· Private foundation
James and Lesley Anixter 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 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 $10k18 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $100,000 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION | $6,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS - CHICAGO WOMEN'S BOARD | $6,000 |
| JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES | $6,000 |
| AM SHALOM | $5,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH | $2,300 |
| FRIENDS OF ELNET | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| ANIXTER CENTER - CHICAGO HEARING SOCIETY DIVISION | $2,000 |
| CAMP GAN ISRAEL | $1,800 |
| KATHY'S HOUSE | $1,000 |
| GPF FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HELPING HANDS NETWORK | $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 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of James and Lesley Anixter Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO9× · 2017–2025 · $596k · revenue +13%
- JCJEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +24%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES4× · 2019–2025 · $23k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- DEDON'T EVER GIVE UP INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -14%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
- JFJCCC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +3%
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.
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Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 71 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 JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC ↗
- Who funds LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DON'T EVER GIVE UP INC ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON SCHECHTER ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LAMBS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds JCCC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds GPF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
- Who funds BLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Keystone Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS BRITTLE BONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Highland Park Community Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · The Bill Bass Foundation · Kovler Family Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · YEA Highland Park Inc · Goodman Family Fund · Sam I Am Foundation · Jerrold Ruskin Foundation Inc · Healthcare Foundation of Highland Park · Mills Family Charitable Foundation
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 James and Lesley Anixter 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.