· Private foundation
The Lehman-Stamm Family Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k63 grants · $201k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $588k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICES | $70,000 |
| LAMBDA LEGAL | $37,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS | $25,000 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NPR FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NORTHLIGHT THEATER | $25,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS | $20,000 |
| CHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT | $17,500 |
| ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS PROJECT | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CENTER | $15,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $15,000 |
| WBEZ | $15,000 |
| CROSSROADS FUND | $15,000 |
| BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $15,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $42k) 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +28% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
112 repeat relationships: 58 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 32 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PPPlanned Parenthood of Illinois5× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +77%
- LLLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC3× · 2023–2025 · $114k · revenue +41%
- ELENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST5× · 2020–2025 · $98k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- YEYWCA Evanston North Shoreone grant, 2019 · $22k
- YEYWCA EvanstonNorth Shoreone grant, 2021 · $21k · revenue -55%
- NPNational Public Housing Museumone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
Equality illinois builds a better illinois by advancing equal treatment and social justice through education, advocacy and protection of the rights of the lgbt community.
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
The Network is a group of 40+ member organizations dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, public policy and advocacy, and connecting community members with direct service providers.…
Secure racial equity and economic opportunity for all
To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
The human rights campaign foundation is organized for the charitable and educational purposes of promoting public education and welfare for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (lgbtq+) community. the hrc foundation envisions…
How this is measured
105 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. 105 of the 250 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds THE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Evanston Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds The National Public Housing Museum ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds Howard Brown Health Center ↗
- Who funds NORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LAKE TANGANYIKA FLOATING HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds The Chicago Community Trust ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO ABORTION FUND ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON SCHOLARS ↗
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: The Kellcie Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago Foundation for Women · Northwestern University · Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lehman-Stamm Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lehman-Stamm Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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