Carylon Julius and Marcie Hemmelstein Foundation
ActiveMutual & Membership Benefit
About Carylon Julius and Marcie Hemmelstein Foundation
The foundation made a single, substantial grant to Mishkan Chicago, indicating a focused commitment to religious life — specifically supporting a contemporary Jewish congregation in Chicago. Their giving appears targeted toward community-building within the Jewish faith sector rather than broad philanthropic diversification.
Focus Areas
Progressive Jewish congregational support in ChicagoReligious community-building and programmingStart-up/innovative synagogue operations and capacity
Who They Fund
progressive Jewish congregations (Chicago)urban Jewish faith communitycongregational leaders and members of start-up synagogues
Giving Approach
Highly concentrated: one large grant to a single religious organization, suggesting either a flagship beneficiary or a one-off targeted gift rather than dispersed, multi-year funding across many organizations.
Funding Style
highly concentrated / flagship grant
About Carylon Julius and Marcie Hemmelstein Foundation
A $105,000 grant to Mishkan Chicago stands out in the Carylon Julius and Marcie Hemmelstein Foundation’s recent record and points to a focused commitment to progressive Jewish congregational life. The foundation’s giving is concentrated enough that a single congregation appears multiple times across recent years, including additional grants of $100,000 and $50,000 to Mishkan Chicago. That pattern suggests sustained support for synagogue operations and community-building, rather than a broad, diversified program across many sectors. The foundation also appears in a wider circle of Jewish and civic institutions. Recent grants include support for the American Jewish Committee in Chicago and the Jewish Federation of Ann Arbor, alongside grants to organizations tied to remembrance, health, and social services. These gifts indicate that the foundation’s portfolio extends beyond one congregation while remaining anchored in Jewish communal life and nearby Chicago institutions. Across the recent grants list, the foundation’s giving is characterized by repeated support to a small set of organizations, with multiple entries at the same amounts in both 2023 and 2025. That repetition makes the foundation look more like a relationship-based funder than a transaction-heavy one-off grantmaker.
What Carylon Julius and Marcie Hemmelstein Foundation Funds
In progressive Jewish congregational support, the foundation gave $105,000 to Mishkan Chicago for religious work, with additional support shown in other recent grants. The repeated naming of the same congregation across years points to sustained congregational backing. Jewish communal institutions also receive attention. The foundation gave $100,000 to the Jewish Federation of Ann Arbor and $50,000 to the American Jewish Committee in Chicago, both of which place Jewish identity and community coordination within the foundation’s giving pattern. Its portfolio also reaches into education and institutional memory. Rashi School in Dedham received $50,000, while the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC received $50,000 grants, showing that the foundation supports both educational settings and Jewish historical commemoration. Civic and health-related causes appear as well. The foundation gave $60,000 to the Chicago Abortion Fund and $100,000 to Rush University Medical Center, indicating a willingness to fund organizations outside the Jewish sector when they fit its broader philanthropic priorities.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$1.3M
Total Assets
$25.5M
Total Revenue
$2.4M
Total Expenses
$1.5M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $5K and $20K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$5K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$20K
Geographic Reach
National10 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
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