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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $861,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $906,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $45,500 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.

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
PTA CA Congress of Parents Teachers & Students dba Fiesta Gardens Internati$40,000
Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego$40,000
Meridian Health Foundation$40,000
Chicago South Side Birth Center$15,000
Impact Farming Foundation$12,000
Mona Foundation$12,000
Science Museum of Minnesota$10,000
Minnesota Private College Fund$10,000
American Jewish Committee$10,000
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 (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 its 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: $100k → 12%BLACK MEN TEACH: $300k → 11%Olinga Learning: $100k → 19%SUMMIT COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER (FIRC): $12k → 9%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $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
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

ME
WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
CA
CO
MD
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+1%
+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
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

  • 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

  • TW
    THE WETLANDS INITIATIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +75% · 25% of their budget
  • AP
    AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +79%
  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    one grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue -5%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amherst H Wilder Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

52 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.

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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
26/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…Larkin Street Youth Services: $100,000 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Youth Serv…Solid Ground: $100,000 · Human ServicesSolid GroundGREATER 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 moreTHE WETLANDS INITIATIVE: $500,000 · EnvironmentTHE WETLANDS IN…AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION: $500,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN PRAIRI…+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 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 budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $630,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE WETLANDS INITIATIVE: $500,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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 budgetPrison and Neighborhood Arts-Education Project: $100,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSolid Ground: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR RESEARCH IN EDUCATION FOR DEVELOPMENT INC: $100,000 over 2y, 13% 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 budgetUniversity of Chicago: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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 budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG DANCE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $27,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetONE AIM ILLINOIS: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT: $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN ROOTS MN: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYouth Farm and Market Project: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%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
    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
    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

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 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 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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