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Kaufman Family Foundation at a glance

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Kaufman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$701k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$104k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$699kPhilanthropy$351kEducation$340kEnvironment$263kRecreation & Sports$255kHealth$177kReligion$161kCivil Rights$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $285k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $392k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$104,000
TEMPLE JEREMIAH$100,000
OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC$87,500
NEW TRIER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$50,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$50,000
CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA$30,000
WILD MONTANA$25,000
GVLT$25,000
JEWISH UNITED FUND (JUF)$25,000
EQUAL HOPE$20,000
LOWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$20,000
GLENCOE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$20,000
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$20,000
THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$15,000
ERIE FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS$15,000
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 (FY18–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%BLUE CARD: $3k → 17%Young Center: $5k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $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

WA
MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
WY
PA
CA
KY
MD
KS
TN
DC
AL
TX
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 37 repeat orgs$337k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
36

Total granted

$2.3M
$255k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+24%

Still filing today

65%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthCivil RightsHuman 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

  • OT
    OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $323k · revenue +14%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $255k · revenue +0%
  • CS
    Chicago Symphony Orchestra
    3× · 2023–2025 · $190k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $38k
  • CF
    CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +39%
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
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
2
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
3
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
University of Illinois Foundation

The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…

Education
6
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
11
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
12
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Osi Group Foundation. 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

47 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. 47 of the 80 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
35/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $228,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONTEMPLE JEREMIAH: $130,000 · OtherTEMPLE JEREMIAHJEWISH UNITED FUND (JUF): $85,000 · OtherJEWISH UNITED FUND (JUF)GVLT: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $37,500 · OtherWILD MONTANA: $35,000 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $35,000 · Other+40 more: $398,585 · Other+40 moreOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC: $322,500 · Arts & CultureOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUS…Chicago Symphony Orchestra: $190,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony OrchestraCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC+4 more: $48,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreUniversity of Chicago: $170,000 · EducationUniversity …NEW TRIER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationNEW TRIER E…THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $39,000 · EducationTHE ART INS…GLENCOE PTO: $12,000 · Education+3 more: $8,000 · EducationCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $255,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PA…GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $120,000 · EnvironmentGREATER Y…OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentOPEN SPAC…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $30,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST…THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $20,000 · EnvironmentTHE MONTA…GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $10,000 · Environment+2 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentEqual Hope: $58,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $40,000 · HealthErie Family Health Foundation Inc: $35,000 · HealthErie Family Health Center Inc: $20,000 · Health+2 more: $10,000 · HealthNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $20,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $10,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,039,085Arts & Culture$641,000Education$279,000Recreation & Sports$255,000Environment$225,000Health$163,500Civil Rights$85,000

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 budgetOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC: $322,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $255,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $190,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $170,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $120,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEqual Hope: $58,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetNEW TRIER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $39,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetErie Family Health Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lowell School: $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHoward Area Community Center: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetErie Family Health Center Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe National Public Housing Museum: $16,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLENCOE PTO: $12,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROSENWALD PARK CAMPAIGN: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUNDO VERDE BILINGUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HOMAN SQUARE F/K/A HOMAN ARTHINGTON FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGHENY LAND TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLUE CARD INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommon Good City Farm: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Charles H and Beverly…The Kellcie FundLloyd a Fry FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …Circle of Service Fou…Jewish Federation of …AbbVie FoundationBaird Foundation IncGs Donor Advised Phil…The Bank of America C…
The Chicago Community TrustIL16.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Charles H and Beverly E Shaw Foundation · The Kellcie Fund · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · AbbVie Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Kaufman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kaufman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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
    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 80 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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