· Private foundation
JS Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| National Geographic Society | $79,500 |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $20,000 |
| Mayo Foundation | $10,000 |
| Santa Fe Opera | $5,000 |
| Solti Foundation | $5,000 |
| Alliance Francais de Chicago | $5,000 |
| The Field Museum | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| COFAM | $2,250 |
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $2,000 |
| Lincoln Park Zoo | $2,000 |
| Eisenhower Foundation | $2,000 |
| Grafenegg International Council | $2,000 |
| Classical Music Chicago | $1,500 |
| Ingenuity | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSChicago Symphony Orchestra9× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +58%
- NGNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +11%
- TSTHE SANTA FE OPERA9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- YFYERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -8%
- FAFitzjohn Adamson Wildlife Trustone grant, 2022 · $5k
- GPGREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +309%
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.
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.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
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.
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
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…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
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…
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.
The driehaus museum engages and inspires the global community through exploration and ongoing conversations in art, architecture, and design of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. its permanent collection and temporary…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 60 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen ↗
- Who funds Classical Music Chicago ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds YERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Gorton Community Center ↗
- Who funds MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE ↗
- Who funds GRAFENEGG INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Storycatchers ↗
- Who funds The Eisenhower Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Richard and Mary L Gray Foundation · The Irving Harris Foundation · The Negaunee Foundation · Zell Family Foundation · John H Hart Foundation · Prince Foundation · Alphawood Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization JS Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from JS Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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