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John C & Bernice a Rieg Charitable

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.

$201k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$57k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MScience & Tech$150
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
$6,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT$56,500
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$19,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND$17,500
EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY$13,075
BENTLEY UNIVERSITY$13,000
BOSTON COLLEGE$12,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN$10,500
HAMILTON COLLEGE$10,000
HOWARD UNIVERSITY$9,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$8,000
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY$6,000
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD$4,500
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE$3,500
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$3,000
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY$2,500
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOSTON COLLEGE: $12k → 7%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $8k → 11%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $5k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $13k → 16%GENEVA COLLEGE: $8k → 10%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $9k → 11%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $8k → 11%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $8k → 14%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $10k → 16%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: $10k → 28%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $9k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $66k → 11%EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN: $11k → 12%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $6k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $18k → 11%BOSTON COLLEGE: $10k → 7%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $11k → 16%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $7k → 11%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $6k → 14%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: $6k → 28%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $7k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $59k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN: $7k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $6k → 11%BOSTON COLLEGE: $10k → 7%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $9k → 16%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $6k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $57k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN: $6k → 12%BOSTON COLLEGE: $7k → 7%BENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $13k → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $55k → 11%BOSTON COLLEGE: $5k → 7%BENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $8k → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $7k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $47k → 11%BENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $7k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $43k → 11%BENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $37k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $29k → 11%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $19k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $27k → 11%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $17k → 16%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $9k → 16%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

NH
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
RI
CA
MD
AR
NC
SC
DC
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 35 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
10

Total granted

$1.0M
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+19%

Still filing today

74%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $60k · revenue +87%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +45%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • Bucknell University
    one grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue 0%
  • Williams Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +33%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.

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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
3
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
7
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
8
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
9
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fordham University; the most unlike its peers is Harding University Inc. 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

37 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. 37 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
30/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $419,283 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUTTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $53,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYEASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY: $32,575 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $23,000 · Other+14 more: $99,500 · Other+14 moreNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $44,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $36,000 · EducationBENTLEY UNIVERSITYUniversity of New Haven: $33,500 · EducationUniversity of New HavenTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $28,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $28,000 · EducationRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteRochester Institute of Technology: $22,000 · EducationFordham University: $21,500 · EducationNew York University: $18,000 · EducationGENEVA COLLEGE: $18,000 · EducationTrustees of Hamilton College: $18,000 · EducationSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $16,000 · EducationFairfield University: $16,000 · Education+20 more: $99,274 · Education+20 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · Community Improvement
Other$627,358Education$458,274Community Improvement$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $53,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $44,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $36,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Haven: $33,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $28,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $28,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $21,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGENEVA COLLEGE: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $9,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH: $7,692 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $5,375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREED INSTITUTE: $5,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY UNIVERSITY: $4,030 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHarding University Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAGNER COLLEGE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $1,277 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of New Haven ↗
  • Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds GENEVA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Fairfield University ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Bucknell University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds REED INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MERCY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ADELPHI UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Harding University Inc ↗

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.

Verizon FoundationGe FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Verizon FoundationNJ14.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · Ge Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 John C & Bernice a Rieg Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John C & Bernice a Rieg Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • University of New Haven: 2% of income from government
  • University of Saint Joseph: 2% of income from government
  • Western New England University: 1% of income from government
  • University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Springfield College: 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
  • Reed Institute: 1% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 1% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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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How do I get to John C & Bernice a Rieg Charitable?

Find your warmest path to John C & Bernice a Rieg Charitable 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 52 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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