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Sedge Plitt Charitable Trust III

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.

$917k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$1.0MArts & Culture$809kInternational$278kPhilanthropy$268kReligion$48kEducation$25kCrime & Legal$15kHousing & Shelter$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $290k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$500,000
RAVINIA FOUNDATION$125,000
JEWISH UNITED FUND$90,000
ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$75,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$25,000
NORTHSHORE HOSPITALS FOUNDATION$20,000
NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM$10,000
TAKI ALSOP CONDUCTING FELLOWSHIP INC$10,000
LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$10,000
DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
PEORIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$7,500
JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK$6,800
ELYSSA'S MISSION$5,000
ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION$5,000
CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY$5,000
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 (FY22–23, $8k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 28 repeat orgs$612k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
21

Total granted

$1.6M
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+60%

Still filing today

57%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $522k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureReligionCrime & LegalInternationalEducationOther
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

  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    4× · 2021–2024 · $265k · revenue +33%
  • EH
    Endeavor Health Clinical Operations
    5× · 2020–2024 · $205k · revenue +25%
  • PP
    Planned Parenthood of Illinois
    4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • LT
    LES TURNER ALS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • HI
    HELL IN A HANDBAG PRODUCT
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • HI
    Hell In A Handbag Productionsgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +203%
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
National Jewish Health

National Jewish Health's mission since 1899 is to heal, discover and educate as a preeminent healthcare institution. We serve by providing the best integrated and innovative care for patients and their families; by understanding and…

Health
2
Chicago Center for Jewish Genetic Disorders

The norton & elaine sarnoff center for jewish genetics (the center) is an educational resource for hereditary cancers and jewish genetic disorders. working closely with clergy, health care professionals, support organizations and dedicated…

Health
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

Federation amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place for everyone. we assist people in need, impact chicagoans of all faiths; support israel and the jewish people worldwide; respond swiftly to crises; cultivate…

Philanthropy
5
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

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…

Health
6
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
7
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…

Health
8
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
9
Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center Endowment Foundation

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.

Health
10
Hillels of Illinois Endowment Foundation

The foundation was established exclusively for the benefit of and to carry out the purposes of the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago, a not-for-profit organization.

Education
11
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
12
Michael Reese Health Trust

Michael Reese partners with the Chicagoland community to advance and advocate for lasting health solutions. We do this by carrying forward the vision of Michael Reese Hospital's Jewish founders and the generations of philanthropic…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hell in a Handbag Productions. 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

31 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. 31 of the 56 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/31
Grantees still filing
24/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATIONRAVINIA FOUNDATION: $401,000 · OtherRAVINIA FOUNDATIONILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $300,000 · OtherILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUMDIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Other+29 more: $222,500 · Other+29 moreEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $205,000 · HealthEndeavor Health Cl…BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthBEAUMONT HEALTH FO…Planned Parenthood of Illinois: $40,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $22,500 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX …A SILVER LINING FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $17,500 · Health+2 more: $10,000 · HealthJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $265,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIO…+2 more: $12,500 · InternationalJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $265,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNIT…THE TAKI ALSOP CONDUCTING FELLOWSHIP INC: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePEORIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $12,500 · Arts & CultureHell In A Handbag Productions: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWINDY CITY PLAYHOUSE: $7,500 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK: $6,800 · ReligionREFUGEEONE: $5,000 · ReligionCHAMPAIGN-URBANA JEWISH FEDERATION: $2,500 · ReligionNORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC: $7,500 · Crime & LegalElyssas Mission NFP: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,473,500Health$415,000International$277,500Philanthropy$265,000Arts & Culture$70,000Religion$14,300Crime & Legal$12,500

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 UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $265,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $265,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $205,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAKI ALSOP CONDUCTING FELLOWSHIP INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetA SILVER LINING FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEORIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHell In A Handbag Productions: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWINDY CITY PLAYHOUSE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK: $6,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMATH CIRCLES OF CHICAGO: $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUCM NETWORK DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetElyssas Mission NFP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHAMPAIGN-URBANA JEWISH FEDERATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetANDYS ANGELS: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $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.

Jewish Federation of …The Chicago Community…Herbert C Wenske Foun…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Renaissance Charitabl…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Paypal Charitable Giv…
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Herbert C Wenske Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Sedge Plitt Charitable Trust III funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sedge Plitt Charitable Trust III. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Sedge Plitt Charitable Trust III?

    Find your warmest path to Sedge Plitt Charitable Trust III through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 56 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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