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Lubetkin Family Foundation at a glance

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Lubetkin 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.

$62k
Granted FY2023
20
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$44kHealth$38kEnvironment$33kCrime & Legal$32kRecreation & Sports$25kEducation$20kFood & Nutrition$11kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2023 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $48,019, the rows itemized in this filing. The $61,581 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,562 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k19 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$765k
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 95% of reported assets are held in Berkshire Hathaway Class B.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The People's Music School, Inc$15,000
Mather Cross Country Booster Club$8,830
Land Institute$5,000
Nora Eccles Museum of Art$5,000
Fenix Family Health Center$3,000
Old Town School of Folk Music$2,500
Planned Parenthood$2,000
Greater Chicago Food Depository$1,500
Night Ministry$1,500
Crossroads Fund$1,000
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless$500
Connection for Abuses Women$500
WBEZ$365
Working in the Schools$250
WTTW$250
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 11%THE FOOD DEPOT: $3k → 12%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $1k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $250 → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $250 → 14%CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $1k → 14%CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $1k → 14%CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
NM
KS
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$214k · 37 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2023, 26 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
37

Total granted

$214k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+21%

Still filing today

62%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalInternationalHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $27k · revenue +77%
  • TP
    The People's Music School
    4× · 2020–2023 · $26k · revenue +126%
  • TL
    The Land Institute
    4× · 2020–2023 · $14k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • CC
    CHICAGO COMMUNITY BOND FUND
    3× · 2020–2022 · $5k · revenue -94%
  • NG
    Nehemiah Group dba Chicago Eco Housegraduated
    2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue +308%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
2
The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education
3
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
4
Chicago Sun-Times Media Inc

Chicago sun-times serves the public interest by strengthening the well-being of our local communities and our democracy through independent local journalism.

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5
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
6
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
7
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
8
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce

The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…

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9
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
10
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
11
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
12
Chicago Municipal Employee's Credit Union

To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Horticultural Society; the most unlike its peers is Safehouse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 84 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
33/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MATHER CROSS COUNTRY BOOSTER CLUB: $25,130 · OtherMATHER CROSS COUNTRY BOOSTER CLUBPLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATION: $17,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATIONThe Land Institute: $14,000 · OtherThe Land InstituteIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ILLINOIS: $8,500 · OtherGREENPEACE INC: $7,500 · OtherGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $7,270 · OtherCURT'S CAFE: $5,350 · Other+51 more: $65,198 · Other+51 moreThe People's Music School: $25,750 · Arts & CultureThe People's …OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureOLD TOWN SCHO…WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $1,100 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $300 · Arts & CultureSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $27,000 · Crime & LegalSANDY HOOK PR…CHICAGO COMMUNITY BOND FUND: $5,000 · Crime & LegalCHICAGO COMMU…+1 more: $100 · Crime & LegalFenix Family Health Center: $8,000 · HealthTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $5,000 · HealthSAFEHOUSE: $3,500 · Health+3 more: $382 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 · International+1 more: $100 · InternationalLake Forest College: $3,500 · EducationWaukegan To College NFP: $3,500 · EducationOberlin College: $2,500 · EducationWORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $600 · Education+2 more: $310 · EducationTHE FOOD DEPOT: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $3,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $3,000 · Human Services
Other$159,948Arts & Culture$32,650Crime & Legal$32,100Health$16,882International$10,600Education$10,410Human Services$9,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe People's Music School: $25,750 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Land Institute: $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ILLINOIS: $8,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFenix Family Health Center: $8,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGREENPEACE INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $7,270 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCURT'S CAFE: $5,350 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO COMMUNITY BOND FUND: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNehemiah Group dba Chicago Eco House: $5,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCROSSROADS FUND INC: $4,330 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAFEHOUSE: $3,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLake Forest College: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWaukegan To College NFP: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOberlin College: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $1,324 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDHAVEN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Council on Urban Affairs: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetART AND NATURE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $449 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GREEN BAY TRAIL: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWriters Theatre Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLITERATURE FOR ALL OF US: $250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNSELING CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetA JUST HARVEST: $232 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEVAIA FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH OUTLOOK: $100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $50 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The People's Music School ↗
  • Who funds The Land Institute ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds Fenix Family Health Center ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds CURT'S CAFE ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO COMMUNITY BOND FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP ↗
  • Who funds Nehemiah Group dba Chicago Eco House ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFEHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Lake Forest College ↗
  • Who funds Waukegan To College NFP ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
  • Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Oberlin College ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
  • Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗

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.

The Chicago Community…Circle of Service Fou…AbbVie FoundationChicago Foundation fo…John D and Catherine …The Irving Harris Fou…Lloyd a Fry FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …Jewish Federation of …Joseph & Bessie Feinb…Vivo FoundationJulian Grace Foundati…
The Chicago Community TrustIL24.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Irving Harris Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation · Vivo Foundation · Julian Grace Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lubetkin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lubetkin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 84 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $138k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home