· Private foundation
Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k55 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $211k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $143,286 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $67,697 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS HILLEL | $17,000 |
| THE EMBER FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,909 |
| SOCIAL GOOD | $5,775 |
| FRIENDS OF THE IDF | $5,375 |
| SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL | $5,165 |
| STAND WITH US | $5,000 |
| GIVING WHAT WE CAN USA INC | $3,150 |
| CAMERA | $2,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,100 |
| CHICAGO CENTER FOR TORAH & CHESED | $1,900 |
| JEWISH EDUCATION TEAM INC | $1,800 |
| OPENDORMEDIA | $1,800 |
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, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +40% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 18 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO8× · 2017–2024 · $793k · revenue +13%
- TETHE EMBER FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $52k · revenue +21%
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC4× · 2018–2023 · $38k · revenue +274%
Funded once
- HAHILLEL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISone grant, 2021 · $15k
- CJCHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $10k
- CJCHICAGO JEWISH DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -8%
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
The foundation is organized to foster, promote, support, develop, encourage and maintain the broad charitable, educational and/or religious purpose of, the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago, and the foundation as authorized in…
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas). Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 106 of the 202 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE EMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JET - JEWISH EDUCATION TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHELLE ZELL JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 613 NFP ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE NEW LIGHT CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Lev Zahav NFP · Hochberg Family Foundation · Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Elliott and Ronni Charitable Fdn · Charles and M R Shapiro Foundation Inc · Crain-Maling Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation
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 Maury and Nancy Fertig Family 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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