Illinois · Private foundation
Rochman 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.
- $127k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Rochman Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $127k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $220k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $123k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $235k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $111k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $148k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $192k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $139k | 70% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Illinois Foundation | $360,000 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $278,915 | 6 | 0% |
| Medical University of South Carolina Foundation | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $74,660 | 7 | 0% |
| Loyola University Medical Center | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Invest for Kids Inc | $35,200 | 7 | 0% |
| Am Shalom | $33,210 | 8 | n/a |
| Loyola University of Chicago | $26,940 | 4 | 0% |
| Ravinia Festival Association | $26,819 | 7 | 0% |
| Charles M Schwartz Memorial Foundation | $13,500 | 7 | 3% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($309k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rochman Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · Jarvis Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Baird Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Kadens Family Foundation · The Bluhm Family Foundation · Kovler Family Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Rochman Charitable Foundation
- How much does Rochman Charitable Foundation give?
- Rochman Charitable Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $127,440 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rochman Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Health (18%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are Rochman Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Illinois Foundation ($360k), University of Nebraska Foundation ($279k), Medical University of South Carolina Foundation ($75k).
- Does Rochman Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rochman Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rochman Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Jarvis Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Rochman Charitable Foundation based?
- Rochman Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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