· Private foundation
Emanuel & Riane Gruss Charitable Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $139k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $466k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIVUNIM | $300,000 |
| ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| THE SHEFA SCHOOL | $136,000 |
| NATIONAL YIDDISH THEATER FOLKSBIENE | $80,000 |
| B'NAI JESHURUN | $50,000 |
| CAMP RAMAH IN THE BERKSHIRES INC | $33,000 |
| AMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE | $25,000 |
| MANHATTAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE | $20,000 |
| ABRAHAM INITIATIVES | $18,000 |
| ELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS IN ISRAEL | $18,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION | $15,000 |
| ISEF FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER THEATRE | $7,750 |
| JEWISH MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $5,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $502) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC2× · 2017–2018 · $2.0M · revenue +89%
- AJABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $703k · revenue +66%
- SSSHEFA SCHOOL6× · 2018–2025 · $370k · revenue +269%
Funded once
- YTYIDDISH THEATRE FOLKSBIENEone grant, 2024 · $80k
- NJNATIONAL JEWISH THEATERone grant, 2017 · $25k
THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life and the most unlike its peers is American Heroes Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 119 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds KIVUNIM ↗
- Who funds ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds SHEFA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds AM YISRAEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN THE BERKSHIRES INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds ST PETER'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC ↗
- Who funds GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTER HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Alan B Slifka Foundation · Fjc · Silvera Foundation · George & Adele Klein Family Foundation · The Gottesman Fund · Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Foundation Inc · Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation Inc · Farrell Family Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Emanuel & Riane Gruss Charitable Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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