· Private foundation
The Jerome Mirza 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.
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 $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $187k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $330k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE TINERVIN FAMILY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS | $125,000 |
| U OF I COLLEGE OF LAW | $100,000 |
| ILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| JUDD GOLDMAN ADAPTIVE SAILING FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR | $35,000 |
| PUBLIC INTEREST LAW INITIATIVE | $35,000 |
| PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES | $25,000 |
| PRAIRIE FIRE THEATRE | $25,000 |
| ILLINOIS BAR FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| KNOX COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| MUSIC CONNECTIONS FOUNDATION | $17,478 |
| ILLINIOIS SUPREME COURT HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
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 +84% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $921k · revenue +370%
- JGJUDD GOLDMAN ADAPTIVE SAILING FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $336k · revenue +84%
- HSHOLIDAY SPECTACULAR INC8× · 2018–2025 · $275k · revenue +22% · 57% of their budget
Funded once
- WTWILMETTE THEATREone grant, 2019 · $29k
- ISILLINOIS SUPREME COURT HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSIONone grant, 2017 · $25k
- ISILLINOIS SUPREME COURT HISTORICone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra's mission as a professional orchestra is to utilize the universal expression of music to create profound, inspiring, and personal connections between the people and communities of Chicagos Southland.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Public education on current public policy issues
To promote the arts and provide an information system for and about the arts.
Presenting free high-quality classical music performances and music education experiences in the Chicago metropolitan area for people of all ages and degrees of musical awareness so they can experience how music enriches life.
The illinois equal justice foundation funds civil legal aid in illinois to champion the rights of those burdened by barriers to justice. we envision equitable access to and navigation of the illinois civil legal system.
The objectives of the Association shall be to: uphold the Constitution of the United States of America and the State of Illinois; secure and protect the rights of those injured in their persons or civil rights; defend trial by jury and the…
Advance illinois was founded in 2008 as an independent policy and advocacy organization that works toward a heathy public education system that prepares students to achieve success in college, career, and civic life. advance illinois is…
The illinois association for gifted children empowers educators, families and communities by advancing effective practices, programs and policies to promote the development of gifted and talented children throughout illinois.
Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 27 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 CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Gifted ↗
- Who funds JUDD GOLDMAN ADAPTIVE SAILING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR INC ↗
- Who funds Public Interest Law Initiative ↗
- Who funds THE TINERVIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Illinois Bar Foundation ↗
- Who funds Prairie Fire Theatre ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KNOX COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MUSIC CONNECTIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN UNIVERSITY AKA LINCOLN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LIFELONG ACCESS ↗
- Who funds THE LINCOLN ACADEMY OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds The Illinois State Historical Society ↗
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: Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jerome Mirza Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jerome Mirza Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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