· Private foundation
Sam I Am 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $144k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK PEACE PROJECT | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE IDF | $30,000 |
| NORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISRAEL | $29,340 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $25,000 |
| AM SHALOM | $25,000 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COUNCIL | $15,068 |
| NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE ARK | $10,000 |
| CHARLES M SCHWARTZ MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND | $2,500 |
| HELPING HANDS NETWORK INC | $1,980 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITAL | $1,849 |
| THE GIVING BACK FUND INC | $1,800 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $206k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO9× · 2017–2025 · $340k · revenue +13%
- JCJewish Community Centers of Chicago2× · 2022–2023 · $201k · revenue +14%
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum9× · 2017–2025 · $142k · revenue +25%
Funded once
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicagograduatedone grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +60%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $100k
- IFIMPACT FAMILY CENTERone grant, 2017 · $91k
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.
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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Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…
The foundation was established exclusively for the benefit and to carry out the purposes of the mount sinai hospital medical center of chicago, a not-for-profit organization.
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How this is measured
58 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. 58 of the 83 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Centers of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK PEACE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds IMPACT FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds CHARLES M SCHWARTZ MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL FRAGILE X FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds Highland Park Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND SOUL ↗
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 · The Bill Bass Foundation · Kovler Family Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sam I Am Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sam I Am Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
How this is measured
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