· Private foundation
Michael Gidwitz Charitable 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NEW EYES FOR THE NEEDY | $10,000 |
| WHEELCHAIR FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BROTHER RICE HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| HADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $6,000 |
| ST GERMAIN SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION CO KEYSER FAMILY PEDIATRIC CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MAYO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS | $5,000 |
| PAWS CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| MARION TREE OF ST GERMAINE | $4,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN CHICAGO | $4,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| GASTRO-INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +44% since the first grant, against -31% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NENew Eyes for the Needy Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +44%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +12%
- PCPAWS CHICAGO9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +163%
Funded once
- TCTHE CURE IT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $5k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2022 · $2k
- JMJohn McNicholas Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundationone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -92%
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.
To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.
Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…
Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
We are dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for the northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a leader in: -pediatric health care delivery…
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
To make all childhood cancers universally survivable by delivering new treatments to clinical trials through scientific discovery.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To prevail over cancer, marshaling heart and mind in bold scientific discovery, pioneering prevention and compassionate care.
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
To optimize philanthropy in support of the mission and future of the children's hospital of chicago medical center.
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 44 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 New Eyes for the Needy Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds HADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds TREE HOUSE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds GASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CURE IT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds LA CACCINA ↗
- Who funds John McNicholas Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation ↗
- Who funds WEST ISLIP BREAST CANCER COALITION FOR LONG ISLAND INC ↗
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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Michael Gidwitz Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael Gidwitz Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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