· Private foundation
The Jessica Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $90,000 |
| CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN | $80,000 |
| CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC | $35,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC | $24,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| THE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYHOUSE | $12,000 |
| STANDWITHUS | $11,120 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,675 |
| MAMAN NONPROFIT | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC AND NEROLOGIC FUNCTION | $10,000 |
| BARNARD COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE SHALOM | $8,990 |
| JUSTICE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC | $8,000 |
| IMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $35k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
42 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 14 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CTCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC8× · 2017–2025 · $793k · revenue +35%
- MOMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART9× · 2017–2025 · $707k · revenue +0%
BARNARD COLLEGE6× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANone grant, 2024 · $15k
- NRNEW ROADS SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +9%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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 association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art
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.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Theatre Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Parker Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 109 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MITZVAH MATTERS ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds Maman Nonprofit ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Erikson Institute ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ZAWADI INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ROADS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC ↗
- Who funds Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC AND NEUROLOGICAL FUNCTION ↗
- Who funds THE PARKER FUND ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Annenberg Foundation · John H Hart Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Jessica Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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