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The Marvin and Elaine Gottlieb Family Foundation at a glance

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The Marvin and Elaine Gottlieb Family 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.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$105kInternational$100kArts & Culture$82kEducation$55kHuman Services$49kHealth$41kScience & Tech$15kReligion$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$605k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Forward Momentum Chicago$10,000
American Friends of the Hebrew University$10,000
The Joffrey Ballet$6,500
Central Fund of Israel$5,000
Humanity Relief$5,000
Jewish Helping Hands Inc$5,000
Jupiter Medical Center Inc$2,500
Briarwood Scholarship Foundation$1,500
Genesis at the Crossroads$1,250
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 (FY22–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Humanity Relief: $5k → 14%First Up: $3k → 7%Humanity Relief: $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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$386k · 24 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
26

Total granted

$386k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+38%

Still filing today

46%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
InternationalHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman 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

  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +13%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +40%
  • FM
    FORWARD MOMENTUM CHICAGO
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • TL
    Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Found
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • II
    Illinois Institute of Technologygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +28%
  • WD
    Wiser Discretionary Fund Illinois Institute of Technology
    one grant, 2020 · $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.

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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

Federation amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place for everyone. we assist people in need, impact chicagoans of all faiths; support israel and the jewish people worldwide; respond swiftly to crises; cultivate…

Philanthropy
3
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
4
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
5
Jewish Child and Family Services

JCFS Chicago services and programs support wellbeing for children, teens, adults and families regardless of race, culture, religion, disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, or…

Human Services
6
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
7
University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
8
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
9
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
10
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
11
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
12
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Endeavor Health Clinical Operations. 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

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 52 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
21/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Joffrey Ballet of Chicago: $34,500 · OtherJoffrey Ballet of ChicagoJewish Foundation of Palm Beach: $24,000 · OtherJewish Foundation of Palm BeachTerri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation: $17,500 · OtherTerri Lynne Lokoff Child Care FoundationFriends United for Diabetes: $15,000 · OtherFriends United for DiabetesPlanned Parenthood: $11,300 · OtherPlanned ParenthoodIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherTerri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Found: $10,000 · OtherWiser Discretionary Fund Illinois Institute of Technology: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $8,500 · OtherRavinia: $7,500 · OtherRavina: $7,000 · Other+20 more: $43,400 · Other+20 moreTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $70,500 · InternationalTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $33,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNI…Central Fund of Israel: $20,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of IsraelJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $6,250 · International+3 more: $3,000 · InternationalJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $51,300 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUN…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $22,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION…+1 more: $1,750 · PhilanthropyFORWARD MOMENTUM CHICAGO: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFORWARD M…THE JOFFREY BALLET: $14,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JOFFR…+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureIllinois Institute of Technology: $10,000 · EducationCOLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES: $6,500 · EducationBRIARWOOD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $5,350 · EducationHUMANITY RELIEF: $8,000 · Human ServicesFIRST UP: $3,000 · Human ServicesJupiter Medical Center Inc: $7,900 · HealthSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1,500 · HealthEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $1,000 · Health
Other$198,700International$133,250Philanthropy$75,550Arts & Culture$40,000Education$21,850Human Services$11,000Health$10,400

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $70,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $51,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $33,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFORWARD MOMENTUM CHICAGO: $25,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANITY RELIEF: $8,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Inc: $7,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES: $6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $6,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRIARWOOD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $5,350 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFIRST UP: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGENESIS AT THE CROSSROADS INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPERTUS INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEROME GOLDEN CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJustin Bartlett Animal Resuce Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $500 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 THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds FORWARD MOMENTUM CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
  • Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds HUMANITY RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIARWOOD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FIRST UP ↗
  • Who funds GENESIS AT THE CROSSROADS INC ↗
  • Who funds SPERTUS INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds Resilience Partners NFP ↗

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.

Mills Family Charitab…Jewish Federation of …Lloyd a Fry FoundationThe Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Mills Family Charitable FoundationIL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mills Family Charitable Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Marvin and Elaine Gottlieb Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Marvin and Elaine Gottlieb Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 52 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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