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.

Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago

Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$57M

Largest

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

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$693MInternational$9.4MHuman Services$7.6MEducation$2.3MReligion$1.7MHealth$1.7MCivil Rights$1.0MArts & Culture$424kOther$0

02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $21k
$10k–50k21 grants · $523k
$50k–250k12 grants · $1.5M
$250k+5 grants · $105M

$37,600

Median grant

States reached

$261M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Jewish Federations of North America	$57,188,651
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago	$44,382,915
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee	$2,570,000
The Giving Back Fund	$1,000,000
The Ark	$291,257
Jewish Child & Family Services	$243,364
American Friends of Sheba Medical Center	$232,600
Mt Sinai Hospital Medical CenterSinai Health System	$165,000
Hebrew Theological College	$150,125
Shalva	$143,419
Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County	$125,000
CJE SeniorLife	$120,113
Ida Crown Jewish Academy	$100,000
Arie Crown Hebrew Day School	$100,000
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces	$65,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $7.6M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$20M · 36 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$20M

$4.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%

Still filing today

78%

77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $391k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesEducationReligionHealthArts & CultureOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
8× · 2017–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +24%
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Jewish Child and Family Services
8× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +43%
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Jewish Community Centers of Chicago
8× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +20%

Funded once

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AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
one grant, 2024 · $2.1M · revenue 0%
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The Quad Project Inc
one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · 49% of their budget
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AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC
one grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue 0%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Sherit Isroel

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University of Judaism Foundation

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The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education

Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International

Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida

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Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation

Philanthropy

Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas)

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Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

Dorot Foundation

Philanthropy

The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc

Religion

Friends of Institute for Zionist

The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Project Aid & Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 89 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

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Grantees still filing

40/73

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$692,194,033International$9,870,509Human Services$7,606,279Other$4,828,618Health$1,344,389Civil Rights$1,000,000Religion$420,782

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 ChicagoIL62.1× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home