Does Jack & Shirley Dubow Charitable Foundation C/O Nancy Himmelstein accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Jack & Shirley Dubow Charitable Foundation C/O Nancy Himmelstein?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, AbbVie Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.

Foundation Dossiers

Illinois · Private foundation

Jack & Shirley Dubow Charitable Foundation C/O Nancy Himmelstein

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.

$84k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 11
Grants FY2025: 10
Organizations funded FY2024: 50%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $530
Largest grant, FY2025: $75,154
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 20; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 5
Total assets, FY2025: $1.1M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Jack & Shirley Dubow Charitable Foundation C/O Nancy Himmelstein funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationInternationalOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	10	$84k	50%
FY2024	10	$65k	50%
FY2023	10	$63k	40%
FY2022	20	$68k	65%
FY2021	9	$75k	67%
FY2020	7	$41k	29%
FY2019	8	$34k	50%
FY2018	14	$24k	64%

88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$288kReligion$80kHuman Services$19kHealth$8kEducation$5kEnvironment$839Youth Development$692International$546Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Makom Solel Lakeside	$43,996	7	n/a
Congregation Solel	$34,550	2	n/a
Lake County Crisis Center	$18,313	7	0%
Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation	$3,050	1	0%
Hfs Chicago Scholars	$1,816	3	0%
The Dragonfly Foundation	$1,259	1	0%
Chicago Horticultural Society	$839	6	0%
Lchaim Center of the Northshore Inc	$680	1	n/a
Breakthrough T1d	$430	4	0%
American Friends of Jordan River Village Foundation	$420	1	0%

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All grantees of Jack & Shirley Dubow Charitable Foundation C/O Nancy Himmelstein by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Makom Solel Lakeside	$43,996	7	n/a
Congregation Solel	$34,550	2	n/a
Lake County Crisis Center	$18,313	7	0%
Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation	$3,050	1	0%
Hfs Chicago Scholars	$1,816	3	0%
The Dragonfly Foundation	$1,259	1	0%
Chicago Horticultural Society	$839	6	0%
Lchaim Center of the Northshore Inc	$680	1	n/a
Breakthrough T1d	$430	4	0%
American Friends of Jordan River Village Foundation	$420	1	0%
The Michael Matters Foundation Inc	$400	1	0%
Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education Inc	$375	3	0%
Special Kids Network Inc	$340	1	0%
Rett Syndrome Research Trust Inc	$250	1	0%
Rush University Medical Center	$200	1	0%
St Baldrick's Foundation Inc	$200	1	0%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc	$194	2	0%
Keshet	$180	1	0%
Family Service of Glencoe	$150	1	0%
Handson Suburban Chicago	$127	1	0%
The Maddie Kramer Foundation d/b/a Dancing While Cancering	$118	1	0%
American Brain Tumor Association	$108	1	0%
Dementia Society Inc	$108	1	0%
Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation	$100	1	0%
Temple Beth Israel	$75	1	n/a
Good Sports Inc	$72	1	0%
Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc	$56	1	0%
John and Matthew Gaudreau Foundation	$54	1	0%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc	$50	1	0%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc	$50	1	0%
Lost Boyzinc	$36	1	0%
Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc	$36	1	n/a
Mothers Trust Foundation	$27	1	0%
Congregation Beth Israel Ner Tamid	$25	1	n/a
American Heart Association Inc	$25	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($369k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jack & Shirley Dubow Charitable Foundation C/O Nancy Himmelstein supplied at peak.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Chubb Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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.

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About Jack & Shirley Dubow Charitable Foundation C/O Nancy Himmelstein

How much does Jack & Shirley Dubow Charitable Foundation C/O Nancy Himmelstein give?: Jack & Shirley Dubow Charitable Foundation C/O Nancy Himmelstein reported 11 grants totaling $83,951 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Jack & Shirley Dubow Charitable Foundation C/O Nancy Himmelstein fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (60%), Religion (17%), Human Services (4%).
Who are Jack & Shirley Dubow Charitable Foundation C/O Nancy Himmelstein's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Makom Solel Lakeside ($44k), Congregation Solel ($35k), Lake County Crisis Center ($18k).
Does Jack & Shirley Dubow Charitable Foundation C/O Nancy Himmelstein fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jack & Shirley Dubow Charitable Foundation C/O Nancy Himmelstein accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jack & Shirley Dubow Charitable Foundation C/O Nancy Himmelstein?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, AbbVie Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
Where is Jack & Shirley Dubow Charitable Foundation C/O Nancy Himmelstein based?: Jack & Shirley Dubow Charitable Foundation C/O Nancy Himmelstein is based in IL.