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Jbs Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k45 grants · $140k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $272k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF IDF | $45,000 |
| FIGUEROA WU FAMILY FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| SHALVA | $30,000 |
| THE ARK | $25,000 |
| ZAKA TEL-AVIV | $21,800 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $21,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $20,000 |
| DEERFIELD FOOD PANTRY | $18,000 |
| A SAFE PLACE | $17,000 |
| ONE LAWNDALE CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER | $16,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $12,000 |
| KIPP CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $11,000 |
| VIBRANT EMOTIONAL HEALTH | $9,520 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $8,000 |
| NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC | $8,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $293k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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 +20% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- FWFIGUEROA WU FAMILY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $215k · revenue ×15
- LCLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $93k · revenue +369%
- NSNORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC6× · 2019–2024 · $58k · revenue +305%
Funded once
- CPCHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $37k
- NCNEW COVENANT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue -33%
- IBI BELONGone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
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To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
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…
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Hope for Cambodian Children. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
116 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. 116 of the 195 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 FIGUEROA WU FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds SOO EAGLES BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Centers of Chicago ↗
- Who funds NEW COVENANT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Zaka Tel-Aviv Inc ↗
- Who funds MIRACLES IN PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds One Lawndale Childrens Discovery Center ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) ↗
- Who funds ORANGE RIBBONS FOR JAIME INC ↗
- Who funds FALCONS HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds FURNISHING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Child and Family Services ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Educational Network ↗
- Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
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 · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Kovler Family Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Leon and Sharon Kaufman Foundation · The Bill Bass 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 Jbs 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Good News Home Inc — 54% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Keshet Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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