· Private foundation
The Goldblatt Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k44 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $6,000 |
| MICHIANA HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO | $3,500 |
| HARRIS THEATRE | $3,000 |
| NEIGHBOR BY NEIGHBOR | $2,500 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS | $2,500 |
| ASPCA | $2,500 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS | $2,500 |
| ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY | $2,500 |
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 (FY22–25, $13k) 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 +52% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.
64 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ELENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +72%
University of Chicago5× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +56%- LOLyric Opera of Chicago9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINEone grant, 2022 · $18k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO FOREFRONT FUNDone grant, 2023 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
How this is measured
54 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. 54 of the 95 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 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGH JUMP ↗
- Who funds CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Neighbor by Neighbor ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds KESTREL FOUNDATION OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds BULAMU INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Berrien Community Foundation Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Goldblatt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Goldblatt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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