· Public charity
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Federation amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place for everyone.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 896 grants below total $166,569,662 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $178,264,506 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,694,844 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k181 grants · $1.3M
- $10k–50k463 grants · $9.6M
- $50k–250k188 grants · $18M
- $250k+64 grants · $138M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CJE SENIOR LIFE | $27,413,884 |
| JEWISH CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES | $11,811,403 |
| ARIE CROWN HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $10,471,791 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $9,199,360 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO | $6,847,560 |
| ANSHE EMET SYNAGOGUE | $6,352,930 |
| REFUGEEONE | $5,448,015 |
| WORLD RELIEF OF DUPAGE AND AURORA | $4,631,520 |
| HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE | $4,081,968 |
| ASSOCIATED TALMUD TORAHS | $3,249,712 |
| JFMC FACILITIES CORPORATION | $3,001,918 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $2,462,443 |
| WORLD RELIEF - CHICAGO | $2,376,975 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $2,126,230 |
| GROW GREATER ENGLEWOOD | $2,000,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $400.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +31% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
1041 repeat relationships — 635 still active in FY2025, 406 since wound down; 138 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.8M 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
- CFCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY9× · 2017–2025 · $172M · revenue +8% · 44% of their budget
- JCJewish Child and Family Services9× · 2017–2025 · $107M · revenue +43% · 38% of their budget
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO9× · 2017–2025 · $94M · revenue +13%
Funded once
- TMTHE MANDEKO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10M · 91% of their budget
THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INCone grant, 2023 · $1.8M · revenue -51%- JCJEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $971k · revenue +16%
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 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…
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
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.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
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,…
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
Brown risd hillel encourages and supports a diversity of students as they explore, develop and deepen their jewish identities. we are committed to having judaism serve as a source of meaning and growth during their time on college hill and…
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is SoQuiet. 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 31 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
1402 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. 1402 of the 1,750 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds JFMC FACILITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Jewish Child and Family Services ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Centers of Chicago ↗
- Who funds SPERTUS INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ARK ↗
- Who funds THE MANDEKO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds GROW GREATER ENGLEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds FOREFRONT ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds JGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds SHORASHIM INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Vocational Service & Employment Center ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds ROCHELLE ZELL JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMIT CHILDREN 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: Circle of Service Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jarvis Foundation · Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation · Bitton Family Foundation Inc · Walder Foundation · Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation · Kovler Family Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago
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 Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago 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
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% 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.