How much does Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation give?

Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $299,861 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (59%), Religion (13%), Education (9%).

Who are Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($793k), The Ember Foundation ($52k), Friends of United Hatzalah Inc ($38k).

Does Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Lev Zahav NFP, Hochberg Family Foundation.

Where is Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation based?

Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation is based in IL.

Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation

Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$300k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$143k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.1MReligion$240kEducation$161kInternational$70kArts & Culture$61kYouth Development$23kHealth$18kRecreation & Sports$13kOther$0

02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k55 grants · $72k
$10k–50k1 grant · $17k
$50k–250k2 grants · $211k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$1.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
OPENDORMEDIA	$1,800
JEWISH EDUCATION TEAM INC	$1,800

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.7M · 85 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.7M

$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+20%

Still filing today

54%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionOther

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

JU
JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
8× · 2017–2024 · $793k · revenue +13%
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THE EMBER FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2024 · $52k · revenue +21%
FO
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
4× · 2018–2023 · $38k · revenue +274%

Funded once

HA
HILLEL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
one grant, 2021 · $15k
CJ
CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY
one grant, 2019 · $10k
CJ
CHICAGO JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -8%

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.

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

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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Minneapolis Jewish Federation

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.

Philanthropy

The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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University of Judaism Foundation

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American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International

Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

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…

Philanthropy

Leonard and Diane Sherman Family Foundation

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…

Philanthropy

The Jewish Fund

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…

Philanthropy

Us Middle East Project Inc

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…

International

American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education

Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

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.

Civil Rights

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

105/106

Grantees still filing

75/106

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$800,331Other$695,574Religion$92,201Education$89,253International$59,174Arts & Culture$53,973Community Improvement$24,950

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL49× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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