· Private foundation
Schwarzbach Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund | $37,881 |
| BUILD Chicago | $15,250 |
| Jewish United Fund | $15,000 |
| Ravinia Festival | $5,000 |
| Megan Butz Legacy of Hope | $5,000 |
| Am Shalom | $3,850 |
| Anti-Defamation Leage | $3,000 |
| Chicago Furniture Bank | $3,000 |
| Active Minds | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,395 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Family Services of Glencoe | $1,500 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $500 |
| National MS Society of IL | $500 |
| Planned Parenthood | $350 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BIBUILD INC4× · 2020–2024 · $47k · revenue +162%
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO4× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +13%
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION3× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +253%
Funded once
DIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +8%- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEone grant, 2023 · $2k
- GFGREATER FOOD DEPOSITORYone grant, 2020 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
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…
We strive to make aging easier through the development of a network of services for older persons designed to optimize the quality of their lives.
The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
To improve the quality of life for families challenged by alzheimer's disease or another dementia, through services tailored to meet individual needs.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Shore Senior Center and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LET IT BE US ↗
- Who funds Active Minds Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE ↗
- Who funds MEGAN BUTZ LEGACY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Highland Park Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds PAWS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · AbbVie Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Schwarzbach Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.