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The Okner-Robbins Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$204k
Granted FY2023
20
Grants FY2023
20
Organizations funded FY2023
30%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$21,573
Organizations funded a year
19 to 25
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations The Okner-Robbins Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202320$204k30%
FY202219$133k37%
FY202119$146k47%
FY202025$186kn/a
59% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Religion$241kEducation$63kHealth$38kHuman Services$34kPhilanthropy$24kCivil Rights$3kInternational$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chicago Community Kollel Inc$68,0004n/a
Chicago Center for Torah & Chesed Inc$60,0004n/a
Chicago Chesed Fund$30,00030%
Keshet$25,00040%
Chai Lifeline Inc$10,75020%
Shalva Inc$3,00030%
Rochelle Zell Jewish High School$2,50010%
100 Thousand Foundation$2,00012%
Ohel Tefillah$1,8001n/a
Lake County Crisis Center$50010%

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($465k), not named here.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About The Okner-Robbins Foundation

How much does The Okner-Robbins Foundation give?
The Okner-Robbins Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $203,673 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Okner-Robbins Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (36%), Education (9%), Health (6%).
Who are The Okner-Robbins Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Chicago Community Kollel Inc ($68k), Chicago Center for Torah & Chesed Inc ($60k), Chicago Chesed Fund ($30k).
Does The Okner-Robbins Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Okner-Robbins Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Okner-Robbins Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Okner-Robbins Foundation based?
The Okner-Robbins Foundation is based in IL.

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 47 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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