Funding search · EIN 363330462 · Chicago, IL

Crown Family Foundation

Name: Crown Family Foundation grants, 2021–2024
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

113
grants reported: $139.8M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $225,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Jewish United Fund / Federation of Metropolitan Chicago core funding
Jewish day school tuition assistance across Chicago area schools
Covenant Foundation general operating support, year after year
Israel programs: high-tech, Arab-Israeli inclusion, university scholarships
Jewish social services in Chicago: food, elderly, disability, addiction
Holocaust memory and education, including USC Shoah Foundation archive

Typical grant

Median grant is $225,000 and the middle half runs $100,000 to $750,000, but the distribution is extremely top-heavy. Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago takes $9 million to $17 million every single year, Covenant Foundation takes $5.5 million to $6.4 million every single year, and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago has taken up to $12.5 million. Below that tier, day schools get repeat annual grants in the $93,000 to $950,000 band, and most other grantees appear two or three years running at stable amounts.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“General Operating Support”
“Tuition Assistance”
“Tuition Accessibility Partnership Funds”
“High-Tech Entrepreneurship”
“Diversity in High-Tech in Acre and Hura”
“Scholarships”

Positioning adjacent work

Anchor to the Israeli high-tech and Arab-inclusion line: Bridge-Tech, Hassoub Garage, Nujum AI, Matei digital Arab education.
Ask $100,000 to $250,000 for a first grant; the seven-figure tier is reserved for standing partners.
Route Israeli university or research work through a US friends organization; they funded five of these at $750,000 each in 2022.
Frame the ask as general operating support or scholarships, not a discrete project with a novel structure.

Worth knowing: Three institutions (JUF, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, and Covenant Foundation) absorb roughly three quarters of all dollars, and the rest goes to a stable roster of Chicago Jewish day schools and service agencies that reappear annually. This is relationship-driven family giving inside the Chicago and New York Jewish institutional world; nearly every recipient is a Jewish organization, and the small handful of exceptions (WTTW, Facing History) still trace to Holocaust education or local civic ties.

1 grant matching “computer science education” · $9.2M

$9.2M
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2021
Laboratories for STEM education, Bridge Tech in the Negev and Kfar Kassem, General Operating Support, Upscaling Decentralized Wastewater Treatment and Reuse, 1M for Tech-Start Program, 300K for Negev Trailblazers for Be… read allLaboratories for STEM education, Bridge Tech in the Negev and Kfar Kassem, General Operating Support, Upscaling Decentralized Wastewater Treatment and Reuse, 1M for Tech-Start Program, 300K for Negev Trailblazers for Bedouin, The Tamar Technological High School: Extra teaching/mentoring hours ($250K/year) and supplies and equipment ($50K/year), Co-Tech Program the STEM Teacher and Student Prep and Gap Year program, Hasoub Garage, Diversity in Hi-Tech, Al Kavasa for High-Tech, Enter High-Tech and Excel in High-Tech, To establish small grants fund, to help house young Ethiopian alim without family in Israel, Admas Higher Education Program, Hospital Training Program, Young Business Leadership, Top 15 Collaborative, Computer Science Matriculation and General Operating Support, Full Stack and DevNet Courses, 200K for Masar Bridge to High Tech Program; 200K for General Operating Support, EMSB Marine Sciences Research less

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago3 grants · $41.2M
Covenant Foundation3 grants · $17.7M
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago1 grant · $15.0M
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago3 grants · $12.8M
Jerusalem Foundation1 grant · $6.5M
Covenant Foundation1 grant · $6.4M
Jewish Federations of North America2 grants · $4.7M
Hillel Torah North Suburban Day School3 grants · $3.2M
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago1 grant · $2.0M
Solomon Schechter Day School of Metropolitan Chicago3 grants · $1.7M

Giving over time

$35.3M

2021

$46.2M

2022

$28.8M

2023

$29.5M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 113 grants.

$16.9M
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Hebrew language instruction, Bridge Tech in the Negev and Kfar Kassem, physician fellowships, Co-Tech Program, High-tech Entrepreneurship and for Hassoub garage capital project, Diversity in High-Tech in Acre and Hura, … read allHebrew language instruction, Bridge Tech in the Negev and Kfar Kassem, physician fellowships, Co-Tech Program, High-tech Entrepreneurship and for Hassoub garage capital project, Diversity in High-Tech in Acre and Hura, AlKavsaa program for Negev and East Jerusalem, Summer Camps in FSU, Enter High-Tech and Excel in High-Tech, The Admas program for Ethiopian Israeli STEM university students, Portland Trust for Arab high-tech employment, Aaron Institute's Center for Economic Policy for the Israeli Arab Society, Netivot Campus - capital grant, Full Stack and DevNet Courses, training in the periphery, and general operating support CRM system. less
$15.1M
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
General Operating Support, High-Tech Field Surveying & Tools, Bridge-Tech Program, Emergency support for lost USAID funding, Arab centers of Excellence, Arab High-Tech programs, Nujum AI project, Physician fellowships, … read allGeneral Operating Support, High-Tech Field Surveying & Tools, Bridge-Tech Program, Emergency support for lost USAID funding, Arab centers of Excellence, Arab High-Tech programs, Nujum AI project, Physician fellowships, For Habayta and the Open Valley Tech Hub, Diversity in High-Tech in Acre and Hura, Summer Camps in the Former Soviet Union, Admas Higher Education Program, Resala Tech, IRIS Project, Arab excellence programs, Arab STEM education programs, Center in Baqa al-Gharibyye, Haile Scale project at Reichman University, Full Stack and DevNet Courses less
$15.0M
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
Hebrew language instruction, general operating support, tths: extra teaching/mentoring hours, high-tech entrepreneurship and for hassoub garage capital project, diversity in high-tech in acre and hura, internship progra… read allHebrew language instruction, general operating support, tths: extra teaching/mentoring hours, high-tech entrepreneurship and for hassoub garage capital project, diversity in high-tech in acre and hura, internship program / negev and east jerusalem, enter high-tech and excel in high-tech, haile scale project at reichman university, internship program for high-tech juniors, bedouin women and druze men high-tech, israel at war emergency fund less
$12.5M
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2021
Chicago Jewish Day School Capital Campaign, LiveSecure, EZRA Passthrough, Holocaust Community Services- CJE Passthrough, Israel Studies on Campus, Israel Education Center
$9.2M
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2021
Laboratories for STEM education, Bridge Tech in the Negev and Kfar Kassem, General Operating Support, Upscaling Decentralized Wastewater Treatment and Reuse, 1M for Tech-Start Program, 300K for Negev Trailblazers for Be… read allLaboratories for STEM education, Bridge Tech in the Negev and Kfar Kassem, General Operating Support, Upscaling Decentralized Wastewater Treatment and Reuse, 1M for Tech-Start Program, 300K for Negev Trailblazers for Bedouin, The Tamar Technological High School: Extra teaching/mentoring hours ($250K/year) and supplies and equipment ($50K/year), Co-Tech Program the STEM Teacher and Student Prep and Gap Year program, Hasoub Garage, Diversity in Hi-Tech, Al Kavasa for High-Tech, Enter High-Tech and Excel in High-Tech, To establish small grants fund, to help house young Ethiopian alim without family in Israel, Admas Higher Education Program, Hospital Training Program, Young Business Leadership, Top 15 Collaborative, Computer Science Matriculation and General Operating Support, Full Stack and DevNet Courses, 200K for Masar Bridge to High Tech Program; 200K for General Operating Support, EMSB Marine Sciences Research less
$6.5M
Jerusalem Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support and Rebecca Crown Theatre
$6.4M
Covenant Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General Operating Support
$6.4M
Covenant Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$5.8M
Covenant Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support
$5.5M
Covenant Foundation · New York, NY · 2021
General Operating Support
$3.3M
Jewish Federations of North America · New York, NY · 2021
LiveSecure ($3mil); Israel Action Network ($250K)
$2.1M
Hillel Torah North Suburban Day School · Skokie, IL · 2022
General operating support
$2.0M
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
Ezra, holocaust community services, israel education center, new directions fund, rebecca copeland fund for social justice
$1.6M
Birthright Israel Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support and tour educator training & onward israel
$1.5M
American Friends of Tel Aviv University · New York, NY · 2022
Scholarships and General operating support
$1.5M
Jewish Child and Family Services · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
General Operating Support and JVS for the Duman Center
$1.4M
Jewish Federations of North America · New York, NY · 2024
Community Relations
$1.2M
Council for Jewish Elderly Senior Life · Chicago, IL · 2022
General operating support and home delivered meals
$1.0M
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Shoah foundation visual archive
$1.0M
American Friends of Magen David Adom · New York, NY · 2022
Marcus National Blood Center capital campaign match
$1.0M
Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies · Paramus, NJ · 2022
General operating support
$1.0M
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
Shoah Foundation Visual Archive
$952,514
Hillel Torah North Suburban Day School · Skokie, IL · 2024
Tuition Assistance, Tuition Accessibility Partnership Funds funding for the 2024-2025 School Year
$908,336
Solomon Schechter Day School of Metropolitan Chicago · Northbrook, IL · 2024
Tuition Assistance, Tuition Accessibility Partnership Funds funding for the 2024-2025 School Year
$867,315
Chicago Jewish Day School · Chicago, IL · 2024
Tuition Assistance, Tuition Accessibility Partnership Funds funding for the 2024-2025 School Year
$825,000
The Ark · Chicago, IL · 2024
General Operating Support
$750,000
America Friends of Hebrew University · New York, NY · 2022
Scholarships
$750,000
American Friends of Bar Ilan University · New York, NY · 2022
Scholarships
$750,000
American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology · New York, NY · 2022
Scholarships
$750,000
American Society of the University of Haifa · New York, NY · 2022
Scholarships
$750,000
Americans for Ben Gurion University · New York, NY · 2022
Scholarships
$636,063
Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School · Chicago, IL · 2024
Tuition Assistance, Tuition Accessibility Partnership Funds funding for the 2024-2025 School Year
$600,000
Keshet · Northbrook, IL · 2022
General operating support
$500,000
Facing History and Ourselves · Boston, MA · 2022
General operating support
$500,000
Hillel Foundation for Jewish Campus Life · Washington, DC · 2021
Hillel Insights Fellowship
$455,000
Shalva · Chicago, IL · 2022
General operating support
$450,000
Associated Talmud Torahs · Skokie, IL · 2022
Reach
$412,500
Solomon Schechter Day School of Metropolitan Chicago · Northbrook, IL · 2021
Tuition Assistance
$400,000
The Ark · Chicago, IL · 2022
General operating support
$375,000
Beit Tshuvah · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Clergy Training Program
$366,137
Akiba Schechter - Jewish Day School · Chicago, IL · 2024
Tuition Assistance, Tuition Accessibility Partnership Funds funding for the 2024-2025 School Year
$350,000
Ecopeace Middle East Environmental Ngo Forum · Alexandria, VA · 2021
Lower Jordan River Valley Redevelopment
$343,750
Solomon Schechter Day School of Metropolitan Chicago · Northbrook, IL · 2023
Tuition assistance
$343,750
Solomon Schechter Day School of Metropolitan Chicago · Northbrook, IL · 2022
General operating support
$332,500
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
The Israel Studies on Campus program, Fund for the Future, Jewish Community Fund for Adults with Disabilities
$300,000
Maot Chitim · Northbrook, IL · 2024
General Operating Support
$300,000
Hebrew Union College · Cincinnati, OH · 2023
Rabbinical scholarships
$300,000
Union for Reform Judaism · Oconomowoc, WI · 2023
Osrui - capital campaign
$300,000
Friends of the Idf · New York, NY · 2022
IMPACT! Funding
$300,000
Beit Tshuvah · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
Elaine Breslow Institute: Leadership Institute Mentors
$250,000
Jewish Federations of North America · New York, NY · 2023
Community relations
$250,000
American Friends of Magen David Adom · New York, NY · 2021
Marcus Blood Center
$240,000
Yeshivat Maharat · Bronx, NY · 2023
General operating support
$237,500
Friends of Elnet · New York, NY · 2024
General Operating Support
$225,000
American Friends of Start Up Nation Central · New York, NY · 2022
Start-Up Nation Policy Institute
$225,000
Chicago Jewish Day School · Chicago, IL · 2021
Tuition Assistance
$225,000
Rochelle Zell Jewish High School · Deerfield, IL · 2021
Tuition Assistance
$200,000
Maot Chitim · Northbrook, IL · 2022
General operating support
$200,000
Yeshivat Maharat · Bronx, NY · 2021
General Operating Support
$196,875
Rochelle Zell Jewish High School · Deerfield, IL · 2024
Tuition Assistance
$187,500
Chicago Jewish Day School · Chicago, IL · 2023
Tuition assistance
$187,500
Rochelle Zell Jewish High School · Deerfield, IL · 2023
Tuition assistance
$187,500
Chicago Jewish Day School · Chicago, IL · 2022
General operating support
$187,500
Rochelle Zell Jewish High School · Deerfield, IL · 2022
General operating support
$180,000
Matan · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support
$155,000
Jewish National Fund (Karen Kayemeth Leisrael Inc) · Northbrook, IL · 2021
Hatzeva Water Recycling Project (150K); Aleh Negev (5K)
$150,000
Akiba Schechter - Jewish Day School · Chicago, IL · 2021
Tuition Assistance
$150,000
Arie Crown Hebrew Day School · Skokie, IL · 2021
Tuition Assistance
$150,000
Friends of Elnet · New York, NY · 2021
General Operating Support
$150,000
Hillel Torah North Suburban Day School · Skokie, IL · 2021
Tuition Assistance
$150,000
Ida Crown Jewish Academy · Skokie, IL · 2021
Tuition Assistance
$131,250
Arie Crown Hebrew Day School · Skokie, IL · 2024
Tuition Assistance
$131,250
Ida Crown Jewish Academy · Skokie, IL · 2024
Tuition Assistance
$125,000
Institute for Jewish Enrichment · Chicago, IL · 2024
General Operating Support
$125,000
Akiba Schechter - Jewish Day School · Chicago, IL · 2023
Tuition assistance
$125,000
Arie Crown Hebrew Day School · Skokie, IL · 2023
Tuition assistance
$125,000
Hillel Torah North Suburban Day School · Skokie, IL · 2023
Tuition assistance
$125,000
Ida Crown Jewish Academy · Skokie, IL · 2023
Tuition assistance
$125,000
Akiba Schechter - Jewish Day School · Chicago, IL · 2022
General operating support
$125,000
Arie Crown Hebrew Day School · Skokie, IL · 2022
General operating support
$125,000
Ida Crown Jewish Academy · Skokie, IL · 2022
General operating support
$125,000
Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago · Skokie, IL · 2021
Reach
$112,500
Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School · Chicago, IL · 2021
Tuition Assistance
$108,750
Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School · Chicago, IL · 2022
General operating support
$100,000
Aspen Jewish Center · Aspen, CO · 2024
Aspen Jewish Ideas Festival
$100,000
Community Mikvah of the Conservative Movement · Wilmette, IL · 2024
Feasibility Study
$100,000
Jewish Funders Network · New York, NY · 2024
Northern Funds Forum
$100,000
Jewish National Fund · Northbrook, IL · 2024
Alexander Muss High School in Israel
$100,000
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee · New York, NY · 2023
Interagency task force
$100,000
Jewish National Fund · Northbrook, IL · 2023
Alexander muss high school in israel
$100,000
Pef Israel Endowment Funds · New York, NY · 2023
Mind israel
$93,750
Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School · Chicago, IL · 2023
Tuition assistance
$75,000
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee · New York, NY · 2022
Interagency Task Force
$75,000
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee · New York, NY · 2021
Interagency Task Force
$63,600
National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (Clal) · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$50,000
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee · New York, NY · 2024
Matei - Digital Arab Education Initiative
$25,000
B'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization · Washington, DC · 2024
General Operating Support
$25,000
Israel Policy Forum · New York, NY · 2024
General Operating Support
$25,000
B'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization · Washington, DC · 2023
General operating support
$25,000
Israel Policy Forum · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.