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The Joseph B Glossberg Foundation at a glance

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The Joseph B Glossberg 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.

$152k
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$809kEducation$639kHealth$78kInternational$32kCivil Rights$32kPhilanthropy$25kHuman Services$19kPublic Benefit$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k41 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$71k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$35,000
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$19,667
MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC$10,000
BARSTOW & REED SOCIETYCLEVELAND CLINIC$10,000
CATO INSTITUTE$5,000
JAZZ INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$5,000
JUF$5,000
HYDE PARK JAZZ FESTIVAL$3,000
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$3,000
LEAGUE OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS$2,500
EVANS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$2,500
LOBLOLLY FOUNDATION$2,500
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$1,800
NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,800
02The need
03

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 (FY21–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 10%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $1k → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS: $3k → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS: $2k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CHICAGO: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
KS
DC
GA
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 91 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

91 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

91
56

Total granted

$1.4M
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+26%

Still filing today

53%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CS
    Chicago Symphony Orchestra
    8× · 2018–2025 · $427k · revenue +54%
  • MS
    MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $205k · revenue +36%
  • University of Chicago
    7× · 2018–2025 · $117k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • MC
    MARTIN COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • CF
    Chicago Filmmakers
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -14%
  • WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +0%
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.

1
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
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
4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
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
6
United States Naval Institute

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.

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7
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
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 National Guild for Community Arts Education Inc; the most unlike its peers is Enchanted Backpack. 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

85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 154 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/85
Grantees still filing
66/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Chicago Symphony Orchestra: $426,600 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony OrchestraMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $205,000 · Arts & CultureMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSICJazz Institute of Chicago: $52,794 · Arts & CultureJazz Institute of Chicago+19 more: $97,871 · Arts & Culture+19 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $471,867 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANI…University of Chicago: $117,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoKNOX COLLEGE: $32,000 · Education+14 more: $91,177 · Education+14 moreJUF: $57,000 · OtherJUFCLEVELAND CLINIC: $40,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINICBARSTOW & REED SOCIETYCLEVELAND CLINIC: $20,000 · OtherBARSTOW & REED SOC…KNOX: $16,000 · OtherLOBLOLLY FOUNDATION: $13,000 · Other+97 more: $175,332 · Other+97 moreCHANGING WORLDS: $18,170 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $12,300 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $3,030 · Civil RightsTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $31,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,210 · InternationalHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $9,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $7,900 · PhilanthropyLOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,485 · PhilanthropyFOREFRONT: $2,675 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyCATO INSTITUTE: $20,000 · Public Benefit+2 more: $700 · Public Benefit
Arts & Culture$782,265Education$712,044Other$321,332Civil Rights$33,500International$32,210Philanthropy$24,560Public Benefit$20,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $471,867 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $426,600 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $205,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $117,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJazz Institute of Chicago: $52,794 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetKNOX COLLEGE: $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $31,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHyde Park Jazz Festival: $22,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOXFORD ACADEMY INC: $18,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCHANGING WORLDS: $18,170 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $12,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $12,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Filmmakers: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKENT SCHOOL: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $9,450 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $8,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $8,060 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $7,900 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $6,116 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $5,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInvest for Kids Inc: $5,169 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $4,607 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,485 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMENLO COLLEGE: $3,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $3,329 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $3,030 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChiArts Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Economic Club of Chicago: $2,981 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOREFRONT: $2,675 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $2,375 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $2,010 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $1,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUSGA FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO JAZZ ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Jazz Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds KNOX COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
  • Who funds Hyde Park Jazz Festival ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds OXFORD ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHANGING WORLDS ↗
  • Who funds THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Filmmakers ↗
  • Who funds KENT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
  • Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
  • Who funds THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
  • Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗

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.

The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Arie and Ida Crown Me…Circle of Service Fou…The Robert Thomas Bob…Lloyd a Fry FoundationNcrc Community Develo…The Ayco Charitable F…Dr Scholl FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …Zell Family FoundationFrank Family Foundati…
The Chicago Community TrustIL28.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Zell Family Foundation · Frank Family 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 Joseph B Glossberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joseph B Glossberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Florida Sheriffs Association Inc: 4% of income from government
  • United Way of Martin County Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Banner Lake Club Inc: 1% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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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How do I get to The Joseph B Glossberg Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Joseph B Glossberg Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 154 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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