· Private foundation
Maurice & Henry Freund Charitable 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k60 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $30,000 |
| LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $15,350 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO SINAI CONGREGATION | $8,226 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| PAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE | $5,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $5,000 |
| IL HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUC CTR (ILHMEC) | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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
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.
85 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 17 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EMEisenhower Medical Center6× · 2017–2023 · $166k · revenue +94%
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +13%
- PSPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM6× · 2017–2023 · $42k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $80k
- TITEMPLE ISAIAHone grant, 2017 · $5k
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICESone grant, 2020 · $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.
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 chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
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…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
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…
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,…
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
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.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
The Chicago History Museum strives to be a destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. Through dynamic exhibitions, tours, programs, digital resources, and special events, the Museum connects people to Chicago's history…
How this is measured
92 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. 92 of the 184 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 Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Inland Empire Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE MALALA FUND ↗
- Who funds CAMP NEBAGAMON ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
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: Impact Grants Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · WP & HB White Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · AbbVie Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Reva and David Logan Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Maurice & Henry Freund Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maurice & Henry Freund Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Maurice & Henry Freund Charitable Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Maurice & Henry Freund Charitable 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.
Play a game based on Maurice & Henry Freund’s filings →