· Private foundation
Jacob Beidler & Deborah Witzburg Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO YOUTH CENTERS | $25,000 |
| NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CHICAGO CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $14,870 |
| NMDP FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY ANNUAL FUND | $2,000 |
| CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS-J BEIDLER ELEMENTARY | $1,000 |
| 3 ARTS | $1,000 |
| ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| NATICK COMMUNITY ORGANIC FARM | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,000 |
| CARA COLLECTIVE | $1,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $1,000 |
| WBEZ CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CYChicago Youth Centers8× · 2018–2025 · $116k · revenue +46%
- NNNEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL8× · 2018–2025 · $87k · revenue +8%
- NFNMDP FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- BUBOSTON UNIVERSITY-WITZBURG SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2018 · $5k
- NCNATURE CONSERVANCY IN ILLINOISone grant, 2018 · $1k
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -36%
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 Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
Operation of a nautical history museum.
Chicago sun-times serves the public interest by strengthening the well-being of our local communities and our democracy through independent local journalism.
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.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
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…
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 39 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 Chicago Youth Centers ↗
- Who funds NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds METROSQUASH NFP ↗
- Who funds Chicago Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE NATICK COMMUNITY ORGANIC FARM INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds LAKE TANGANYIKA FLOATING HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Humble Design Inc ↗
- Who funds ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 3ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS PLAY SPORTS INC NFP ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds HOUSE THEATRE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
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: Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Chicago Community Trust · Francis Beidler III & Prudence R Beidler Foundation · Francis Beidler Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jacob Beidler & Deborah Witzburg Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jacob Beidler & Deborah Witzburg Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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