarkin Street Youth Services — $100,000 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Youth Serv…GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $75,000 · Human ServicesSUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER — $74,000 · Human ServicesCOHERENT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $260,000 · EducationCOHERENT DEVELOPM…PRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE — $225,000 · EducationPRISON UNIVERSITY…Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego — $130,000 · EducationAssociation for W…PROJECT SYNCERE — $109,000 · EducationPROJECT SYNCERECENTER FOR RESEARCH IN EDUCATION FOR DEVELOPMENT INC — $100,000 · EducationCENTER FOR RESEAR…BOOKS AND BREAKFAST — $93,000 · EducationBOOKS AND BREAKFA…University of Chicago — $75,000 · EducationUniversity of Chi…CITY OF LAKES WALDORF SCHOOL — $50,000 · Education+4 more — $95,000 · Education+4 moreAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION — $500,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN PRAIRI…THE WETLANDS INITIATIVE — $500,000 · EnvironmentTHE WETLANDS IN…+1 more — $18,000 · EnvironmentMONA FOUNDATION — $387,000 · PhilanthropyMONA FOUNDA…JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $300,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNIT…MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $94,500 · PhilanthropyMERIDIAN HE…PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE CHARITIES INC — $250,000 · OtherPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE CHARIT…NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 · OtherNORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVER…PTA CAL CONGRESS OF PARENTS FIESTA GARDENS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL — $140,000 · OtherPTA CAL CONGRESS OF PARENTS …MERIDIAN FOUNDATION — $91,000 · OtherNorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc — $300,000 · OtherNorthPoint Health and Wellne…CHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY — $95,000 · OtherFEEDING SAN DIEGO — $350,000 · OtherFEEDING SAN DIEGOThe Cara Program — $120,000 · OtherThe Cara ProgramNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK — $75,000 · OtherALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY — $90,000 · Other+10 more — $187,000 · Other+10 moreSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA — $630,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MU…YOUNG DANCE INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER — $190,000 · Crime & LegalPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH — $150,000 · Crime & LegalPrison and Neighborhood Arts-Education Project — $100,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$1,591,000Education$1,137,000Environment$1,018,000Philanthropy$781,500Other$1,848,000Arts & Culture$660,000Crime & Legal$440,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA — $630,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE WETLANDS INITIATIVE — $500,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetBlack Men Teach — $400,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetMONA FOUNDATION — $387,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO — $350,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOLINGA LEARNING — $345,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetNorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc — $300,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $300,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOHERENT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $260,000 over 4y, 40% of budgetFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $250,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE CHARITIES INC — $250,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetPRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE — $225,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER — $190,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH — $150,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetNORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE ARK — $142,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPTA CAL CONGRESS OF PARENTS FIESTA GARDENS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL — $140,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetAssociation for Waldorf Education in San Diego — $130,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetThe Cara Program — $120,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT SYNCERE — $109,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $105,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR RESEARCH IN EDUCATION FOR DEVELOPMENT INC — $100,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetSolid Ground — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPrison and Neighborhood Arts-Education Project — $100,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY — $95,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOOKS AND BREAKFAST — $93,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetMERIDIAN FOUNDATION — $91,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY — $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK — $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $75,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER — $74,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCITY OF LAKES WALDORF SCHOOL — $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCURT'S CAFE — $40,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetYOUNG DANCE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP) — $27,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetONE AIM ILLINOIS — $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT — $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Farm and Market Project — $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

I & G Charitable Foun…The Chicago Community…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Vivo FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…Otto Bremer TrustWayfarer FoundationGreater Twin Cities U…Polk Bros Foundation …
I & G Charitable FoundationIL45.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: I & G Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Vivo Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Wayfarer Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Polk Bros Foundation 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 Igrb 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Igrb Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Igrb 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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