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The Robert and Yadelle Sklare Foundation at a glance

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The Robert and Yadelle Sklare Foundation

To foster, promote, support, develop, encourage and maintain the broad charitable, educational or religious purposes or functions of the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Science & Tech$1.0MCommunity Improvement$500kArts & Culture$58kInternational$43kEducation$20kPhilanthropy$20kFood & Nutrition$15k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC$1,000,000
HADASSAH THE WOMEN'S ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA INC$500,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Schechter Institutes Inc: $10k → 7%The Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity: $50k → 14%HADASSAH THE WOMEN'S ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA INC: $500k → 17%The Israel Project: $10k → 14%Friends of ELNET: $33k → 14%American Friends of Leket Israel: $15k → 7%AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $1.0M → 17%Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center: $8k → 14%American Committee for Weizmann Institute of Science: $10k → 17%Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago: $10k → 14%International March of the Living: $20k → 17%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 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.

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Sherit Isroel
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University of Judaism Foundation
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3
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
4
The Jerusalem Connection
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Friends of Institute for Zionist

The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…

International
6
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
7
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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8
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
9
Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc
Youth Development
10
Moskowitz Prize for Zionism Inc
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Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc. 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

10 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $1,010,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC+1 more: $33,000 · InternationalHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc: $500,000 · Community ImprovementHadassah The Women's Zionist Org o…CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $8,300 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING I: $20,000 · EducationTHE ISRAEL PROJECT: $10,000 · Other
International$1,043,000Community Improvement$500,000Arts & Culture$58,300Philanthropy$35,000Education$20,000Other$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $1,010,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY: $50,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET: $33,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ISRAEL PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $8,300 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Jewish Community Foun…Combined Jewish Phila…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Jewish Community Foundation of San DiegoCA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Robert and Yadelle Sklare Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert and Yadelle Sklare Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to The Robert and Yadelle Sklare Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Robert and Yadelle Sklare Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 10 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 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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