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Rothman Family Foundation at a glance

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Rothman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

International$185kHealth$162kCommunity Improvement$120kCivil Rights$85kReligion$40kArts & Culture$20kEnvironment$10kEducation$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ASSN$15,000
TRAP DOOR THEATRE$10,000
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 (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $1k → 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

ME
NH
IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
UT
DC
HI
AL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Rothman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Rothman Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$256k · 4 repeat orgs$319k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
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Total granted

$256k
$319k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-35%
+33%

Still filing today

25%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24
InternationalHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementReligionOther
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

  • JC
    Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
    2× · 2020–2022 · $120k · revenue -35%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    2× · 2022–2023 · $67k
  • AG
    ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ASSN
    4× · 2020–2024 · $57k

Funded once

  • HI
    HIAS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -28%
  • JS
    J STREET EDUCATION FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +61%
  • AI
    AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
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.

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The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
3
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
4
Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc

The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…

Arts & Culture
5
Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…

Civil Rights
6
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
7
Association of Legal Administrators

Ala is the catalyst for growth by providing: diverse educational experiences, engaged peer communities, strategic solutions, dynamic resources, and trusted networks.

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8
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
9
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
10
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
11
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
12
Lyric Opera of Chicago

We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ort America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Alta Community Enrichment. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 29 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
18/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $66,929 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ASSN: $57,000 · OtherALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ASSNAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA: $30,000 · OtherAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USATHE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC: $25,000 · OtherTHE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEALBEND THE ARC: $25,000 · OtherBEND THE ARCTRAP DOOR THEATRE: $12,500 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY HAWAII CHAPTER PUBLIC: $10,000 · Other+10 more: $27,500 · Other+10 moreHIAS INC: $60,000 · InternationalHIAS INCAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $50,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVIC…HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $30,000 · InternationalHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIEND…NEW ISRAEL FUND: $20,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUNDJewish Council on Urban Affairs: $120,000 · Community ImprovementJewish Council on Urb…J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $40,000 · ReligionPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $25,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH: $10,000 · HealthCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterLESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$278,929International$160,000Community Improvement$120,000Religion$40,000Health$35,000Housing & Shelter$6,000Crime & Legal$5,000

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 Council on Urban Affairs: $120,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetHIAS INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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 FoundationThe Chicago Community…Polk Bros Foundation …Circle of Service Fou…Jewish Federation of …The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for Good
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 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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