Illinois · Nonprofit
Jewish Free Loan Chicago Inc
Jewish Free Loan Chicago Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $547,862 to it, the largest being Jumpstart Labs Inc FKA JEWISHJUMPSTART DBA Jewish JUMPSTART JSLABS ($257,122). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Jewish Free Loan Chicago Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,754 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Charles and M R Shapiro Foundation Incshared funders
- Menachem & Ahuva Shabat Family Foundation INCportfolio match
- Sheldon and Freda Robinson Charitable Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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.
100% of Jewish Free Loan Chicago Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $266k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Jewish Free Loan Chicago Inc’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
Jewish Free Loan Chicago Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 Jewish Free Loan Chicago Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 94% — 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
Jewish Free Loan Chicago Inc draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $153k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Charles and M R Shapiro Foundation Incshared fundersIL · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- Menachem & Ahuva Shabat Family Foundation INCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sheldon and Freda Robinson Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lev Zahav NFPportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Noah Wolff Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Campbell Foundation For Charitable Givingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lets Make It Happen Ny Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Elishis Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joseph and Martha Melohn Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ben-Abou Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Jewish Free Loan Chicago Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Jewish Free Loan Chicago Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Jewish Free Loan Chicago Inc?
- Jewish Free Loan Chicago Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $547,862 to it, the largest being Jumpstart Labs Inc FKA JEWISHJUMPSTART DBA Jewish JUMPSTART JSLABS ($257,122). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Jewish Free Loan Chicago Inc have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $547,862 in grants to Jewish Free Loan Chicago Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Jewish Free Loan Chicago Inc?
- Jumpstart Labs Inc FKA JEWISHJUMPSTART DBA Jewish JUMPSTART JSLABS is the largest funder on record, with $257,122 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Jewish Free Loan Chicago Inc 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing