· Private foundation
Ira J Kaufman Family Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
70% of Ira J Kaufman Family Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Ira J Kaufman Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 20 organizations, $67k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k30 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSION COMPASSION PAW | $14,408 |
| RAVINIA | $7,200 |
| AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| AUDITORIUM THEATRE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| INVEST FOR KIDS | $3,090 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $3,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK GIANTS CLUB | $2,795 |
| HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT | $2,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $2,000 |
| THE NIGHT MINISTRY | $1,500 |
| HEARTLAND ALLIANCE | $1,500 |
| MICHIANA HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| OAK SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| GLOBAL SPINE OUTREACH | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $14k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +102% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MCMISSION COMPASSION PAW INC3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +849%
- ACAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +99%
- IFInvest for Kids Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +29%
- ISIAN SOMERFELD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Miracle Network and the most unlike its peers is Inclusion Body Myositis Foundation Inc. 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
32 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. 32 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds MISSION COMPASSION PAW INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Invest for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds MICHIANA HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds HINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds American Liver Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Inspiration Corporation ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ira J Kaufman Family 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.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.