· Private foundation
Soloman Goldberg Family Foundation
Its FY2022 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 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROYCEMORE | $5,000 |
| AKIBA SCHECHTER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA DANCE MARATHON | $350 |
| CHICAGO FAMILY HEALTH CENTER | $300 |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $105 |
| ROHR | $100 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FED OF AME | $100 |
| NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY | $100 |
| ST JUDES | $50 |
| ACBL | $49 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD | $48 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of its 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 +38% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RSROYCEMORE SCHOOL3× · 2019–2021 · $10k · revenue +36%
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO6× · 2017–2022 · $740 · revenue +45%
- CHCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY4× · 2018–2021 · $382 · revenue +38%
Funded once
- HCHARBOR CHASE OF LONG GROVEone grant, 2020 · $12k
- OOSRUIone grant, 2018 · $1k
- HPHyde Park School of Dancegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $270 · revenue +26%
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The arts club of chicago was formed as a means to encourage, foster, and develop higher standards of arts craftsmanship, and to maintain the city of chicago facility for the housing of galleries and exhibitions open to the public and free…
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.
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
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.
Chicago sun-times serves the public interest by strengthening the well-being of our local communities and our democracy through independent local journalism.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
Chapin hall's mission is to improve the well-being of children and youth, families, and their communities through broad-perspective policy research.
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 41 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 ROYCEMORE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Hyde Park School of Dance ↗
- Who funds Kids In Danger ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S DISEASE RESEARCH SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds LITERATURE FOR ALL OF US ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
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 · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Soloman Goldberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Soloman Goldberg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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