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Ronald and Geri Yonover Foundation at a glance

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Ronald and Geri Yonover 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.

$408k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.0MPhilanthropy$742kCivil Rights$227kHuman Services$172kEducation$167kEnvironment$91kInternational$73kFood & Nutrition$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $190k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$684k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF THE SUNCOAST$75,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$65,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE$50,000
STEPPENWOLF THEATER$30,000
GOODMAN THEATER$30,000
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$20,000
CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER$20,000
ANGUILLA TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION$14,000
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL$11,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHWEST INDIANA$10,000
EDISON HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$10,000
NATIONAL D-DAY MUSEUM$8,000
MERCY HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS$7,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$7,000
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 (FY17–24, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JOIN: $2k → 12%JOIN: $2k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF THE SUNCOAST: $75k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES OF THE SUNCOAST: $25k → 9%JOIN: $2k → 12%JOIN: $1k → 12%JOIN: $1k → 12%JOIN: $1k → 12%JOIN: $1k → 12%CHILD FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%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

IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
CA
VA
MD
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 49 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
17

Total granted

$1.9M
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+30%

Still filing today

76%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    4× · 2019–2022 · $227k · revenue +39%
  • ST
    STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $155k · revenue +59%
  • CS
    Chicago Symphony Orchestra
    8× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • AT
    ASOLO THEATRE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +13%
  • ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +16%
  • CF
    ChiArts Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +77%
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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
5
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
6
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
7
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
8
The Adler Planetarium

The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…

Arts & Culture
9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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10
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
11
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
12
Lookingglass Theatre Company

Lookingglass theatre company is a national leader in the creation and presentation of innovative, cutting-edge theatrical work. lookingglass interweaves movement, circus arts and narrative in original and captivating ways. guided by an…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Shakespeare Theater; the most unlike its peers is Young Black and Lit. 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

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 74 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)
58/59
Grantees still filing
47/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOODMAN THEATER: $160,000 · OtherGOODMAN THEATERSARASOTA ORCHESTRA: $135,000 · OtherSARASOTA ORCHESTRAASOLO REPERTORY THEATER: $100,000 · OtherASOLO REPERTORY THEATERTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF NWI INC: $60,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF NWI INCMERCY HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $46,000 · OtherSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 · OtherEDISON HIGH SCHOOL: $34,000 · OtherInternational Rescue Committee INC: $60,000 · OtherInternational Rescue Committee INCANGUILLA TENNIS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $42,500 · Other+33 more: $242,000 · Other+33 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $477,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPO…GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyGULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDAT…THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAR…STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $155,000 · Arts & CultureSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE…CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $110,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE…Chicago Symphony Orchestra: $110,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony Or…ASOLO THEATRE INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureASOLO THEATRE INC+10 more: $50,500 · Arts & Culture+10 moreCulver Educational Foundation: $70,000 · EducationCulver Edu…THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $67,000 · EducationTHE CHICAG…THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $53,000 · EducationTHE ART IN…Illinois Institute of Technology: $46,000 · EducationIllinois I…ChiArts Foundation: $12,000 · Education+2 more: $8,000 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $227,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN …Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,000 · Human ServicesJOIN: $8,500 · Human ServicesChild Foundation: $4,500 · Human ServicesCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $45,500 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE: $23,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · Environment
Other$916,500Philanthropy$677,500Arts & Culture$460,500Education$256,000Civil Rights$227,000Human Services$124,000Environment$69,500

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $477,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $227,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $155,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $110,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $110,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCulver Educational Foundation: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $67,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF NWI INC: $60,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $60,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $53,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $46,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $45,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetANGUILLA TENNIS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $42,500 over 4y, 20% of budgetSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetASOLO THEATRE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDISON HIGH SCHOOL: $34,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE: $23,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWILDAID INC: $22,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $21,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChiArts Foundation: $12,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBroadway Dreams Foundation Corporation: $12,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Florence: $10,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOUTSIDE IN: $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND: $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJOIN: $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetProvidence St Mel School: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Anti-Cruelty Society: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHermitage Artist Retreat Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChild Foundation: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASCADIA HEALTH: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSON OF A SAINT: $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHIGIVESBACK INC: $4,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESTORATIVE RESPONSE BALTIMORE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOUGY CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC ↗
  • Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF NWI INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANGUILLA TENNIS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds EDISON HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds WILDAID INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds ChiArts Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Broadway Dreams Foundation Corporation ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Florence ↗
  • Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds OUTSIDE IN ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND ↗
  • Who funds JOIN ↗
  • Who funds Providence St Mel School ↗
  • Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Charles & Margery Bar…Chubb Charitable Foun…The Oregon Community …American Endowment Fo…Jewish Communal FundFriends of the Arts &…William G and Marie S…OCF Joseph E Weston P…The Ayco Charitable F…The US Charitable Gif…The Chicago Community…
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Friends of the Arts & Humanities Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Chicago Community Trust

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 Ronald and Geri Yonover Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ronald and Geri Yonover Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc: 67% of income from government
  • Outside in: 33% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children-Portland: 5% of income from government
  • Public Justice Center Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Restorative Response Baltimore Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Join: 4% of income from government
  • Cascadia Health: 3% of income from government
  • The Dougy Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Florida Holocaust Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 74 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home