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Jmr Charities Inc

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.

$509k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.1MEducation$613kHuman Services$231kRecreation & Sports$111kYouth Development$41kArts & Culture$36kAnimals$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $453k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$29k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$200,000
JEWISH UNITED FUND$100,000
BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE$100,000
VARIOUS MISC CHARITIES$53,449
PENTAGON FEDERAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION$20,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
HAYMARKET CENTER$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$5,000
THE LEFTY CLASSIC$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–23, $181k) 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.

area typical 10%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%CHICAGO WHITE SOX CHARITIES: $175k → 14%CHICAGO WHITE SOX CHARITIES: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
CA
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 20 repeat orgs$390k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
22

Total granted

$3.5M
$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+12%

Still filing today

60%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    4× · 2020–2024 · $400k · revenue +13%
  • PC
    Phoenix Children's Hospital
    3× · 2020–2022 · $226k · revenue +47%
  • CW
    Chicago White Sox Charities Inc
    2× · 2020–2023 · $176k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • NB
    NAISMATH BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +33%
  • AD
    ARF DBA ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +4%
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.

1
The Goldman Sachs Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
The Richard H Driehaus Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
5
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
6
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
7
The Janus Henderson Foundation
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8
Harold E Eisenberg Foundation

The foundation's objective is to fund breakthrough gastrointestinal (gi) cancer research, including clinical trials and studies, at the robert h. lurie comprehensive cancer center of northwestern university.additionally, another objective…

Philanthropy
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
The Steinman Foundation
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11
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…

Health
12
The Goldstein Family Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

28 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. 28 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL: $400,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOLMAYO CLINIC: $400,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICBARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $310,000 · OtherBARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTEVARIOUS MISC CHARITIES: $171,349 · OtherVARIOUS MISC CHARITIES+21 more: $327,000 · Other+21 moreSTAND UP TO CANCER: $600,000 · PhilanthropySTAND UP TO CANCERChicago Bulls Charities: $500,000 · PhilanthropyChicago Bulls CharitiesJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $400,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGOPhoenix Children's Hospital: $226,499 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,000 · HealthGrace Sober Living: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $6,000 · HealthUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $200,000 · EducationJESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD: $10,000 · EducationGoldie B Wolfe Miller Women Leaders in Real Estate Initiative: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $3,000 · EducationChicago White Sox Charities Inc: $176,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesThe Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $30,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,608,349Philanthropy$1,500,000Health$267,499Education$223,000Human Services$181,000Recreation & Sports$40,000Arts & Culture$36,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChicago Bulls Charities: $500,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital: $226,499 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago White Sox Charities Inc: $176,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetMcDermott Center: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARF DBA ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetOFF THE STREET CLUB: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL PARK TRUST INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITIZEN EDUCATION FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGrace Sober Living: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGoldie B Wolfe Miller Women Leaders in Real Estate Initiative: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLEFTY CLASSIC INC: $6,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECTRIOS INSTITUTE FOR LOW VISION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROFESSIONAL BASEBALL SCOUTS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Robert R McCormick Fo…The Robert Thomas Bob…Jewish Federation of …Major League Baseball…The Ayco Charitable F…The Chicago Community…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
Robert R McCormick FoundationIL19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Major League Baseball Charities Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Jmr Charities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jmr Charities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 51%
  • National Park Trust Inc: 51% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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How do I get to Jmr Charities Inc?

Find your warmest path to Jmr Charities Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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