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Sheldon and Freda Robinson Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Sheldon and Freda Robinson Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$256k
Granted FY2026still arriving
19
Grants FY2026still arriving
4
States reached
$199k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$207kPhilanthropy$170kReligion$153kEducation$7kInternational$5kHealth$3kFood & Nutrition$3kHuman Services$500
02FY2026 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k17 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $46k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $199k
$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$248k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH UNITED FUND$198,904
JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$45,500
FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND (THROUGH JGIVE)$3,000
CHICAGO MITZVAH CAMPAIGN$1,853
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS$1,029
Individual grant recipient$1,000
CONGREGATION YEHUDA MOSHE SISTERHOOD$1,000
HEBRON FUND$525
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LA$500
ONE ISRAEL FUND$500
Individual grant recipient$360
Individual grant recipient$360
REBECCA COPELAND FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE$250
EZER MIZION$200
ADI ISRAEL FDN$185
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–26, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KEREN MENACHEM: $5k → 17%REBECCA COPELAND FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $250 → 8%CHICAGO CHESED FUND: $500 → 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$562k · 13 repeat orgs$179k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2026, 8 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
50

Total granted

$562k
$171k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+70%

Still filing today

54%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
InternationalReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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× · 2021–2026 · $268k · revenue +33%
  • MC
    MAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +34%
  • PL
    PEYLIM LEV LACHIM
    3× · 2022–2025 · $1k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF METRO CHICAGO - DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $83k
  • OC
    OTHER CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS
    one grant, 2021 · $21k
  • LI
    LEKET ISRAEL
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
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
Sherit Isroel
—
2
University of Judaism Foundation
—
3
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
The Keren Rachaim Fund
—
6
Ohr Meir Ubracha

The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.

Philanthropy
7
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
8
Israel Medical Fund Corp

To provide guidance and support to families with ill or physically disabled family members

Human Services
9
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
10
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
11
Kehillah Jewish Education Fund

Make an authentic jewish education, coupled with an excellent secular education, available and affordable to all jewish families in the chicagoland community.

Education
12
Zichron Moshe Elihu Tzedoka Fund
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Israel Fund Ltd; the most unlike its peers is Hatzalah Chicago. 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

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 77 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $268,279 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGOJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $62,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO+2 more: $2,054 · PhilanthropyCAMP MOSHAVA OF WILD ROSE INC: $207,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP MOSHAVA OF WILD ROSE INCJEWISH FEDERATION OF METRO CHICAGO - DONOR ADVISED FUND: $82,626 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF METR…OTHER CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS: $21,126 · OtherOTHER CHARITABLE INSTITUT…HTC: $11,030 · OtherHTCLEKET ISRAEL: $8,000 · Other+50 more: $59,255 · Other+50 moreCHICAGO MIKVAH ASSOCIATION INC: $57,000 · ReligionCHICAGO M…KIRYAT SHEMONA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · ReligionKIRYAT SH…+2 more: $2,103 · ReligionCentral Fund of Israel: $1,500 · InternationalSHAVEI HEVRON INSTITUTIONS INC: $1,437 · InternationalONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $1,000 · InternationalAMIT CHILDREN INC: $1,000 · InternationalART OVER HATE COLLECTIVE INC F/K/N ARTISTS 4 ISRAEL INC: $500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $360 · International+2 more: $385 · InternationalKeren Menachem Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHICAGO CHESED FUND: $500 · Human ServicesREBECCA A COPELAND FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $250 · Human ServicesMAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $3,300 · Food & NutritionHATZALAH CHICAGO: $2,500 · HealthSharsheret Inc: $750 · Health
Philanthropy$332,833Recreation & Sports$207,000Other$182,037Religion$64,103International$6,182Human Services$5,750Food & Nutrition$3,300Health$3,250

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: $268,279 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP MOSHAVA OF WILD ROSE INC: $207,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $62,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO MIKVAH ASSOCIATION INC: $57,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetKeren Menachem Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $3,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHAVEI HEVRON INSTITUTIONS INC: $1,437 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEYLIM LEV LACHIM: $1,080 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEBRON FUND INC: $1,025 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMIT CHILDREN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART OVER HATE COLLECTIVE INC F/K/N ARTISTS 4 ISRAEL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $180 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds CAMP MOSHAVA OF WILD ROSE INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO MIKVAH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Keren Menachem Inc ↗
  • Who funds KIRYAT SHEMONA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds HATZALAH CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGN ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds SHAVEI HEVRON INSTITUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds PEYLIM LEV LACHIM ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds HEBRON FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE ISRAEL FUND LTD ↗

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 …Jewish Communal FundElliott and Ronni Cha…Bellows Family Founda…Jewish United Fund of…Todd a and Raphaela S…Bitton Family Foundat…Noah Wolff Family Fou…The Novick Family Fou…National Philanthropi…Daniel & Chayala Glen…Campbell Foundation F…
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL27.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Communal Fund · Elliott and Ronni Charitable Fdn · Bellows Family Foundation · Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago · Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation · Bitton Family Foundation Inc · Noah Wolff Family Foundation Inc · The Novick Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation · Campbell Foundation For Charitable Giving

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 Sheldon and Freda Robinson Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sheldon and Freda Robinson Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–50%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Sheldon and Freda Robinson Charitable Foundation Inc 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 77 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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