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Rothman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 25
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$4.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Rothman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
InternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$25k0%
FY20232$49k0%
FY20224$148k50%
FY202025$353kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$185kHealth$162kCommunity Improvement$120kCivil Rights$85kReligion$40kArts & Culture$20kEnvironment$10kEducation$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
UT
DC
HI
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($229k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rothman Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Council on Urban Affairs: $120,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetHias Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ Street Education Fund Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Association of Utah: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Coalition to End Homelessness: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrt America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShedd Aquarium Society: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSteep Theatre: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAlbany Park Theater Project: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlta Community Enrichment: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJohn Tracy Clinic: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Thresholds: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLester and Rosalie Anixter Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

AbbVie FoundationIL16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good

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.

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About Rothman Family Foundation

How much does Rothman Family Foundation give?
Rothman Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $25,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Rothman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (29%), Health (25%), Community Improvement (19%).
Who are Rothman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Jewish Council on Urban Affairs ($120k), Hias Inc ($60k), J Street Education Fund Inc ($40k).
Does Rothman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rothman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rothman Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Polk Bros Foundation Inc.
Where is Rothman Family Foundation based?
Rothman Family Foundation is based in IL.

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 29 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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