Illinois · Public charity
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago
Juf provides critical resources that bring food, refuge, health care, education and emergency assistance to over 500,000 chicagoans of all faiths and millions of jews in israel and around the world, funding a network of 100+ agencies, schools, and programs.
- $108M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Jewish Federations Of North America Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 37 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $37,600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $57,188,651
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 54
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $261M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $4.8M | 27% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $7.9M | 57% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $3.2M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $2.7M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $1.9M | 14% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $1.2M | 26% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $1.2M | 17% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $2.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $4,944,540 | 8 | 0% |
| Jewish Child and Family Services | $2,567,387 | 8 | 2% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $2,136,280 | 1 | 2% |
| Jewish Community Centers of Chicago | $1,759,593 | 8 | 1% |
| Council for Jewish Elderly | $1,570,150 | 8 | 1% |
| Hebrew Theological College | $1,207,325 | 8 | n/a |
| The Ark | $1,189,992 | 8 | 3% |
| American Friends of Natal Inc | $1,040,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center | $1,024,724 | 8 | 0% |
| The Quad Project Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 49% |
Show all 76 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Bitton Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Crown Family Foundation · Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · The Novick Family Foundation · Bellows Family Foundation · Elliott and Ronni Charitable Fdn · The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation
How this is measured
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About Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago
- How much does Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago give?
- Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago reported 41 grants totaling $108,143,568 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 54 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (97%), International (1%), Human Services (1%).
- Who are Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ($4.9M), Jewish Child and Family Services ($2.6M), American Friends of Magen David Adom ($2.1M).
- Does Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial, Bitton Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago based?
- Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago is based in IL.
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