· Private foundation
Kurt B Karmin 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $50,000 |
| GI RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BUSINESS | $500 |
| WTTW | $450 |
| AUDUBON | $250 |
| NSCI | $100 |
| NSCI | $100 |
| CHICAGO HTG SOCIETY | $50 |
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 (FY20–21, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 5 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 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 CHICAGO8× · 2017–2025 · $341k · revenue +13%
- CSChicago Symphony Orchestra7× · 2017–2023 · $34k · revenue +58%
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum5× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- EWEVANSTON WILMETTE GOLF ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $13k
- NSNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +6%
- COCITY OF HOPEone grant, 2019 · $5k
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 museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Chm decodes technology - its computing past, digital present, and future impact on humanity.
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
The mission of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is to foster and maintain an organization dedicated to making music consonant with the highest aspirations of the musical art, creating performances and providing educational and training…
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
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Endeavor Health Clinical Operations follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 39 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 Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds TOOLS FOR TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds Music Theatre Works Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
- Who funds Levy Senior Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kurt B Karmin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kurt B Karmin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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