· Private foundation
Louis S and Barbara L Kahn Family 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH SUBURBAN SYNAGOGUE BETH EL | $3,250 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (JNF) | $500 |
| VASCULITUS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ACPMP FOUNDATION | $500 |
| MAOT CHITIM | $480 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $100 |
| CENTER FOR SMALL TOWN JEWISH LIFE | $100 |
| EPHRAIM FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION | $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 (FY18–21, $546) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +59% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.
62 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 55 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $725 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC6× · 2018–2024 · $1k · revenue +81%
- YCYOUTH CELEBRATE DIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $750 · revenue +79%
- NJNECHAMA - JEWISH RESPONSE TO DISASTER5× · 2017–2022 · $704 · revenue +24%
Funded once
- CACHICAGO ASSOCIATION OF SPRING MANUFACTURERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +29%
- CSCASMI SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2021 · $2k
- WWINGSone grant, 2019 · $650
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 jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.
Uja-federation of new york (uja) cares for jews everywhere and new yorkers of all backgrounds, responds to crises close to home and far away, and shapes the jewish future. through strategic grantmaking, uja provides funding and resources…
Juf provides critical resources that bring food, refuge, health care, education and emergency assistance to over 500,000 chicagoans of all faiths and millions of jews in israel and around the world, funding a network of 100+ agencies,…
The principal function of uia is to administer and supervise the funds allocated for philanthropic purposes related to immigration and absorption of humanitarian migrants to israel and jewish identity programs in israel and the former…
To promote partnership and coexistence among jewish and arab citizens of israel by providing support for integrated schools and providing funding for and assisting in program development in connection with israeli nonprofits with similar…
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…
How this is measured
52 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. 52 of the 110 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 CHICAGO ASSOCIATION OF SPRING MANUFACTURERS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds MAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CELEBRATE DIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NECHAMA - JEWISH RESPONSE TO DISASTER ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY ↗
- Who funds Lake County Partners In Aging ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Louis S and Barbara L Kahn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis S and Barbara L Kahn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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