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Loewenberg Charitable 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $229k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $405k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago | $181,722 |
| Jewish United Fund | $100,000 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago | $70,250 |
| amfAR The Foundation for AIDS Research | $53,000 |
| Aspen Institute | $46,000 |
| Aspen Art Museum | $34,450 |
| The Everglades Foundation | $26,800 |
| Norton Museum of Art | $25,000 |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $22,000 |
| Anderson Ranch Arts Center | $19,600 |
| The Field Museum | $15,000 |
| Northwestern University - Havey Institute | $10,000 |
| Big Shoulders Fund | $10,000 |
| Northwestern Memorial Foundation | $10,000 |
| The Society of Four Arts Inc | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $102k) 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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO4× · 2021–2024 · $555k · revenue +33%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO6× · 2019–2024 · $427k · revenue +23%
- MOMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART6× · 2018–2024 · $322k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- FJFao Jewish United Fundone grant, 2020 · $150k
- OWOperation White Storkone grant, 2023 · $51k
- TCTHE CHICAGO CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -79%
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 organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
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.
The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
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.
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Theatre Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is Enchanted Backpack. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
79 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. 79 of the 142 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 JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY PIER INC ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Chicago Cubs Charities ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS ↗
- Who funds 626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · Arkes Family Foundation · Lavin Family Foundation · Terra Foundation for American Art · Robert R McCormick 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 Loewenberg Charitable 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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