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Irving M & Sylvia Footlik Foundation at a glance

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Irving M & Sylvia Footlik Foundation

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.

$167k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$490kInternational$403kReligion$259kScience & Tech$250kHealth$50kArts & Culture$35kPhilanthropy$25kCivil Rights$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $67k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY$50,000
OAKTON COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$50,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$25,000
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$20,000
PROJECT AID & RESCUE INC$12,000
THE CENTRAL FUND OF ILLINOIS-METRO CHICAGO HILLEL$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHURAT HA'DIN: $10k → 6%CENTRAL FUND ISRAEL: $10k → 17%ROCHELLE ZELLE JHS: $20k → 8%THE CENTRAL FUND OF ILLINOIS-METRO CHICAGO HILLEL: $20k → 14%STAND WITH US: $10k → 17%ROCHELLE ZELL JHS: $10k → 8%THE CENTRAL FUND OF ILLINOIS-METRO CHICAGO HILLEL: $15k → 14%STAND WITH US: $10k → 17%ROCHELLE ZELL JHS: $10k → 8%THE CENTRAL FUND OF ILLINOIS-METRO CHICAGO HILLEL: $15k → 14%ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH: $20k → 17%ROCHELLE ZELLE JHS: $10k → 8%THE CENTRAL FUND OF ILLINOIS-METRO CHICAGO HILLEL: $15k → 14%ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH: $20k → 17%NORTH SHORE SYNAGOGUE BETH EL: $15k → 8%NORTH SHORE SYNAGOGUE BETH EL: $15k → 8%NORTH SHORE SYNAGOGUE BETH EL: $15k → 8%AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $50k → 14%AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $50k → 14%AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $50k → 14%AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $50k → 14%AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $50k → 14%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $40k → 14%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $20k → 14%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $20k → 14%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $20k → 14%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $16k → 14%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $16k → 14%OAKTON COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%OAKTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $50k → 14%OAKTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $50k → 14%OAKTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $50k → 14%OAKTON COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $70k → 14%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $40k → 14%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $25k → 14%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $25k → 14%CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM: $20k → 14%J-STEM FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%J-STEM FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%SOLOMON SCHECTER DAY SCHOOL: $20k → 14%J-STEM FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $20k → 14%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $20k → 14%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $15k → 14%SOLOMON SCHECTER DAY SCHOOL: $15k → 14%PROJECT AID & RESCUE INC: $12k → 14%AMERICAN CONFERENCE OF CANTORS: $27k → 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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 21 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
11

Total granted

$1.3M
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+27%

Still filing today

24%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationReligionPhilanthropyArts & CultureInternationalHealthOther
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

  • CM
    CHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGN
    4× · 2017–2020 · $32k · revenue +13%
  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +13%
  • NB
    NOGGIN BUILDERS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2022 · $13k · revenue ×15

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN CONFERENCE OF CANTORS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $27k · revenue +35%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

Federation amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place for everyone. we assist people in need, impact chicagoans of all faiths; support israel and the jewish people worldwide; respond swiftly to crises; cultivate…

Philanthropy
3
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Sherit Isroel
—
5
Novachai
Education
6
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
7
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
8
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
9
The Chicago Innovation Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Moskowitz Prize for Zionism Inc
—
11
The Jewish Federations of North America Inc

The federation movement protects and enhances the well-being of jews worldwide through the values of tikkun olam (repairing the world), tzedakah (charity and social justice) and torah (jewish learning). the jewish federations of north…

Philanthropy
12
Zechut Avot Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Mezuzah and Mitzvah Campaign; the most unlike its peers is Project Aid & Rescue 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

9 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. 9 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $250,000 · OtherAMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETYOAKTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $172,000 · OtherOAKTON COMMUNITY COLLEGEFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $148,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESOAKTON COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherOAKTON COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONTHE CENTRAL FUND OF ILLINOIS-METRO CHICAGO HILLEL: $95,000 · OtherTHE CENTRAL FUND OF ILLINOIS-METRO CHICAGO HILLELJ-STEM FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherSOLOMON SCHECTER DAY SCHOOL: $55,000 · OtherISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH: $50,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH SHALOM: $50,000 · OtherNORTH SHORE SYNAGOGUE BETH EL: $45,000 · Other+15 more: $231,000 · Other+15 moreJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $225,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL F…PROJECT AID & RESCUE INC: $22,000 · InternationalPROJECT AID & RES…CHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGN: $31,500 · ReligionNOGGIN BUILDERS FOUNDATION: $13,000 · EducationIllinois Institute of Technology: $4,500 · EducationJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $15,000 · PhilanthropyNorth Shore Center for the Performing Arts Foundation: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO VETERANS: $3,000 · Health
Other$1,256,000International$247,000Religion$31,500Education$17,500Philanthropy$15,000Arts & Culture$10,000Health$3,000

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 NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $225,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGN: $31,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CONFERENCE OF CANTORS INC: $27,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPROJECT AID & RESCUE INC: $22,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNOGGIN BUILDERS FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetNorth Shore Center for the Performing Arts Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO VETERANS: $3,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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 NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGN ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CONFERENCE OF CANTORS INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT AID & RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds NOGGIN BUILDERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds North Shore Center for the Performing Arts Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO VETERANS ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Irving M & Sylvia Footlik Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irving M & Sylvia Footlik Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 33 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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