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Judd a and Marjorie Weinberg Family Foundation at a glance

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Judd a and Marjorie Weinberg Family Foundation

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.

$250k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$701kArts & Culture$179kSocial Science$100kCommunity Improvement$67kReligion$54kRecreation & Sports$53kCivil Rights$43kEducation$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH UNITED FUND$250,000
02The need
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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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%CJE SENIORLIFE: $10k → 14%CJE SENIORLIFE: $10k → 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

IL
NY
OH
CA
MO
DC
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Judd a and Marjorie Weinberg Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 61%.

Judd a and Marjorie Weinberg Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 22% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 23 repeat orgs$206k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
49

Total granted

$1.2M
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+19%

Still filing today

48%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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 · $700k · revenue +13%
  • TB
    THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $100k · revenue +11%
  • TT
    TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $55k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $66k · revenue +398%
  • Northwestern Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +34%
  • DR
    DANCE READY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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.

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True Chicago
Arts & Culture
2
Chicago Theatre Group Inc

The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…

Arts & Culture
3
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
4
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
5
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
6
Chicago Humanities Festival

To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
7
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

The Jewish Council on Urban Affair's (JCUA) longstanding mission is to combat poverty, racism and antisemitism working in partnership with diverse communities. JCUA uses a community organizing model to engage the Jewish community in the…

Community Improvement
8
The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education
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
Chicago International Film Festival Inc Cinema-Chicago

Cinema/Chicago, the non-profit 501(c)(3) presenting organization of the Chicago International Film Festival, enriches the community through year-round programming devoted to international and independent cinema. We strengthen communication…

Arts & Culture
11
Music and Dance Theater Chicago Inc
Arts & Culture
12
Chicago Cultural Alliance

The Chicago Cultural Alliances mission is to connect, promote, and support centers of cultural heritage for a more inclusive Chicago. We are an active consortium of 50 cultural heritage museums, centers, and historical societies that…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc; the most unlike its peers is World Federation of Ballroom Dancers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/40
Grantees still filing
31/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $700,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGOTHE COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION: $66,000 · OtherTHE COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATIO…UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $45,000 · OtherUNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMOR…Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $17,200 · OtherANSHE SHOLOM BNAI ISRAEL: $15,496 · OtherLA RABIDA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherCOSTUME COUNCILCHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM: $13,500 · OtherCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $20,000 · OtherCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY+43 more: $127,790 · Other+43 moreTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $100,000 · Social ScienceTIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY: $55,000 · Arts & CultureGINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP: $14,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $8,750 · Arts & CultureNorthwestern University: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP KIDS ARE KIDS CHICAGO: $18,000 · Recreation & SportsCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsLEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE INC: $20,500 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $15,500 · EducationILAN RAMON DAY SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationBRIDGES PARENT ADVISORY COUNCIL INC: $3,000 · EducationTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $2,500 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $42,500 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$700,000Other$359,986Social Science$100,000Arts & Culture$77,750Recreation & Sports$49,000Education$46,500Civil Rights$42,500

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: $700,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION: $66,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY: $55,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $42,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE INC: $20,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP KIDS ARE KIDS CHICAGO: $18,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP: $14,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetDELEGATION OF JEWISH AMERICAN STUDENTS (DOJAS): $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGUS GIORDANO'S JAZZ DANCE CHICAGO INC D/B/A GIORDANO DANCE CHICAGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetILAN RAMON DAY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $4,890 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAPPINESS CLUB: $3,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBRIDGES PARENT ADVISORY COUNCIL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaptain Planet Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAudience Architects NFP dba See Chicago Dance: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUTH IN ACCOUNTING: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS EVENTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Dance Health Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS CHICAGO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetApparel Industry Board Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE EMBER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLatinos Progresando: $750 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.

Richard and Diane Wei…Jewish Federation of …Arie and Ida Crown Me…The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Jarvis FoundationThe Service Club of C…Polk Bros Foundation …Circle of Service Fou…AbbVie FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Jewish Communal Fund
Richard and Diane Weinberg Family FoundationIL36.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Richard and Diane Weinberg Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jarvis Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund

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 Judd a and Marjorie Weinberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Judd a and Marjorie Weinberg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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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    Find your warmest path to Judd a and Marjorie Weinberg 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 72 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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