· Private foundation
The Kotel 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL GIFTS THEATER | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 60% of The Kotel Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 42% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 20%.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GPGIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +117%
- SGSPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +20%
- CCLEARBROOK3× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- CRCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $24k
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +44%
- SCSYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CNTRone 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.
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.
To provide financial support to families with children battling cancer.
To support, perform services for, and at all-times operate exclusively for the benefit of special olympics, inc.
To raise awareness for those with autism syndrome disorder (asd) by providing assistance, resources, support, and education to children with autism syndrome disorder (asd) and their families.
Creating social interaction for children with all abilities through enabling playgrounds and programs designed to meet their special needs.
To grant the wishes of seriously / terminally ill children.
Gio's garden's mission as a non-profit organization is to nurture and strengthen families with children with special needs (birth through 6 years) by increasing their access to needed services.
The izzy foundation is a national non-profit located in providence rhode island whose mission is to design, fund and izspire cretive projects and programs for families whose children have cancer or other life altering medical conditions to…
The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…
To fund cystic fibrosis research, provide educational and personal support, and to spread awareness of cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic disease.
Autism Citizen provides education about autism for attorneys, gov, & business. It advocates for the rights of autistic individuals when seeking professionals trained to understand this growing population. It provides free information to…
PINKBALL is an organization founded by "baseball moms" who were moved to create a fund for screening and diagnostic mammograms and breast ultrasounds for women in our community who are uninsured or under insured who may not qualify for…
The purpose of the Pink Agenda Inc is to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 25 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 FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PANDAS PANS ADVOCACY AND SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds CLEARBROOK ↗
- Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kotel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kotel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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