· Public charity
Robert L and Sylvia M Haag Foundation
The Foundation was organized to foster, promote, support, develop, and maintain the broad, charitable, educational or religious purposes or functions as authorized by the charter of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and the by-laws of the Foundation.
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98% of Robert L and Sylvia M Haag Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Metropolitan Chicago, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago | $1,425,190 |
| Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc | $18,000 |
| Council for Jewish Elderly | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
4 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. 4 of the 5 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert L and Sylvia M Haag Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert L and Sylvia M Haag Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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