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Season of Change 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation | $8,415 |
| Klezmer Music Foundation | $5,100 |
| Friends of ELNET | $1,854 |
| B'Nai Jehoshua Beth Elohim | $1,500 |
| Taft School | $1,250 |
| Ravinia Festival | $1,250 |
| HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Genesis at the Crossroads | $1,000 |
| Northlight Theater | $1,000 |
| American Friends of Alyn Hospital | $750 |
| Brown University | $600 |
| One Million Degrees | $500 |
| Ukraine Trust Chain | $500 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $500 |
| Shakespeare Project of Chicago | $500 |
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 (FY21–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% 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 +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 10 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- KMKLEZMER MUSIC FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $43k · revenue +56%
- TTTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION6× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +106%
- GAGENESIS AT THE CROSSROADS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- CCCitizens Committee Complete the Refone grant, 2021 · $2k
- IFINSTITUTE FOR POLITICAL INNOVATION INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -54%
- CCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +9%
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
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…
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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…
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is C J Jung Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 92 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 KLEZMER MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Highland Park Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GENESIS AT THE CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC ↗
- Who funds NORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds The Shakespeare Project of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR HUMANISTIC JUDAISM ↗
- Who funds Mendocino Land Trust ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds C J JUNG CENTER ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR POLITICAL INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE MILLION DEGREES ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association 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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 Season of Change 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
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.
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