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Samuel H Krom Scholarship Fund at a glance

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Samuel H Krom Scholarship Fund

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.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$80kEducation$46kHealth$13kArts & Culture$12kPhilanthropy$5kYouth Development$5kRecreation & Sports$5kEnvironment$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$-7968
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
For Autistic Kids Foundation$3,400
CONGREGATION B'NAI TIKVAH$2,800
Individual grant recipient$1,500
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 (FY19–24, $2k) 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%OPEN DOORS ORGANIZATION: $2k → 14%CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $500 → 14%CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $400 → 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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$169k · 16 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$169k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+47%

Still filing today

56%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • HM
    HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $12k · revenue +17%
  • FA
    FOR AUTISTIC KIDS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +12%
  • TL
    THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO
    2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +61%
  • LT
    LANE TECH COMPUTER SCIENCE BOOSTER
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • SG
    SCHOLARSHIP GRANT ROBIN BRIDGES
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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
Chicago Jewish Day School

Cjds creates for its students a standard of excellence in both jewish and general studies. students develop a passion for learning and a strong sense of themselves as jews and as human beings. students are inspired to develop a strong…

Education
2
Junior Achievement of Chicago

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

International
3
Chicago Jewish Day School Endowment Foundation

The foundation was established exclusively for the benefit of and to carry out the purposes of the chicago jewish day school.

Education
4
Jewish Community Centers of Chicago

JCC Chicago is building community, supporting individuals and families, and growing hope through Jewish connections for everyone.

Human Services
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
Lycee Francais de Chicago Inc

The Lycee Francais de Chicago, driven by our core values of respect, responsibility and the joy of learning, empowers students to grow into active global citizens.

Education
7
Students Run Chicago
Health
8
Chicago Free School

Chicago Free School provides pre-kindergarten through 8th grade instruction and support activities. The faculty consists of qualified indiviuals with the appropriate education and experiende to provide students with the education that…

Education
9
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School

Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…

—
10
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
11
Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle

Jds is committed to providing an innovative academic program through a rigorous integrated, inquiry-based curriculum with general & judaic studies, empowering children to grow into capable, wise, and compassionate upstanders.

Education
12
Loyola University of Chicago

We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired; the most unlike its peers is Open Doors Organization. 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

12 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. 12 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AM SHALOM: $29,350 · OtherAM SHALOMCONGREGATION BNAI TIKVAH: $23,800 · OtherCONGREGATION BNAI TIKVAHTEMPLE SHOLOM OF CHICAGO: $22,200 · OtherTEMPLE SHOLOM OF CHICAGOIndividual grant recipient: $10,567 · OtherIndividual grant recipientU OF CHICAGO BUSINESS SCHOOL: $8,000 · OtherU OF CHICAGO BUSINESS SCHOOLHADASSAH: $5,000 · OtherLANE TECH COMPUTER SCIENCE BOOSTER: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $7,000 · Other+5 moreFRIENDS OF JONES: $15,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF JONESTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $10,000 · EducationTHE LATIN SCHOOL O…CHICAGO CITY DAY SCHOOL: $5,500 · EducationCHICAGO CITY DAY S…FOR AUTISTIC KIDS FOUNDATION: $10,400 · PhilanthropyFOR AUTIS…JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $5,200 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UN…HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $11,500 · Arts & CultureJEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentHamlin Park Association Inc: $4,500 · Recreation & SportsOpen Doors Organization: $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $900 · Human Services
Other$115,917Education$30,500Philanthropy$15,600Arts & Culture$11,500Youth Development$5,000Recreation & Sports$4,500Human Services$2,400

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 budgetFRIENDS OF JONES: $15,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOR AUTISTIC KIDS FOUNDATION: $10,400 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO CITY DAY SCHOOL: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $5,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHamlin Park Association Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Doors Organization: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $900 over 2y, 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 FRIENDS OF JONES ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds FOR AUTISTIC KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO CITY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Hamlin Park Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Open Doors Organization ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗

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 …John D and Catherine …AbbVie FoundationThe Chicago Community…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Samuel H Krom Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samuel H Krom Scholarship Fund. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 23 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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