· Private foundation
Shulman-Rochambeau Charitable 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $201k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHATTERED GLOBE THEATRE COMPANY | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,625 |
| CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND | $10,000 |
| MICHIANA HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA | $5,000 |
| PORCHLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE | $5,000 |
| ACLU OF ILLINOIS | $4,500 |
| REMY BUMPPO THEATRE COMPANY | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $2,500 |
| ACORN THEATER | $1,500 |
| HAITI SCHOOL FUNDST PAUL & THE REDEEMER | $1,500 |
| THE JACK AND SHIRLEY LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $1,000 |
| ADVANCE ILLINOIS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SGShattered Globe Theatre6× · 2017–2022 · $308k · revenue +104%
- COCHIKAMING OPEN LANDS9× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +282%
- DFDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- TFTRUST FOR VIRGIN ISLANDS LANDSone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +7%
- PPorchlightone grant, 2022 · $6k
- GTGOODMAN THEATERone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
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.
Operation of a nautical history museum.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.
To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 69 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Shattered Globe Theatre ↗
- Who funds CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds TRUST FOR VIRGIN ISLANDS LANDS ↗
- Who funds Remy Bumppo Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO'S GREEN CITY MARKET PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN NATURE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds Museum of Glass ↗
- Who funds BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Center for Conflict Resolution ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shulman-Rochambeau Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shulman-Rochambeau Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- United States Naval Institute: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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