· Private foundation
The Atkins Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $102,064 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $50,000 |
| JCC ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| RAVINIA | $6,850 |
| JCC ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK | $5,899 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND USA | $5,000 |
| BRIARWOOD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| TEMPLE JEREMIAH | $1,500 |
| DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| BELLRINGER | $1,000 |
| PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| CAMP FOR ALL KIDS | $1,000 |
| ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND | $940 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO8× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +13%
- JCJewish Community Centers of Chicago4× · 2021–2024 · $57k · revenue +34%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA2× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- JCJCC CHICAGO - STOCKone grant, 2021 · $151k
- JAJCC Associationone grant, 2022 · $8k
- JUJewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago - Cashone grant, 2020 · $1k
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 adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The foundation's objective is to fund breakthrough gastrointestinal (gi) cancer research, including clinical trials and studies, at the robert h. lurie comprehensive cancer center of northwestern university.additionally, another objective…
Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
How this is measured
85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 141 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 JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Centers of Chicago ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds Threewalls ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIARWOOD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Society for Contemporary Art C-O The Art Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Case Art Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival ↗
- Who funds LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) 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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Metzner Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Leon and Sharon Kaufman Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · AbbVie Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jerrold Ruskin Foundation Inc · Mills Family Charitable Foundation · Prince Foundation · Reva and David Logan Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Atkins Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Atkins Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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