How much does The Grossinger Foundation give?

The Grossinger Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $185,901 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 56 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does The Grossinger Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Philanthropy (17%), Health (16%).

Who are The Grossinger Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($225k), The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired ($129k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago ($118k).

Does The Grossinger Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Grossinger 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 The Grossinger Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, The Chicago Community Trust, AbbVie Foundation.

Where is The Grossinger Foundation based?

The Grossinger Foundation is based in IL.

The Grossinger Foundation

The Grossinger Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Grossinger 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.

$186k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$80k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$308kPhilanthropy$261kHealth$255kYouth Development$128kArts & Culture$120kFood & Nutrition$80kHuman Services$39kReligion$32kOther$0

02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $46k
$10k–50k5 grants · $60k
$50k–250k1 grant · $80k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO	$80,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO INC	$15,000
THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE	$15,000
INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND SOUL	$10,000
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION	$10,000
HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL	$10,000
THE LYON FAMILY FOUNDATION	$7,500
THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC	$6,044
CONGREGATION OHEV SHALOM	$5,026
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES	$5,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND - KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL - INC	$5,000
MOD COLLECTIVE	$5,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER ORLANDO INC	$3,000
WHITE STORK - UNITED STATES LTD	$2,581
FOR AUTISTIC KIDS FOUNDATION	$2,500

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.3M · 43 repeat orgs$192k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+31%

Still filing today

67%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

JU
JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
8× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +13%
THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED
8× · 2017–2025 · $129k · revenue +61%
BA
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO
7× · 2017–2025 · $118k · revenue +39%

Funded once

LC
LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO
one grant, 2017 · $20k
UO
University of Chicago McLean Center
one grant, 2021 · $13k
CC
CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $10k

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.

Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science

Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education

Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Loyola University of Chicago

We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.

Education

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

Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health

Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired; the most unlike its peers is The Lyon Family Foundation. 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

69 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. 69 of the 127 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

68/69

Grantees still filing

50/69

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$661,701Philanthropy$250,672Education$212,850Human Services$152,725Youth Development$126,896Arts & Culture$91,823Health$67,730

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.

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.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL27.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · The Lyon Family Foundation · The Kadens Family Foundation · Jarvis Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Baxter International Foundation

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 Grossinger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Grossinger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home