· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $20,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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 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…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 31 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Katz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Katz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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