· Private foundation
Marvin and Kay Lichtman 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.
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 |
|---|---|
| THE ARK OF CHICAGO | $22,000 |
| MISERICORDIA HEART OF MERCY | $22,000 |
| ZACHARIAS CENTER | $22,000 |
| ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $22,000 |
| THE CRADLE FOUNDATION | $22,000 |
| HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION | $22,000 |
| ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $22,000 |
| A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION | $22,000 |
| CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT | $22,000 |
| LAMBS FARM | $22,000 |
| KESHET | $22,000 |
| MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES | $17,000 |
| SECOND SENSE | $17,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $591k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +43% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ECELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $212k · revenue +54%
- KKESHET9× · 2017–2025 · $194k · revenue +105%
- TCThe Cradle Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $194k · 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
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.
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.
The child study center (csc) provides children with complex developmental and behavioral disabilities the highest quality diagnosis, treatment and education to help them achieve their full potential.
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…
To provide the highest quality care to improve the lives of children with orthopedic and related conditions and specific learning disabilities. texas scottish rite hospital for children focuses on patient care, research and education.
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…
To provide expert, comprehensive services that strengthen children, adults and families impacted by abuse and neglect, autism, developmental, behavioral and physical health challenges so they can achieve whole health, well-being and…
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.
Start early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap.
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,…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 25 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 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 SECOND SENSE ↗
- Who funds MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marvin and Kay Lichtman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marvin and Kay Lichtman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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