· Private foundation
Pogrund Family 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 $10k9 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $115,000 |
| ASSOCIATED TALMUD TORAH OF CHGO | $50,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $25,000 |
| THE ARK | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HADDASAH | $5,000 |
| HILLEL TORAH DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| JEWISH LEARNING FUND | $5,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| CHICAGO LOOP SYNAGOGUE | $500 |
| VARIOUS 250 | $125 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its 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 +53% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM3× · 2021–2024 · $220k · revenue +117%
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO6× · 2017–2024 · $139k · revenue +13%
- KJKEHILLAH JEWISH EDUCATION FUND3× · 2017–2019 · $8k · revenue +179%
Funded once
- MDMAGEN DAVID ADOM-MIDWEST REGIONone grant, 2019 · $100k
- SSSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOLDone grant, 2019 · $20k
- ICISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +27%
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 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…
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…
To raise and distribute funds, goods, food, and assistance to the poverty-stricken in the jewish community.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
Federation amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place for everyone. we assist people in need, impact chicagoans of all faiths; support israel and the jewish people worldwide; respond swiftly to crises; cultivate…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds LEGACY LAW SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KEHILLAH JEWISH EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds MAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS 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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pogrund Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pogrund Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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