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Jane Woldenberg Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$455k
Granted FY2022
27
Grants FY2022
25
Organizations funded FY2022
44%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$348,583
Organizations funded a year
18 to 25
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
5
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 44% of the organizations Jane Woldenberg Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $396k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentCivil RightsHealthOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202225$453k44%
FY202122$71k59%
FY202018$45kn/a
83% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Health$86kPhilanthropy$70kReligion$36kArts & Culture$34kEducation$8kHuman Services$6kEmployment$6kCivil Rights$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($448k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jane Woldenberg Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRavinia Festival Association: $13,859 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil for Jewish Elderly: $5,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Job Center Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDaniel Murphy Scholarship Fund: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTools for Tomorrow Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Northmoor Education Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPalm Springs Art Museum: $595 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRochelle Zell Jewish High School: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Springs Friends of Philharmonic: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChicago Horticultural Society: $447 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pilgrim Chamber Players: $350 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNorth Shore Senior Center: $160 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAARP Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMichael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $26 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 21.

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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 ChicagoIL17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Karmin Family Charitable Trust · Jerome H Stone Family Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Jane Woldenberg Family Foundation

How much does Jane Woldenberg Family Foundation give?
Jane Woldenberg Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $455,080 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Jane Woldenberg Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Health (14%), Philanthropy (11%), Religion (6%).
Who are Jane Woldenberg Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: North Shore Congregation Israel ($33k), Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($30k), Ravinia Festival Association ($14k).
Does Jane Woldenberg Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jane Woldenberg Family Foundation 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 Jane Woldenberg Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Karmin Family Charitable Trust, Jerome H Stone Family Foundation.
Where is Jane Woldenberg Family Foundation based?
Jane Woldenberg Family Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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