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NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN CHICAGO NORTH SHORE SECTION

NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN CHICAGO NORTH SHORE SECTION (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,727 to it, the largest being Arlene Leff Foundation ($82,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$85k
Revenue FY2025
16
Funders on record
$192k
Grants received
$285k
Net assets
9/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 94%

Against its field

NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN CHICAGO NORTH SHORE SECTION has grown faster than half of the 5,862 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−10% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,862 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($90k) Expenses 100 ($68k) Net assets 100 ($160k)2022 Revenue 134 ($121k) Expenses 123 ($83k) Net assets 117 ($188k)2023 Revenue 142 ($128k) Expenses 119 ($81k) Net assets 150 ($241k)2024 Revenue 129 ($117k) Expenses 127 ($86k) Net assets 175 ($281k)2025 Revenue 95 ($85k) Expenses 139 ($94k) Net assets 178 ($285k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (95)Expenses (139)Net assets (178)Peer revenue range

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

73% of NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN CHICAGO NORTH SHORE SECTION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,189 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
21
$38k
22
$47k
23
$30k
24
$9k
25
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $1k → $120k.

3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)26% 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 NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN CHICAGO NORTH SHORE SECTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 funders by total. 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

NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN CHICAGO NORTH SHORE SECTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

41% 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 NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN CHICAGO NORTH SHORE SECTION.

43%
largest funder
70%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 41% · 2020 43% · 2021 63% · 2022 93% · 2023 68%growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

13% of NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN CHICAGO NORTH SHORE SECTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

79% of NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN CHICAGO NORTH SHORE SECTION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
NY
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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19
20
21
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23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN CHICAGO NORTH SHORE SECTION

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN CHICAGO NORTH SHORE SECTION: 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.

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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 NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN CHICAGO NORTH SHORE SECTION?
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN CHICAGO NORTH SHORE SECTION (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,727 to it, the largest being Arlene Leff Foundation ($82,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN CHICAGO NORTH SHORE SECTION have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $191,727 in grants to NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN CHICAGO NORTH SHORE SECTION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN CHICAGO NORTH SHORE SECTION?
Arlene Leff Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $82,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN CHICAGO NORTH SHORE SECTION 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 16funders 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