· Private foundation
Jack a and Sheila a Weinberg Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $320k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $120,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $100,081 |
| INSTITUTE FOR TRUTH IN ACCOUNTING | $100,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR TRUTH IN ACCOUNTING | $35,000 |
| FILL A HEART 4 KIDS | $5,000 |
| ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| NORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISRAEL | $4,800 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER7× · 2019–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +26%
- PCPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE4× · 2019–2024 · $38k · revenue +23%
- CBCHICAGO BLACKHAWK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION3× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +205%
Funded once
- HIHELPHOPELIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +35%
- TETHE EMBER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +43%
- COCHABAD OF GLENCOEone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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.
To ensure a strong, talented, and diverse cpa profession in illinois by encouraging individuals to choose accounting as a career choice and become a cpa, and by supporting students, particularly those in need, in achieving the cpa.
Aia chicago foundation invests in chicago's next generation of architectural change-makers by awarding scholarships, grants, and recognition.
Make an authentic jewish education, coupled with an excellent secular education, available and affordable to all jewish families in the chicagoland community.
The foundation was established exclusively for the benefit of and to carry out the purposes of the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago, a not-for-profit organization.
To provide donations to unrelated charitable organizations and to promote the sport of platform tennis to student-aged athletes.
The Jewish Council on Urban Affair's (JCUA) longstanding mission is to combat poverty, racism and antisemitism working in partnership with diverse communities. JCUA uses a community organizing model to engage the Jewish community in the…
To raise and distribute funds, goods, food, and assistance to the poverty-stricken in the jewish community.
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Advance illinois was founded in 2008 as an independent policy and advocacy organization that works toward a heathy public education system that prepares students to achieve success in college, career, and civic life. advance illinois is…
Big ten academic alliance is a consortium of 18 top-tier research universities, including members of the big ten conference, who collaborate to advance their academic missions, generate unique opportunities for students and faculty, and…
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 13 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds TRUTH IN ACCOUNTING ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROBERT CROWN CENTER ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO BLACKHAWK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FILL A HEART 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jack a and Sheila a Weinberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack a and Sheila a Weinberg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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