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M & J Eisenberg Family Foundation at a glance

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M & J Eisenberg 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.

$14k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$24kCivil Rights$19kArts & Culture$18kPhilanthropy$11kRecreation & Sports$5kHealth$4kSocial Science$3kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$46k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,000
DEAN'S FUND FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–18, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CRADLE FOUNDATION: $100 → 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.
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$56k · 16 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
40

Total granted

$56k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+26%

Still filing today

63%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’22’23’24
EducationCivil RightsPhilanthropyArts & CultureFood & NutritionHuman 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

  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    3× · 2017–2022 · $18k · revenue +116%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +34%
  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    3× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • CP
    COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +11%
  • 2A
    2019 AJC ANNUAL CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • CR
    CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
2
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
University of Illinois Foundation

The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…

Education
7
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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12
American Association of University Women Inc

Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 59 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMARWEN: $7,500 · OtherMARWEN2019 AJC ANNUAL CAMPAIGN: $5,000 · Other2019 AJC ANNUAL CAMPAIGNCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLMID-NORTH ASSOCIATION: $4,000 · OtherMID-NORTH ASSOCIATIONCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3,250 · OtherCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARYFRIENDS OF PRENTICE: $3,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF PRENTICEDEAN'S FUND FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE: $2,500 · OtherJ STREET: $2,000 · Other+34 more: $13,700 · Other+34 moreAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $17,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH CO…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $950 · Civil Rights+1 more: $500 · Civil RightsCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $10,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIB…University of Chicago: $2,500 · EducationUniversity of …Goldie B Wolfe Miller Women Leaders in Real Estate Initiative: $1,458 · EducationGoldie B Wolfe…+2 more: $450 · EducationJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $5,650 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITE…ENCHANTED BACKPACK: $5,450 · PhilanthropyENCHANTED BA…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRI…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,250 · Arts & CultureThe United…+2 more: $400 · Arts & CultureURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $500 · International
Other$55,950Civil Rights$18,950Education$14,408Philanthropy$12,100Arts & Culture$10,650Food & Nutrition$1,000International$500

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 budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $5,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENCHANTED BACKPACK: $5,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PRENTICE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGoldie B Wolfe Miller Women Leaders in Real Estate Initiative: $1,458 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC: $432 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVANSTON TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 202 ED FOUNDATION: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLANDMARKS PRESERVATION COUNCIL OF ILLINOIS: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORICAL ASSOC OF SOUTH HAVEN: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cradle Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chicago Bar Association: $100 over 1y, 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.

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…The Robert Thomas Bob…Jewish Federation of …John D and Catherine …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL20.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 M & J Eisenberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from M & J Eisenberg 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to M & J Eisenberg Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to M & J Eisenberg Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 59 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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