· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| The Society of Four Arts Inc | $10,000 |
| Northwestern Memorial Foundation | $10,000 |
| Northwestern University - Havey Institute | $10,000 |
| Big Shoulders Fund | $10,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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 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.
How this is measured
79 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. 79 of the 142 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 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 The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Loewenberg Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Loewenberg Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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