· Private foundation
The Ellis Goodman 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $316k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $790k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF GLENCOE GOLF CLUB | $250,000 |
| WRITERS THEATRE | $165,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,000 |
| NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATES BEN GURION UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| CHICAGO BOTANICAL GARDEN | $100,000 |
| BUILD INC | $50,000 |
| CHRISTOPHER HOUSE | $50,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTER | $50,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $50,000 |
| CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA | $35,000 |
| CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE | $30,000 |
| ELLISON RESEACH INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| PORTLAND TRUST | $25,000 |
| THE FIELD MUSEUM | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $325k) 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.
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 +26% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 6 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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 CHICAGO5× · 2020–2024 · $700k · revenue +13%
- WTWriters Theatre Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $486k · revenue +12%
- BIBUILD INC5× · 2020–2024 · $470k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- FOFREINDS OF GLENCOE GOLF CLUBone grant, 2021 · $125k
- DDIGNITYMOVESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue ×11
- SSTEPPENWOLFone grant, 2021 · $30k
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.
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How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 96 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 Writers Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds BRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds Lake Forest College ↗
- Who funds DIGNITYMOVES ↗
- Who funds ASOCIACION LATINA DE ASISTENCIA Y PREVENCION DEL CANCER DE MAMA ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN EDUCATION PROGRAM ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ellis Goodman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ellis Goodman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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