· Private foundation
Sol R Kaufman Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SILENT FILM SOCIETY OF CHICAGO | $19,000 |
| SPUDNIK PRESS COOPERATIVE | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO FILM SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| LAWYERS FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
CARE FOR REAL2× · 2022–2023 · $12k · revenue +28%- ICInspiration Corporation2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +102%
- RMRole Model Movement Inc2× · 2017–2021 · $4k · revenue +388%
Funded once
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORYone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -14%- MSMARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +3%
- FAFAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INCone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -42%
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.
Chicago public art group brings artists and communities together to produce high-quality public art, extending and transforming the tradition of collaborative, community-involved public artwork.
To impact society through the powerful tools of media and film. we are a resource for uniting individuals interested in media and developing a core group of informed citizens.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Cinema/Chicago, the non-profit 501(c)(3) presenting organization of the Chicago International Film Festival, enriches the community through year-round programming devoted to international and independent cinema. We strengthen communication…
Block club chicago is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to delivering reliable, nonpartisan and essential coverage of chicago's diverse neighborhoods.
To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.
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…
Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…
Chicago sun-times serves the public interest by strengthening the well-being of our local communities and our democracy through independent local journalism.
Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Honor the Earth. 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 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 44 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 SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CARE FOR REAL ↗
- Who funds Spudnik Press Cooperative ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Inspiration Corporation ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO OPERA THEATER ↗
- Who funds Chicago Film Society ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WHITNEY M YOUNG HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Chicago ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds DEATH WITH DIGNITY NATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds LITERATURE FOR ALL OF US ↗
- Who funds Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN EMPLOYED ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds STEEP THEATRE ↗
- Who funds COMMON DREAMS 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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Richard and Mary L Gray Foundation · The Richard H Driehaus Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Sol R Kaufman Family Foundation 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.
- Center for Hope and Safety Inc — 69% 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.
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