· Private foundation
Jacob L Reiss Foundation
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JULIAN REISS FOUNDATION | $38,000 |
| MERCY CARE FOR THE ADIRONDACKS INC | $36,000 |
| ST JOSEPHS REHABILITATION CENTER INC | $30,000 |
| CORMARIA RETREAT CENTER IN | $26,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $26,000 |
| CAPE COD HEALTHCARE INC | $20,000 |
| BLINKNOW FDN A NJ NONPROFITCORPORATION | $20,000 |
| CALIFORNIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ALUMNI | $20,000 |
| RUMSON ENDOWMENT FUND INC | $17,760 |
| COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC | $15,740 |
| CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY | $10,000 |
| FAMILIES FIRST IN ESSEX COUNTY INC | $10,000 |
| MARYKNOLL SISTERS OF ST DOMINIC INC | $8,000 |
| MARYKNOLL FATHERS AND BROTHERS | $8,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOC OF HARTFORD | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 17% 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.
35 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 14 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k 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
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $201k · revenue +36%- MCMERCY CARE FOR THE ADIRONDACKS INC5× · 2020–2025 · $183k · revenue +36%
- MMMONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $111k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- MCMERCY CARE FOR THE ADIRONDACKSone grant, 2024 · $37k
- SOSISTER OF THE SACRED HEART OF MARYone grant, 2022 · $25k
- SAST AGNES CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
Alternatives, inc was established to provide comprehensive services to individuals/families with special needs to enable them to reach their highest level of independence and integration into the community.
Argus community's mission is to provide innovative programs which help severely disadvantaged teens and adults to free themselves from poverty and drug abuse and build new lives based on responsibility, work, and hope. argus provides a…
Mercy housing and shelter corporation provides housing assistance and supportive services to persons who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. mercy works to empower its clients to become independent, so they may live and work with…
Gosnold, inc. was established for the rehabilitation of substance abusers and offers addiction and mental health treatment on an in-patient and out-patient basis.
Lifebridge's mission is to offer men and women the opportunities they need to end their homelessness. we believe that the way to solve this crisis, one person at a time, is to provide housing with supportive services, to encourage personal…
The mission of the reformed church ministries to the aging, the regional synod of the mid-atlantics ("rch"), is "committed to the compassionate care of our elders in a spiritual environment". our commission and priority is to serve the…
The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…
Pibly's mission embraces the belief that the needs of its consumers can be met and their goals can be achieved. pibly strives to expand opportunities for people living with mental health challenges by delivering person centered services…
Mission: to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve. values: humanity, innovation, teamwork, diversity and equity - our values define our philosophy of care. they shape our actions and motivate and…
The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…
Fairview recovery services, inc. is committed to delivering a continuum of services to individuals with the disease of alcoholism, chemical dependency and co-occurring conditions. these services are designed to provide individuals the…
Rescue Mission of Trenton, New Jersey serves the truly needy men and women who have no place to turn for shelter, food, and clothing. The Organization provides a safe, clean, and warm refuge for the homeless, the hungry, the transient, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families First in Essex County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Julian Reiss Foundation Inc. 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 55 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 65 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 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MERCY CARE FOR THE ADIRONDACKS INC ↗
- Who funds The Julian Reiss Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT ↗
- Who funds The Rumson Country Day School ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds RUMSON ENDOWMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST IN ESSEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OCEANIC PUBLIC LIBRARY TRUST ↗
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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Jacob L Reiss 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% 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.