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The Witz Family Foundation at a glance

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The Witz Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$158k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$454kHuman Services$190kEducation$118kArts & Culture$110kRecreation & Sports$105kPhilanthropy$93kYouth Development$48kFood & Nutrition$47kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
$2,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Swedish Covenant Hospital Foundation$25,000
The Well Resource Center NFP$21,000
Bernie's Book Bank$20,000
United States Ski Team Foundation$15,000
American Heart Association Inc$7,500
Orchard Village$7,000
HCS Family Services$7,000
Lorenzo's house$5,080
Serbian American Medical Association SAMA INC$5,000
Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention$5,000
Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois$5,000
Hinsdale Hospital Foundation$5,000
Marine Raider Foundation$4,000
United Community Concerns Association$2,500
JDRF International$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $287k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Lutheran Child and Family Services of INKY Inc: $5k → 16%Rotary Club of Naperville Charities: $1k → 7%Ride Janie Ride Foundation: $1k → 7%Revive Center for Housing and Healing: $2k → 14%Lorenzo's house: $5k → 14%Misericordia Family Association: $11k → 14%Misericordia Foundation: $10k → 14%Misericordia Home: $3k → 14%Misericordia Home: $3k → 14%Erie Neighborhood House: $3k → 14%IBEW Local #134 Helping Hand Charitable Trust: $5k → 14%Concordia Place: $2k → 14%ORCHARD VILLAGE: $29k → 14%Orchard Village: $15k → 14%Orchard Village: $15k → 14%Orchard Village: $14k → 14%Orchard Village: $13k → 14%Orchard Village: $7k → 14%ORCHARD VILLAGE: $4k → 14%ORCHARD VILLAGE: $4k → 14%ORCHARD VILLAGE: $4k → 14%Childrens Home & Aid Society of ILL: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY: $3k → 14%CRASH: $3k → 14%CRASH: $2k → 14%The Well Resource Center NFP: $21k → 14%The Well Resource Center NFP: $21k → 14%The Well Resource Center NFP: $20k → 14%The Well Resource Center NFP: $20k → 14%THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 14%THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 14%The Well Resource Center NFP: $10k → 14%THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
MD
AZ
TN
GA
TX
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 38 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
30

Total granted

$1.1M
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+17%

Still filing today

87%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TW
    The Well Resource Center NFP
    8× · 2018–2025 · $122k · revenue +115%
  • US
    United States Ski Team Foundation
    8× · 2018–2025 · $105k · revenue +100%
  • OV
    ORCHARD VILLAGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • AM
    ADVENTIST MIDWEST HEALTH
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +9%
  • BI
    BOX IT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -93%
  • TF
    Turner Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
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
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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2
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
3
Mercy Foundation Inc

We, mercy health system of chicago and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy foundation is a member of mercy health system of chicago…

Philanthropy
4
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
5
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…

Health
6
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
7
Holy Cross Hospital

The hospital is a catholic health care organization sponsored by the sisters of st. casimir. by our commitment to witness to the healing mission of jesus, we contribute to healthy communities and promote quality health care to all with…

Health
8
Children's Hospital of Chicago Medical Center

We are dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for the northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a leader in: -pediatric health care delivery…

Health
9
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
10
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
11
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…

Health
12
University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation

The mission shall be to provide fundraising, advocacy, and advisory support for cancer research at the comprehensive cancer center at the university of chicago.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crash; the most unlike its peers is Pat Mac's Pack 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

65 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. 65 of the 78 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/65
Grantees still filing
46/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Swedish Covenant Hospital Foundation: $200,000 · HealthSwedish Covenant Hospital Foun…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $22,638 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCAmerican Heart Association Inc: $22,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc+14 more: $74,100 · Health+14 moreThe Well Resource Center NFP: $122,250 · Human ServicesThe Well Resource Center NF…ORCHARD VILLAGE: $102,000 · Human ServicesORCHARD VILLAGEMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $20,500 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $10,000 · Human Services+10 more: $32,580 · Human Services+10 moreHinsdale Family Foundation: $42,500 · OtherHinsdale Family Foundat…SKENDER FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherSKENDER FOUNDATIONSerbian American Medical Association: $15,000 · OtherSerbian American Medica…UNITED COMMUNITY CONCERNS ASSOCIATI: $11,000 · OtherLUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS: $10,000 · OtherROBERT A REAUMOND FOUNDATION: $13,500 · OtherROBERT A REAUMOND FOUND…DAISY DASH: $10,000 · OtherBOX IT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $17,500 · OtherGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DE…HCS FAMILY SERVICES: $17,000 · OtherHCS FAMILY SERVICES+23 more: $65,810 · Other+23 moreMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC: $95,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ASSO…THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHICAG…SALT CREEK BALLET COMPANY: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $3,033 · Arts & CultureUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $105,050 · Recreation & SportsUnited Sta…+1 more: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS: $31,500 · EducationACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC: $27,000 · EducationCHICAGOLAND ELECTRICAL ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 · EducationTHE GREEN HALO FOUNDATION: $4,500 · EducationPHILIP J ROCK CENTER AND SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Education+1 more: $1,500 · EducationBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $46,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth Development
Health$319,238Human Services$287,330Other$252,310Arts & Culture$113,033Recreation & Sports$107,550Education$74,000Youth Development$47,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSwedish Covenant Hospital Foundation: $200,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetThe Well Resource Center NFP: $122,250 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $105,050 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetORCHARD VILLAGE: $102,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC: $95,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $46,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSKENDER FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS: $31,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC: $27,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $22,638 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $20,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHCS FAMILY SERVICES: $17,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetROBERT A REAUMOND FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CONCERNS ASSOCIATI: $11,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEND A HEART FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetDAISY DASH: $10,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetADVENTIST MIDWEST HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOX IT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY ALLIANCE FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKS STRONG FOUNDATION: $6,900 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCHICAGOLAND ELECTRICAL ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 3y, 33% of budgetTHE SHALOM CENTRE OF AFRICA CO NUCOR CONSTRUCTION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTRATEGIC ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIBEW Local 134 Helping Hand Charitable Trust: $5,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetLEOPARDO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSALT CREEK BALLET COMPANY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF IN/KY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSERBIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SAMA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCRASH: $4,500 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetTHE GREEN HALO FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLOVE ENOUGH 4 U FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER: $3,033 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPHILIP J ROCK CENTER AND SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JACKSON CHANCE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUPAGE PADS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOVER THE RAINBOW ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIFT OF HOPE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Skender FoundationExecutive Constructio…Clune Cares Foundatio…Imc Chicago Charitabl…United Way of Metropo…AbbVie FoundationMotorola Solutions Fo…The Chicago Community…Turner Construction C…Dr Scholl FoundationThe Dupage Community …Usg Foundation Inc
Skender FoundationIL19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Skender Foundation · Executive Construction Foundation · Clune Cares Foundation Inc · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Turner Construction Company Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · Usg Foundation Inc

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 Witz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Witz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 78 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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