· Private foundation
The Judelson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $146k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $172k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $72,623 |
| LOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT | $25,000 |
| DEERFIELD ACADEMY | $17,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| ARTISTS SPACE | $13,000 |
| FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE | $12,500 |
| SWISS INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $12,000 |
| DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $12,000 |
| CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS | $10,000 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $10,000 |
| LINCOLN PARK ZOO | $10,000 |
| NOURISHING HOPE | $10,000 |
| RX ART | $7,500 |
| SKILLS FOR CHICAGOLANDS FUTURE | $7,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
University of Arizona Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +109%- TOTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY6× · 2018–2024 · $31k · revenue +77%
- ASARTISTS SPACE INC4× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +259%
Funded once
- TDTHE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT Xone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -35%
- SISWISS INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -21%
- FOFRIENDS OF ARTISTS SPACEone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Lookingglass theatre company is a national leader in the creation and presentation of innovative, cutting-edge theatrical work. lookingglass interweaves movement, circus arts and narrative in original and captivating ways. guided by an…
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan and the most unlike its peers is The Joe Namath Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 82 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RX ART INC ↗
- Who funds DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CONTEMPORARY ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X ↗
- Who funds SKILLS FOR CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds PERFORMA INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Mary Meyer School ↗
- Who funds TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TONO FESTIVAL INC ↗
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: Quinn Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Marieluise Hessel Foundation · The Dorothea Lleonhardt Foundation Inc · Via Art Fund Inc · Arison Arts Foundation · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Lloyd a Fry 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 Judelson Family Foundation 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.
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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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