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Katz 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
18 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- DCDEKALB COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue -22%
- CBCONGREGATION BETH SHALOM5× · 2017–2024 · $45k
- COCITY OF SYCAMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT4× · 2017–2020 · $23k
Funded once
- FTFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -15%
- CDCASA DeKalb County Incone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +14%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +78%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The decalogue society of lawyers, founded in 1934, is the nation's oldest jewish bar association. its mission is to advance lawyers' professional development, raise the standards of the bar and bench, educate the public on legal and jewish…
Prevent/intervene in child abuse situations
To build community while increasing food security through growing and providing ready access to fresh, nutritious local produce for dekalb county, illinois residents.
To support and enhance the dekalb county public library service, including support for literacy programs, children's reading programs, and georgia center for the book.
Responds to community needs with compassionate, Christ-centered programs and services
Leadership dekalb convenes current and emerging leaders from diverse backgrounds, informs them about vital issues for a thriving and forward- looking dekalb county, and engages them to lead in ways that improve quality of life for all who…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Illinois Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
- Who funds CASA DeKalb County Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds DeKalb County History Center ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Kishwaukee United Way ↗
- Who funds KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Dekalb County Community Foundation · Ideal Industries Foundation · Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts Family Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Me Stevens-Acct A-Church Fund Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · The Chicago Community Trust · George E& Betty Bdutton Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Katz Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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