· Private foundation
Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of JEROLD A & RUTH L HECKTMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUF | $16,200 |
| CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SPERTUS INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| GENESYS WORKS | $5,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH-EL | $3,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,396 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| BRIARWOOD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES | $1,350 |
| CANCER WELLNESS CENTER | $1,250 |
| ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $680 |
| CURES WITHIN REACH | $500 |
| HADASSAH | $416 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $300 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FOREST PRESERVE | $250 |
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 (FY18–24, $1k) 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 +34% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 5 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- CWCANCER WELLNESS CENTER6× · 2018–2024 · $7k · revenue +100%
- BSBRIARWOOD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +56%
- CBCOLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES3× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- WBWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGOgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +58%
- IGIMPACT GRANTS CHICAGOgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +26%
- OAORT AMERICA INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -6%
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.
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…
The foundation is organized to foster, promote, support, develop, encourage and maintain the broad charitable, educational and/or religious purpose of, the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago, and the foundation as authorized in…
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.
To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
To support and carry out the exempt purposes of the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago and the jewish united fund of metropolitan chicago by such means as the board of directors of the organizations may determine. this is…
The norton & elaine sarnoff center for jewish genetics (the center) is an educational resource for hereditary cancers and jewish genetic disorders. working closely with clergy, health care professionals, support organizations and dedicated…
The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Juliana Greenfield Family Foundation. 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 35 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) — 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 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.
63 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. 63 of the 114 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 PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRIARWOOD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MACCABI USA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
- Who funds THE LAMBS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR RESIDENTIAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Child and Family Services ↗
- Who funds BACK 2 SCHOOL AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds DAN GIBBONS TURKEY TROT FOUNDATION NFP ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
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 · First Bank Chicago Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Sam I Am Foundation · Howard & Roberta Goss Charitable Foundat · The Bill Bass Foundation · Jbs Foundation · The Sidley Austin 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 Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family 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.
- Jewish Association for Residential Care Inc — 1% 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.