· Private foundation
Jacob Beidler & Deborah Witzburg Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $1,000 |
| CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS-J BEIDLER ELEMENTARY | $1,000 |
| CARA COLLECTIVE | $1,000 |
| ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| WBEZ CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA | $1,000 |
| 3 ARTS | $1,000 |
| NATICK COMMUNITY ORGANIC FARM | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,000 |
| CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of your 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 +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
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
- CYChicago Youth Centers8× · 2018–2025 · $116k · revenue +46%
- NNNEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL8× · 2018–2025 · $87k · revenue +8%
- NFNMDP FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- BUBOSTON UNIVERSITY-WITZBURG SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2018 · $5k
- HDHumble Design Incone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
- IEISLITA ENGLISH-FOUNDATION FOR THE AID OF YOUTH IN COSTA RICAone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids First Chicago for Education and the most unlike its peers is Humble Design Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 39 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.
- 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 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE TANGANYIKA FLOATING HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds Humble Design Inc ↗
- Who funds 3ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOUSE THEATRE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds GIRLS PLAY SPORTS INC NFP ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN 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: 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
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 Jacob Beidler & Deborah Witzburg Charitable 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.
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.