· Private foundation
Karen and Jason Sussman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k9 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AM YISREAL CONSERVATIVE CONGREGATION | $18,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $12,500 |
| Northshore Hospitals Foundation | $2,100 |
| THE ARK | $1,800 |
| HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| Cancer Wellness Center | $1,000 |
| COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $500 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $500 |
| WBEZ | $365 |
| PJ LIBRARY | $180 |
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 (FY19–19, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO9× · 2017–2025 · $113k · revenue +13%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +145%- EHEndeavor Health Clinical Operations8× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- AYAm Yisrael Conservative Congregationone grant, 2017 · $25k
- NUNorthshore University HealthSystem Foundationone grant, 2017 · $2k
- SFSt Francis Xavier Churchone grant, 2019 · $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.
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 mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
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Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 58 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 JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds KAREN DOVE CABRAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds ATHELAS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Karen and Jason Sussman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Karen and Jason Sussman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lifebridge Health Inc: 1% of income from government
- Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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