· Private foundation
Peggy and Steve Fossett Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $570k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $796k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ARK | $141,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN CHICAGO | $105,000 |
| ARIE CROWN HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| CHICAGO AREA COUNCIL BSA | $100,000 |
| ADLER PLANETARIUM | $100,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FLIGHT | $100,000 |
| SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA | $50,000 |
| ONE LOVE GLOBAL WELLNESS FOUNDATION | $46,000 |
| CASA LAKE COUNTY | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $36,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS CHICAGO | $35,000 |
| NOURSHING HOPE | $35,000 |
| BRENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $320k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
56 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MOMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +307%
- TATHE ADLER PLANETARIUM6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +38%
- WOWINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SPACE MUSEUM6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- CMCHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGNgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +65%
- SLST LINUS SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $20k
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND EMERGENCY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $18k
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 create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
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…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
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.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…
To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.
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 organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…
Mount sinai is committed to the advancement of the art and science of medicine through clinical excellence. the central mission consists of high-quality patient care and teaching conducted in an atmosphere of social concern and scholarly…
Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 73 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 MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ADLER PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SPACE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HATZALAH CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ONE LOVE GLOBAL WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Webster University ↗
- Who funds SWIFT OUTDOOR ACCESSIBLE RECREATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHESED FUND ↗
- Who funds Park Lawn Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WILDWOOD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Pat Mac's Pack Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGN ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation · Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation · Bitton Family Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Weiner-Marc Foundation · Noah Wolff Family Foundation Inc · Elliott and Ronni Charitable Fdn · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Walder Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Peggy and Steve Fossett Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peggy and Steve Fossett Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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