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Kohn & Mitchell Family Foundation at a glance

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Kohn & Mitchell Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$668k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$204k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% 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$1.9MHealth$1.9MEducation$462kRecreation & Sports$444kPhilanthropy$232kReligion$46kYouth Development$34kCivil Rights$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $505k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUF OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$204,291
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER$100,000
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$75,489
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER$75,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$50,000
JUF OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$38,000
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$21,366
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO$20,000
THE COVE SCHOOL$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER$10,000
BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL$7,000
CHICAGO SINAI CONGREGATION$6,515
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY$5,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Play for PINK: $27k → 17%Northwestern University: $109k → 14%Northwestern University: $50k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $40k → 14%Northwestern University: $40k → 14%Northerwestern Memorial Foundation: $100k → 14%NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $93k → 14%NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $80k → 14%NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%Northwestern Memorial Foundation: $75k → 14%Northwestern Memorial Foundation: $75k → 14%Northwestern Memorial Foundation: $75k → 14%Northwestern Memorial Foundation: $50k → 14%The Cove School: $32k → 14%Northwestern University: $45k → 14%Kohl's Cove School: $25k → 14%Northwestern University: $40k → 14%Kohl's Cove School: $25k → 14%NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $21k → 14%THE COVE SCHOOL: $20k → 14%NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%THE COVE SCHOOL: $20k → 14%THE COVE SCHOOL: $20k → 14%University of Chicago Medical Center: $203k → 14%University of Chicago Medical Center: $200k → 14%University of Chicago Medical Center: $192k → 14%University of Chicago: $214k → 14%University of Chicago Medical Center: $101k → 14%University of Chicago Medical Center: $101k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER: $75k → 14%JUF of Metropolitan Chicago: $220k → 14%JUF OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $204k → 14%JUF of Metropolitan Chicago: $203k → 14%JUF of Metropolitan Chicago: $203k → 14%JUF of Metropolitan Chicago: $202k → 14%JUF OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $200k → 14%JUF OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $199k → 14%JUF of Metropolitan Chicago: $175k → 14%JUF OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $38k → 14%Lyric Opera of Chicago: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER: $75k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER: $75k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER: $21k → 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.
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.
$4.6M · 16 repeat orgs$320k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
5

Total granted

$4.6M
$320k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+22%

Still filing today

63%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthCrime & LegalCivil RightsFood & 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

  • UO
    University of Chicago Medical Center
    7× · 2018–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +88%
  • Northwestern University
    7× · 2019–2025 · $444k · revenue +34%
  • LO
    Lyric Opera of Chicago
    8× · 2018–2025 · $132k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • University of Chicago
    one grant, 2022 · $214k · revenue +22%
  • NM
    Northerwestern Memorial Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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
Loyola University of Chicago

We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.

Education
3
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
4
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
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
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lynn Sage Breast Cancer 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

15 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. 15 of the 23 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JUF of Metropolitan Chicago: $1,654,585 · OtherJUF of Metropolitan ChicagoNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $579,091 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONNortherwestern Memorial Foundation: $100,077 · Other+10 more: $152,540 · Other+10 moreUniversity of Chicago Medical Center: $1,389,021 · HealthUniversity of Chicago Medical C…Northwestern University: $443,763 · Recreation & SportsNorthweste…University of Chicago: $214,102 · EducationUniversit…BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL: $100,000 · EducationBERNARD Z…THE COVE SCHOOL INC: $92,000 · EducationTHE COVE …THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $15,000 · EducationLyric Opera of Chicago: $131,500 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony Orchestra: $16,500 · Arts & CulturePLAY FOR PINK INC: $55,553 · Crime & LegalANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $20,446 · Civil Rights
Other$2,486,293Health$1,389,021Recreation & Sports$443,763Education$421,102Arts & Culture$148,000Crime & Legal$55,553Civil Rights$20,446

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Chicago Medical Center: $1,389,021 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $443,763 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $214,102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $131,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL: $100,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COVE SCHOOL INC: $92,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $55,553 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $20,446 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $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.

  • Who funds University of Chicago Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE COVE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES ↗

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.

Arie and Ida Crown Me…Circle of Service Fou…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Arie and Ida Crown MemorialIL13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Kohn & Mitchell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kohn & Mitchell 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–20%
    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 23 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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