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Supera 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.

$410k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$200,929
Organizations funded a year
7 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$8.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Supera Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$410k43%
FY20247$671k29%
FY202314$459k57%
FY202215$524k67%
FY20218$97k50%
FY202010$1.6M60%
FY201914$276k64%
FY201815$258kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.3MHealth$1.1MHousing & Shelter$583kReligion$105kArts & Culture$93kInternational$36kCrime & Legal$35kEducation$33kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago$2,152,00070%
Rush University Medical Center$1,000,00010%
Temple Sholom of Chicago$104,3608n/a
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc$100,00010%
Navy Pier Inc$50,00010%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$35,00020%
University of Chicago$25,00010%
Ignite$25,00010%
Lakeview Dog Park Inc Nfp$25,000119%
Sarah's Circle$25,00010%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($647k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Supera Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago: $2,152,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNavy Pier Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEverytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIgnite: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLakeview Dog Park Inc Nfp: $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSarah's Circle: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNorth Side Housing and Supportive Services: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation: $9,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGrant Park Orchestral Association: $7,964 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Latin School of Chicago: $7,283 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrain Research Foundation: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetA Red Orchid Theatre: $6,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetInternational Medical Corps: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwipe Out Hunger: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago Medical Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLuminarts Cultural Foundation the Union League Club of Chicago: $1,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Elnet: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHyde Park Art Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chicago High School for the Arts: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMichigan Humane Society: $635 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIngenuity Incorporated Chicago: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation for the Preservation of St Rose of Lima Chapel: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Posse Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

John D and Catherine T Macarthur FoundationIL22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Caerus Foundation Inc · John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · AbbVie Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Supera Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Supera Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Supera Family Foundation

How much does Supera Family Foundation give?
Supera Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $409,536 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Supera Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (54%), Health (25%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
Who are Supera Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($2.2M), Rush University Medical Center ($1.0M), Temple Sholom of Chicago ($104k).
Does Supera Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Supera Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Supera Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Polk Bros Foundation Inc, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial.
Where is Supera Family Foundation based?
Supera Family Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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