· Private foundation
Marvin and Kay Lichtman 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CRADLE FOUNDATION | $22,000 |
| KESHET | $22,000 |
| CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT | $22,000 |
| ZACHARIAS CENTER | $22,000 |
| THE ARK OF CHICAGO | $22,000 |
| LAMBS FARM | $22,000 |
| ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $22,000 |
| MISERICORDIA HEART OF MERCY | $22,000 |
| A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION | $22,000 |
| ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $22,000 |
| HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION | $22,000 |
| SECOND SENSE | $17,000 |
| MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES | $17,000 |
| LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $518k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ECELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +54%
- KKESHET8× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue +105%
- TCThe Cradle Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue +41%
Funded once
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $33k · revenue +74%- FSFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +15%
- SVST VINCENT DEPAUL CENTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.
Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.
The center's mission is to help children and adults with differing abilities achieve their dreams by overcoming barriers to living, working, learning & enjoying recreational opportunities in the community of their choice.
Keswick school was founded in 1963 as little keswick school by bob and libby wilson, two local public school teachers who started the school on their 25 acre farm (little keswick farm) outside of charlottesville, va. initially a summer…
The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
Amid the proliferation of advice about treatment options for autism, the ability to access accurate information about research-validated approaches is critically important to those seeking effective treatment.
We help advance the independence of individuals with disabilities & other special needs.
Start early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap.
The hope learning academy serves children with intellectual/developmental disabilities and neurological disorders and their families by providing homes in which to grow, schools in which to learn, clinics in which to become healthier,…
The mission of the new york institute for special education is to provide quality educational programs and support to students and families in a safe caring environment to awaken and inspire student curiosity, lifelong learning and…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little City Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 25 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 ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
- Who funds The Cradle Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE LAMBS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds SECOND SENSE ↗
- Who funds MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
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: Mark Morton Memorial Fund · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · The Chicago Community Trust · The Service Club of Chicago · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Marvin and Kay Lichtman 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.
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