Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO CENTER FOR JEWISH GENETIC DISORDERS
CHICAGO CENTER FOR JEWISH GENETIC DISORDERS (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $804,987 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ($404,987). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $515k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $805k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Chicago Center for Jewish Genetic Disorders does
Mission
The norton & elaine sarnoff center for jewish genetics (the center) is an educational resource for hereditary cancers and jewish genetic disorders. Working closely with clergy, health care professionals, support organizations and dedicated individuals, the center strives to inform community members and raise awareness of available options, including its own subsidized genetic counseling and screening program, so they can plan for a healthy future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We translate laboratory discoveries into accessible information for the jewish community, health care providers, rabbis and the general public while striving to raise awareness through education, screening and prevention programs, an information and referral help line, and advocacy. Goals and objectives we serve: -the public and jewish community -physicians -health professionals -rabbis our goals to provide: -community education and awareness -professional education -screening and prevention programs -information and referral -advocacy our objectives: -create outreach programs to community members and rabbis -develop educational programs for physicians, health professionals & students -become a clearinghouse for a full range of services -provide information on current research and treatment -work with other organizations in chicago and around the world -facilitate exchange of information nationally and internationally -incorporate ethical issues from within the jewish community -inform public policy for improving health care
$549,519 spent$21,271 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $549,519.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $1.5M (+22%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of CHICAGO CENTER FOR JEWISH GENETIC DISORDERS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Edward Linn
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $57k → $196k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CHICAGO CENTER FOR JEWISH GENETIC DISORDERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CHICAGO CENTER FOR JEWISH GENETIC DISORDERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHICAGO CENTER FOR JEWISH GENETIC DISORDERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 59% · 2022 59% · 2023 51% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
50% of CHICAGO CENTER FOR JEWISH GENETIC DISORDERS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $400k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $405k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CHICAGO CENTER FOR JEWISH GENETIC DISORDERS receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $805k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHICAGO CENTER FOR JEWISH GENETIC DISORDERS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 42 related entities
- Albert and Lucille Delighter & Marcella Winston Foundation · exempt
- Bellows Family Foundation · exempt
- Bls Family Foundation · exempt
- Bucksbaum Family Foundation · exempt
- Charles & Audrey Dann Charitable Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHICAGO CENTER FOR JEWISH GENETIC DISORDERS?
- CHICAGO CENTER FOR JEWISH GENETIC DISORDERS (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $804,987 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ($404,987). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHICAGO CENTER FOR JEWISH GENETIC DISORDERS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $804,987 in grants to CHICAGO CENTER FOR JEWISH GENETIC DISORDERS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO CENTER FOR JEWISH GENETIC DISORDERS?
- JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO is the largest funder on record, with $404,987 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO CENTER FOR JEWISH GENETIC DISORDERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing