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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…

$5.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$2.8M
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$22MArts & Culture$1.7MEducation$1.0MInternational$930kCivil Rights$870kHealth$847kHuman Services$694kEmployment$620kCrime & Legal$455kOther$1.7M
02FY2025 · 35 grants

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
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 12%Red Tent Fund: $20k → 14%Hebrew Free Loan Society of New York: $50k → 17%Equality Illinois Institute: $10k → 14%Equality Illinois Institute: $10k → 14%Equality Illinois Institute: $10k → 14%Equality Illinois Institute: $10k → 14%EQUALITY ILLINOIS INSTITUTE: $8k → 14%Equality Illinois Institute: $8k → 14%Equality Illinois Institute: $8k → 14%Equality Illinois Institute: $10k → 14%Jewish Free Loan Chicago: $15k → 14%Jewish Free Loan Chicago: $15k → 14%JEWISH FREE LOAN CHICAGO: $15k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $50k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $40k → 14%Jewish Child and Family Services: $30k → 14%Jewish Child and Family Services: $30k → 14%Jewish Child and Family Services: $25k → 14%Jewish Child and Family Services: $25k → 14%Jewish Child and Family Services: $20k → 14%Jewish Child and Family Services: $20k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 14%Jewish Child and Family Services: $20k → 14%Youth Services of Glenview-Northbrook: $40k → 14%Youth Services of Glenview-Northbrook: $30k → 14%Youth Services of Glenview-Northbrook: $30k → 14%Youth Services of Glenview-Northbrook: $30k → 14%Youth Services of Glenview-Northbrook: $25k → 14%Youth Services of Glenview-Northbrook: $25k → 14%YOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEW-NORTHBROOK: $25k → 14%Youth Services of Glenview-Northbrook: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$24M · 30 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
4

Total granted

$24M
$163k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+14%

Still filing today

97%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsEducationHealthInternationalOther

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

  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +13%
  • LO
    Lyric Opera of Chicago
    9× · 2017–2025 · $661k · revenue +33%
  • TA
    THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $620k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • CP
    CHICAGO PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $57k · revenue -28%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • TM
    THE MENNINGER CLINIC
    one 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.

04Your field

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.

1
University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
2
Loyola University of Chicago

We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.

Education
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

4
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
7
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
8
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
12
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%5%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr19%18%20–35yr14%13%35–55yr14%60%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr19%11%20–35yr14%4%35–55yr14%85%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
14%
7,119/51,651

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
30/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $13,460,982 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGOJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $5,773,187 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGOUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $2,285,728 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INCLyric Opera of Chicago — $660,520 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony Orchestra — $552,580 · Arts & CultureKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry — $214,507 · Arts & CultureTHE ADLER PLANETARIUM — $196,672 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $30,000 · Arts & CultureSPERTUS INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP — $730,701 · OtherSPERTUS INST…CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $275,000 · OtherCHICAGO COMM…THE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC — $160,338 · OtherYOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK — $225,000 · OtherYOUTH SERVIC…Jewish Child and Family Services — $190,000 · OtherJewish Child…The Cara Program — $455,000 · OtherThe Cara Pro…CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE — $165,338 · OtherSafer Foundation — $455,000 · OtherSafer Founda…LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $430,007 · OtherLINCOLN PARK…+6 more — $335,672 · Other+6 moreTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $620,080 · EducationCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $260,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $100,338 · Education+1 more — $28,336 · EducationAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $439,845 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC — $220,003 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $220,003 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED — $50,000 · InternationalANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $406,509 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $160,338 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $142,838 · Civil RightsKESHET INC — $130,000 · Civil Rights+2 more — $30,000 · Civil RightsPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $583,336 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $152,838 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $82,503 · HealthTHE MENNINGER CLINIC — $28,336 · Health
Philanthropy$21,519,897Arts & Culture$1,654,279Other$3,422,056Education$1,008,754International$929,851Civil Rights$869,685Health$847,013

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $13,460,982 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $5,773,187 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $2,285,728 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetSPERTUS INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP — $730,701 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago — $660,520 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $620,080 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $583,336 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra — $552,580 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSafer Foundation — $455,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetThe Cara Program — $455,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $439,845 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $430,007 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $406,509 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $260,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetYOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK — $225,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC — $220,003 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $220,003 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry — $214,507 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ADLER PLANETARIUM — $196,672 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services — $190,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE — $165,338 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $160,338 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC — $160,338 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $152,838 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $142,838 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetKESHET INC — $130,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $100,338 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services — $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $82,503 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEQUALITY ILLINOIS INSTITUTE — $74,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCHICAGO PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE — $56,672 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJewish Free Loan Chicago Inc — $45,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetTHE MENNINGER CLINIC — $28,336 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAssociated Colleges of Illinois Inc — $28,336 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL19.4× affinity7 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 · 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Keshet Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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