· Private foundation
Loraine Kaufman 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AIDS FOUNDATION OF CHICAGO | $20,000 |
| HOWARD BROWN HEALTH | $10,000 |
| ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY | $5,700 |
| FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| CHI ARTS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THRESHOLDS | $2,500 |
| PORCHLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE | $2,500 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $2,000 |
| TEMPLE SHALOM | $2,000 |
| THE ARK | $2,000 |
| LINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| GDC | $1,000 |
| GOALS INC | $1,000 |
| MARWEN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PILOTS TO THE RESCUE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $3k) 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 +48% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- AFAIDS Foundation of Chicago6× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +50%
- FWFrancis W Parker School6× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +31%
- HBHoward Brown Health Center5× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- UFUS FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CPCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +15%
- JCJEWISH CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES CHICAGOone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
The Chicago History Museum strives to be a destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. Through dynamic exhibitions, tours, programs, digital resources, and special events, the Museum connects people to Chicago's history…
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.
We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…
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 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 chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Contemporary Art and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 83 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 AIDS Foundation of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
- Who funds Howard Brown Health Center ↗
- Who funds Visceral Dance Chicago NFP ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Marwen Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds ChiArts Foundation ↗
- Who funds LYNN SAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
- Who funds Chicago Dance Health Fund ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH JUMP ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds Center on Halsted ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN EMPLOYED ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EDGAR MILLER LEGACY ↗
- Who funds GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
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 · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Metzner Family Foundation · Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Reva and David Logan 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 Loraine Kaufman 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.