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Shure Charitable Trust Created Uw of Sidney N Shure
The shure charitable trust (the trust) has been organized to be operated at all times and exclusively to support and carry out the purposes of the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago and the jewish united fund of metropolitan chicago, both of which are illinois not-for-profit corporations organized and operated exclusively for…
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k20 grants · $370k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $670k
- $250k+3 grants · $4.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $2,791,739 |
| Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago | $1,470,000 |
| United Way of Metropolitan Chicago | $250,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of Illinois | $90,000 |
| CARA Program | $60,000 |
| Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership | $60,000 |
| Safer Foundation | $60,000 |
| Hebrew Free Loan Society of New York | $50,000 |
| Children First Fund the chicago public schools foundation | $50,000 |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $50,000 |
| american Society for Technion - Israel Inst for Technology | $50,000 |
| Metropolitan Family Services | $50,000 |
| Anti-Defamation League | $50,000 |
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $50,000 |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $694k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO9× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +13%
- LOLyric Opera of Chicago9× · 2017–2025 · $661k · revenue +33%
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO8× · 2017–2024 · $620k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- CPCHICAGO PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $57k · revenue -28%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLEDone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- TMTHE MENNINGER CLINICone grant, 2017 · $28k · revenue +14%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Forward Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Adler Planetarium. 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 68 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 42 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 JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds SPERTUS INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Safer Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
- Who funds THE ADLER PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds Jewish Child and Family Services ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds KESHET INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY ILLINOIS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Free Loan Chicago Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MENNINGER CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Associated Colleges of Illinois Inc ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RED TENT FUND ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS 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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Shure Charitable Trust Created Uw of Sidney N Shure 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.
- Keshet Inc — 0% 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.