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June Friedlob Kate Friedlob & June Friedlob Heller Foundation at a glance

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June Friedlob Kate Friedlob & June Friedlob Heller Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Arts & Culture$324kReligion$105kRecreation & Sports$23kHousing & Shelter$13kEducation$3kCommunity Improvement$3kFood & Nutrition$2k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$171k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SECOND UNITARIAN CHURCH OF CHICAGO$6,500
CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC DBA GOODMAN THEATRE$5,000
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 (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $3k → 12%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$441k · 5 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$441k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+30%

Still filing today

60%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • KM
    KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART
    8× · 2017–2024 · $290k · revenue +41%
  • SU
    SECOND UNITARIAN CHURCH OF CHICAGO
    5× · 2021–2025 · $102k
  • CT
    CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE RESTORATION HOUSE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -24%
  • TO
    Tennis Opportunity Program Incorporatedgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +53% · 35% of their budget
  • TL
    THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +24%
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
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
2
Covenant House Chicago
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3
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
4
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
5
Children's Museum of Oak Park

To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.

Arts & Culture
6
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
7
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
8
Chicago Shakespeare Theater

To create vivid, entertaining theatrical experiences that invigorate and engage people of all ages and identities by illuminating the complexity, ambiguity, and wonder of our world. shared humanity and unforgettable stories - now this is…

Arts & Culture
9
Chicago Municipal Employee's Credit Union

To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…

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10
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Theatre Group Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Restoration House. 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART: $290,000 · Arts & CultureKNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $28,500 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC+1 more: $5,500 · Arts & CultureSECOND UNITARIAN CHURCH OF CHICAGO: $101,500 · OtherSECOND UNITARIAN CHURCH OF C…TOP TENNIS PROGRAM: $15,000 · OtherTOP TENNIS PROGRAM+2 more: $3,500 · OtherTHE RESTORATION HOUSE: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTennis Opportunity Program Incorporated: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $3,000 · EducationKNOXVILLE JEWISH ALLIANCE INC: $3,000 · EducationTHE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $2,500 · Human ServicesGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$324,000Other$120,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Recreation & Sports$7,500Education$6,000Human Services$2,500Food & Nutrition$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART: $290,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $28,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTennis Opportunity Program Incorporated: $7,500 over 1y, 35% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKNOXVILLE JEWISH ALLIANCE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 June Friedlob Kate Friedlob & June Friedlob Heller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from June Friedlob Kate Friedlob & June Friedlob Heller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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.

    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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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