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Allene Reuss Memorial Trust at a glance

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Allene Reuss Memorial Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$959k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$2.0MHuman Services$1.2MArts & Culture$708kEducation$525kAnimals$250kReligion$100kCommunity Improvement$90kPhilanthropy$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $355k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $604k
$40,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VISIONS$100,000
KINGS BAY YM-YWHA$100,000
FMDG MUSIC SCHOOL$75,000
VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT$65,000
ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THEBLIND$64,000
BENETECH$50,000
NORTHSIDE CENTER$50,000
FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND$50,000
OPTOMETRIC CENTER OF NEW YORK$50,000
THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING$45,000
EVERSIGHT$40,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$40,000
LIGHTHOUSE GUILD INTERNATIONAL INC$40,000
GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND$30,000
CANCER CARE INC$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $64k → 6%BENETECH: $50k → 8%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $30k → 9%VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $65k → 13%GOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES: $50k → 14%NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL: $40k → 17%VISIONS: $100k → 20%ENVISION: $40k → 16%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $60k → 11%ASSOCIATION FOR THE MULTIPLE IMPAIRED: $25k → 11%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THEBLIND: $64k → 6%BENETECH: $25k → 8%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $30k → 9%VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $65k → 13%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $50k → 16%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $40k → 17%VISIONS: $100k → 20%ENVISION: $30k → 16%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THEBLIND: $64k → 6%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $30k → 9%VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $60k → 13%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $50k → 16%VISIONS: $100k → 20%ENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 11%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THEBLIND: $64k → 6%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $30k → 9%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 11%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $50k → 6%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $30k → 9%VISIONS: $75k → 20%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $45k → 20%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $50k → 6%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $30k → 9%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $40k → 20%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $50k → 9%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $40k → 20%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $40k → 20%ENRICHMENT AUDIO RESOURCE SERVICES: $30k → 17%ENRICHMENT AUDIO RESOURCE SERVICES: $15k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
KY
KS
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 26 repeat orgs$905k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
18

Total granted

$4.2M
$880k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+25%

Still filing today

81%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • IG
    ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $356k · revenue +90%
  • NY
    NEW YORK FOUNDLING
    6× · 2020–2025 · $245k · revenue +52%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    6× · 2020–2025 · $220k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • FF
    FUND FOR THE BLIND OF VISIONS
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • V
    VISIONS
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Manhattan Eye & Ear Ophthalmology Alumni Foundation Inc
Health
2
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Envision Industries Inc

To improve the quality of life and provide inspiration and opportunity for people who are blind and visually impaired through employment, outreach, rehabilitation, education and research.

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4
Jgb Rehabilitation Corporation

To provide exceptional services that inspire people who are visually impaired to attain their goals.

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5
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
6
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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7
New York Eye & Ear Infirmary

To provide patient care at the highest quality, most technologically advanced and consistent multidisciplinary care in an environment where the safety, dignity and comfort of each patient are paramount. in delivering patient care, new york…

Health
8
Envision Vision Rehabilitation Center Inc

To improve the quality of life and provide inspiration and opportunity for people who are blind and visually impaired through employment, outreach, rehabilitation, education, and research.to improve the quality of life and provide…

Health
9
The Boston Foundation for Sight Inc

Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.

Human Services
10
Visability

Provide innovative training and tools for people who are blind or visually impaired to help them achieve their goals and dreams

Human Services
11
In-Sight

In-sight inspires confidence and builds skills that help people who are visually impaired and blind to thrive and succeed.

Human Services
12
Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind Inc

To provide employment and education for the adult legally blind and help them to live independently.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse Guild International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
24/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $375,000 · Human ServicesVISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY…ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $356,000 · Human ServicesISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLINDNEW YORK FOUNDLING: $245,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK FOUNDLINGVIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $190,000 · Human ServicesVIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENTGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $180,000 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INCFreedom Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $150,000 · Human ServicesFreedom Guide Dogs for the Blind IncFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesBENEFICENT TECHNOLOGY INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesENVISION INC: $70,000 · Human Services+5 more: $204,574 · Human Services+5 moreLAVELLE SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $350,000 · OtherLAVELLE SCHOOL FOR THE BLINDFMDG MUSIC SCHOOL: $225,000 · OtherFMDG MUSIC SCHOOLKINGS BAY YM-YWHA INC: $200,000 · OtherKINGS BAY YM-YWHA INCNORTHSIDE CENTER: $185,000 · OtherNORTHSIDE CENTEREversight: $180,000 · OtherEversightFUND FOR THE BLIND OF VISIONS: $100,000 · OtherFUND FOR THE BLIND OF VISIONSVISIONS: $100,000 · OtherVISIONSIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT - VIA: $60,000 · OtherOLMSTEAD CENTER FOR SIGHT: $60,000 · Other+5 more: $165,000 · Other+5 moreHELP ME SEE INC: $125,000 · HealthHELP ME SE…Cancer Care Inc: $120,000 · HealthCancer Car…NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · HealthNEW YORK S…HASC DIAGNOSTIC & TREATMENT CENTER INC: $40,000 · HealthHASC DIAGN…BROWNSVILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $40,000 · HealthBROWNSVILL…UNION COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $40,000 · HealthUNION COMM…The Eye Cancer Foundation Inc: $25,000 · HealthTHE FLOATING HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 · HealthMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $220,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLI…AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN …Museum of Modern Art: $67,500 · Arts & CultureMuseum of…THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOK…SUNY COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY FOUNDATION: $300,000 · EducationSUNY COLL…THE FILOMEN M DAGOSTINO GREENBERG MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $100,000 · EducationTHE FILOM…The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $40,000 · EducationThe New Y…LIGHTHOUSE GUILD INTERNATIONAL INC: $70,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $50,000 · Philanthropy
Human Services$1,925,574Other$1,725,000Health$495,000Arts & Culture$452,500Education$440,000Philanthropy$120,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $375,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $356,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetSUNY COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDLING: $245,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $220,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKINGS BAY YM-YWHA INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $190,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $180,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEversight: $180,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFreedom Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetHELP ME SEE INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCancer Care Inc: $120,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FILOMEN M DAGOSTINO GREENBERG MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBENEFICENT TECHNOLOGY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE GUILD INTERNATIONAL INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENVISION INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $67,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENRICHMENT AUDIO RESOURCE SERVICES INC: $45,000 over 2y, 82% of budgetHASC DIAGNOSTIC & TREATMENT CENTER INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWNSVILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNION COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FLOATING HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE MULTIPLE IMPAIRED BLIND INC: $24,574 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Lavelle Fund for the …Reader's Digest Partn…The Hyde and Watson F…Mother Cabrini Health…Sarah Decoizart Perpe…Robin Hood FoundationWilliam G and Helen C…Consumer Technology A…The Gibney Family Fou…The New York Communit…United Way WorldwideJewish Communal Fund
Lavelle Fund for the Blind IncNY24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc · Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Sarah Decoizart Perpetual Charitable Tr · Robin Hood Foundation · William G and Helen C Hoffman Fdn · Consumer Technology Association Foundation · The Gibney Family Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · United Way Worldwide · Jewish Communal Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Allene Reuss Memorial Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Allene Reuss Memorial Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Allene Reuss Memorial Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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