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Rochman Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$695kHealth$259kPhilanthropy$93kArts & Culture$84kReligion$75kHuman Services$67kRecreation & Sports$30kYouth Development$27kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$50,000
CHRON'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$27,500
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION (MUSC)$25,000
JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$6,000
THE GREG OLSEN FOUNDATION$4,250
AM SHALOM$4,250
HOPE CHICAGO$2,000
CHARLES M SCHWARTZ MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$1,500
KIAWAH CARES FOUNDATION$1,250
Individual grant recipient$1,000
BIG SHOULDERS FUND$1,000
SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES$1,000
CHABAD CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE - UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$540
ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$500
THE STREET SMARTS$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $500 → 16%CHRISTMAS COMMANDOS: $1k → 13%CITY KIDS CAMP: $600 → 13%CHRISTMAS COMMANDOS: $750 → 13%HONOR FLIGHT CHICAGO: $4k → 14%CHRISTMAS COMMANDOS: $500 → 13%HONOR FLIGHT CHICAGO: $3k → 14%CHRISTMAS COMMANDOS: $500 → 13%BEACON PLACE: $500 → 8%CHRISTMAS COMMANDOS: $250 → 13%CHRISTMAS COMMANDOS: $100 → 13%BEACON PLACE: $500 → 8%HONOR FLIGHT CHICAGO: $1k → 14%BEACON PLACE: $250 → 8%SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 14%SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 14%SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 14%SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 14%SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 14%SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $1k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $1k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $750 → 14%GLENCOE YOUTH SERVICES: $250 → 14%GLENCOE YOUTH SERVICES: $100 → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS: $8k → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS: $8k → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS: $6k → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS: $5k → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS: $5k → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS: $3k → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS: $1k → 14%COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $350 → 14%COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $350 → 14%COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $250 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
NE
NC
SC
DC
OK
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 65 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
55

Total granted

$1.3M
$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+32%

Still filing today

58%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • University of Illinois Foundation
    7× · 2017–2025 · $360k · revenue +127%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $279k · revenue +57%
  • MU
    MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $75k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • LU
    LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +32%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
2
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
3
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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4
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
5
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
6
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
7
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…

Health
8
University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
9
Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare Group

The elmhurst memorial healthcare group follows the mission of endeavor health (f/k/a ns-ee holdings). the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to…

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10
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
11
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
12
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc; the most unlike its peers is Charles M Schwartz Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 127 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
48/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Illinois Foundation: $360,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois FoundationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $278,915 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $26,940 · Education+3 more: $4,000 · EducationCHRON'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION: $87,950 · OtherCHRON'S & COLITIS FOUNDATIONAM SHALOM: $33,210 · OtherAM SHALOMMONDAY AFTER THE MASTERS: $21,500 · OtherMONDAY AFTER THE MASTERSIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherCHABAD CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE - UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $19,790 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS HOPE OF ILLINOIS: $16,060 · OtherONE2ONE USA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Other+74 more: $184,856 · Other+74 moreMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $75,000 · HealthMEDICAL UNI…LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 · HealthLOYOLA UNIV…CHARLES M SCHWARTZ MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $13,500 · HealthCHARLES M S…+9 more: $6,850 · HealthJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $74,660 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION: $5,350 · PhilanthropyKiawah Cares Foundation: $3,750 · Philanthropy+4 more: $4,500 · PhilanthropyInvest for Kids Inc: $35,200 · Human ServicesSGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NFP: $8,000 · Human ServicesHonor Flight Chicago Corp: $7,500 · Human ServicesCHRISTMAS COMMANDOS: $3,100 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $2,750 · Human Services+6 more: $5,650 · Human ServicesRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $26,819 · Arts & CultureSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $13,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,500 · Arts & CultureChicago Children's Museum: $2,125 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,200 · Arts & CultureNorthwestern University: $10,100 · Recreation & SportsOutreach with Lacrosse Schools: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsMACCABI USA INC: $610 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $250 · Recreation & Sports
Education$669,855Other$398,366Health$145,350Philanthropy$88,260Human Services$62,200Arts & Culture$46,644Recreation & Sports$13,960

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $360,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $278,915 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $74,660 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInvest for Kids Inc: $35,200 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $26,940 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $26,819 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES M SCHWARTZ MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE CHICAGO INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $10,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Carolina Aquarium: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NFP: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION: $5,350 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $3,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKiawah Cares Foundation: $3,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc: $3,350 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSea Island Hunger Awareness Foundation: $3,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTMAS COMMANDOS: $3,100 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetOutreach with Lacrosse Schools: $3,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $2,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Children's Museum: $2,125 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIAWAH WOMENS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LUNCHBOX FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JEWISH CAMPUS BERLIN INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Beacon Place NFP: $1,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARRINGTON AREA COMM FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPCD KS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $610 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY KIDS CAMP: $600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 University of Illinois Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Invest for Kids Inc ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CHARLES M SCHWARTZ MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds HOPE CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds South Carolina Aquarium ↗
  • Who funds SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NFP ↗
  • Who funds Honor Flight Chicago Corp ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds Kiawah Cares Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗

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.

Jewish Federation of …Jarvis FoundationThe Chicago Community…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Baird Foundation IncThe Ayco Charitable F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…John D and Catherine …The Kadens Family Fou…The Bluhm Family Foun…Kovler Family Foundat…Polk Bros Foundation …
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL28.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rochman Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rochman Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 127 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home