Illinois · Nonprofit
THE MANDEKO FOUNDATION
THE MANDEKO FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,422,047 to it, the largest being THE TAMEAD FOUNDATION ($11,172,047). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $13M
What The Mandeko Foundation does
Mission
The foundation is organized to foster, promote, support, develop, and maintain the broad, charitable, educational or religious purpose or functions as authorized by the charter of the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago and the by-laws of the foundation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The foundation makes grants to charitable organizations which are tax exempt under the irc section 501(c)(3) and meet the guidelines of the charter of the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago & the by-laws of the foundation.
$1,200,000 spentof which $1,200,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,200,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $11M to $13M (+14%).
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.
82% of THE MANDEKO FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 THE MANDEKO FOUNDATION’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
THE MANDEKO FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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
48% 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 THE MANDEKO FOUNDATION.
“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
THE MANDEKO FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M 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
THE MANDEKO FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE MANDEKO FOUNDATION
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
95% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MANDEKO FOUNDATION: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MANDEKO FOUNDATION?
- THE MANDEKO FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,422,047 to it, the largest being THE TAMEAD FOUNDATION ($11,172,047). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MANDEKO FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $21,422,047 in grants to THE MANDEKO FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MANDEKO FOUNDATION?
- THE TAMEAD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,172,047 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MANDEKO FOUNDATION 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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