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Jrm Family Foundation at a glance

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Jrm Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.5M
Granted FY2026still arriving
8
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$463k
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, FY2017 to 2026.

Arts & Culture$362kPhilanthropy$348kInternational$173kHealth$26kReligion$6kOther$0
02FY2026 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • $50k–250k6 grants · $627k
  • $250k+2 grants · $896k
$106,640
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$462,720
Individual grant recipient$433,735
JEWISH UNITED FUND$213,281
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO$106,640
FRIENDS OF THE IDF$106,640
JEWISH UNITED FUND$100,000
FRIENDS OF THE IDF$50,000
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO$50,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $16k → 17%ST JUDES CHILDREN RESEARCH: $100 → 17%AARP FOUNDATION: $100 → 15%LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100 → 14%FRIENDS OF THE IDF: $107k → 17%SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION: $200 → 14%FRIENDS OF THE IDF: $50k → 17%CINEMA CHICAGO: $46k → 14%CINEMA CHICAGO: $45k → 14%CINEMA CHICAGO: $30k → 14%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $3k → 14%SOCIETY OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $2k → 14%THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $2k → 14%CHI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $2k → 14%CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $2k → 14%SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $1k → 14%SOCIETY OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $1k → 14%CURE VIOLENCE: $1k → 14%ARIEL TOWERS DAF: $463k → 14%AM SHALOM: $3k → 14%AM SHALOM: $3k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $5k → 14%ARTS CLUB OF CHICAGO: $850 → 14%GLENKICK FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%THE ARTS CLUB OF CHICAGO: $825 → 14%GLENKICK FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%ARTS CLUB OF CHICAGO: $300 → 14%GLENKIRK FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%HARVEY SCHAFFNER DAF: $434k → 14%ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $10k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION: $10k → 14%ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $10k → 14%JEWISH UNITED FUND: $213k → 14%LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO: $107k → 14%JEWISH UNITED FUND: $100k → 14%LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO: $50k → 14%LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO: $25k → 14%JEWISH UNITED FUND: $20k → 14%LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO: $10k → 14%ART ENCOUNTER: $500 → 14%ART ENCOUNTER: $500 → 14%ART ENCOUNTER: $250 → 14%CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 14%GOODMAN THEATRE: $1k → 14%GOODMAN THEATRE: $200 → 14%HAVE DREAMS: $10k → 14%HAVE DREAMS: $10k → 14%HAVE DREAMS: $5k → 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.
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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$898k · 14 repeat orgs$916k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2026, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$898k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+130%

Still filing today

79%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $896k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’26
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyInternationalEmploymentEducationOther
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
    2× · 2018–2026 · $333k · revenue +34%
  • LO
    Lyric Opera of Chicago
    3× · 2018–2026 · $192k · revenue +31%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    2× · 2017–2026 · $173k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +21%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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
Chamber Opera of Chicago
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2
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
3
Music and Dance Theater Chicago Inc
Arts & Culture
4
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
5
Chicago Art Department

Cultivates new and emerging Chicago artists, and aims to benefit artists by exploring art and learning. Through exhibitions, artist residencies, classes/workshops and community building, we are dedicated to cultivating new voices, ideas,…

Arts & Culture
6
Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc

The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…

Arts & Culture
7
Design Museum of Chicago

The Design Museum of Chicago strives to inspire, educate and innovate through design. As a resource for the Chicago design community and beyond, the museum facilitates an open dialogue about contemporary and historical design through…

Arts & Culture
8
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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9
The Chicago High School for the Arts

The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…

Education
10
Classical Music Chicago

Presenting free high-quality classical music performances and music education experiences in the Chicago metropolitan area for people of all ages and degrees of musical awareness so they can experience how music enriches life.

Arts & Culture
11
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
12
Chicago Historical Society

The Chicago History Museum strives to be a destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. Through dynamic exhibitions, tours, programs, digital resources, and special events, the Museum connects people to Chicago's history…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Theatre Group Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 27 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
14/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $462,720 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $433,735 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+11 more: $45,300 · OtherLyric Opera of Chicago: $191,640 · Arts & CultureLyric Opera of Chica…Chicago International Film Festival Inc Cinema-Chicago: $120,500 · Arts & CultureChicago Internationa…Chicago Symphony Orchestra: $11,500 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $12,275 · Arts & CultureJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $333,281 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND O…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $172,640 · InternationalFRIENDS OF…HAVE DREAMS: $25,000 · EmploymentTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $4,580 · EducationTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $100 · HealthLEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100 · Health
Other$941,755Arts & Culture$335,915Philanthropy$333,281International$172,640Employment$25,000Education$4,580Health$200

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 budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $333,281 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $191,640 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $172,640 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChicago International Film Festival Inc Cinema-Chicago: $120,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetHAVE DREAMS: $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $4,580 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSociety for Contemporary Art C-O The Art Institute of Chicago: $4,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Arts Club of Chicago: $1,975 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWriters Theatre Inc: $100 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Jrm Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jrm Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Jrm Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jrm Family Foundation 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 27 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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