· Private foundation
J Christopher and Anne N Reyes Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
52% of J Christopher and Anne N Reyes Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to University Of Notre Dame Du Lac, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 24 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year J Christopher and Anne N Reyes Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 30 organizations, $11M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $306k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+9 grants · $8.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $2,717,716 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $2,112,838 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $941,428 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY | $600,000 |
| LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO | $523,979 |
| ENTITLEMENTS HOW | $500,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $311,556 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARITIES | $250,000 |
| CRISTO REY ST MARTIN COLLEGE PREP | $250,000 |
| LURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $247,526 |
| NATIONAL MUSUEM OF WOMEN IN ARTS | $200,904 |
| NORTON MUSEUM OF ART | $200,000 |
| REDF | $200,000 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK | $200,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +45% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC6× · 2019–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +105%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY6× · 2019–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +369%
- EHENTITLEMENTS HOW INC4× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +238%
Funded once
- MHMARTIN HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $525k
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC MARTIN HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $514k
- TMThe Martha and John M Rivers Performance Hall Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue ×12
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.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
See Disclosure Above.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethel Walker School Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. 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 49 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 98 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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ENTITLEMENTS HOW INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds REDF ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds The Martha and John M Rivers Performance Hall Foundation ↗
- Who funds ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MARGARET HACKETT FAMILY CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds Accelerate Institute ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Wonderful Life Foundation · Tully Family Foundation · Carol Bernick Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Canning Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Lavin Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
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 J Christopher and Anne N Reyes Foundation 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.
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% 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.