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The 4jd Family Foundation at a glance

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The 4jd 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.

$99k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$194kReligion$143kInternational$65kYouth Development$62kEducation$41kPhilanthropy$35kHealth$8kHuman Services$930Other$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $89k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$31k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS$30,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL NAVY SEALS (AFINS)$20,000
JEWISH UNITED FUND$19,332
CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS FOUNDATION$10,000
AM SHALOM$10,000
CONGREG EZRA-HABONIM NORTHBROOK$5,860
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO (MCA)$2,500
CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION$1,800
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY SERVICES OF GLENCOE: $930 → 14%GLENCOE YOUTH SERVICES: $180 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$384k · 11 repeat orgs$166k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
20

Total granted

$384k
$164k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+31%

Still filing today

64%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HM
    HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $95k · revenue +2%
  • CB
    Chicago Blackhawks Foundation
    4× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +78%
  • University of Illinois Foundation
    2× · 2020–2022 · $40k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • IH
    ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $45k
  • HM
    HOLOCAUST MEM FOUNDATION OF IL
    one grant, 2020 · $38k
  • HC
    HADASSAH CHICAGO-NORTH SHORE
    one grant, 2021 · $31k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Students Run Chicago
Health
2
The Chicago High School for the Arts

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…

Education
3
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
4
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
5
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
6
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
7
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
8
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
9
Hillels of Illinois Endowment Foundation

The foundation was established exclusively for the benefit of and to carry out the purposes of the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago, a not-for-profit organization.

Education
10
Chicago Historical Society

The Chicago History Museum strives to be a destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. Through dynamic exhibitions, tours, programs, digital resources, and special events, the Museum connects people to Chicago's history…

Arts & Culture
11
Chicago Humanities Festival

To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
12
Chicago Theatre Group Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Contemporary Art; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
17/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL NAVY SEALS (AFINS): $65,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL NAVY SEALS (AFINS)AM SHALOM: $46,400 · OtherAM SHALOMILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $45,000 · OtherILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUMHOLOCAUST MEM FOUNDATION OF IL: $37,700 · OtherHOLOCAUST MEM FOUNDATION OF ILCONGREG EZRA-HABONIM NORTHBROOK: $34,413 · OtherCONGREG EZRA-HABONIM NORTHBROOKHADASSAH CHICAGO-NORTH SHORE: $30,800 · OtherHADASSAH CHICAGO-NORTH SHOREHADASSAH: $30,720 · OtherHADASSAH+10 more: $27,615 · Other+10 moreHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $95,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL F…MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureChicago Blackhawks Foundation: $62,125 · PhilanthropyChicago Blackhaw…JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $20,332 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FU…University of Illinois Foundation: $40,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $2,500 · Education+2 more: $610 · EducationCANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $2,250 · HealthCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 · HealthGILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO: $1,000 · HealthFAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $930 · Human ServicesGLENCOE YOUTH SERVICES A CORPORATION: $180 · Human ServicesTHE BNAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $540 · Civil Rights
Other$317,648Arts & Culture$100,500Philanthropy$82,457Education$43,110Health$5,050Human Services$1,110Civil Rights$540

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $95,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetChicago Blackhawks Foundation: $62,125 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $20,332 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUNKER HILL CHARITIES: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $2,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKESHET: $2,160 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $930 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BNAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifeline Productions Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW TRIER HOCKEY CLUB INC: $375 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON RACE & EQUITY: $360 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEAT THE STREETS CHICAGO: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLENCOE YOUTH SERVICES A CORPORATION: $180 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Chicago Community…Fab 5 Foundation Attn…Circle of Service Fou…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
The Chicago Community TrustIL17× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Fab 5 Foundation Attn Jon Michelon · Circle of Service Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The 4jd Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The 4jd Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The 4jd Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The 4jd 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.

    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 32 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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