New York · Private foundation
Mahir & Helene Reiss 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.
- $564k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 61
- Grants FY2024
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,600
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $53,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 52
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $139k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Mahir & Helene Reiss Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 60 | $563k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $481k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $175k | 61% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $85k | 81% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $124k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congregation Ahavas Tzdokah Vchesed Inc | $147,810 | 4 | n/a |
| Torah Community Fund Inc | $124,060 | 5 | 2% |
| Cong Ohel Torah | $95,106 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of Tiferet Tzion Inc | $84,800 | 4 | 3% |
| Tova Uvrucha Inc | $36,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Beis Medrash Meshivas Nofesh | $30,360 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Yeshiva Dmir Inc | $28,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kehilla New Central Inc | $25,100 | 3 | n/a |
| Helping Hand Foundation Inc | $23,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Nefesh Chaya Inc | $22,168 | 5 | 67% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congregation Ahavas Tzdokah Vchesed Inc | $147,810 | 4 | n/a |
| Torah Community Fund Inc | $124,060 | 5 | 2% |
| Cong Ohel Torah | $95,106 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of Tiferet Tzion Inc | $84,800 | 4 | 3% |
| Tova Uvrucha Inc | $36,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Beis Medrash Meshivas Nofesh | $30,360 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Yeshiva Dmir Inc | $28,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kehilla New Central Inc | $25,100 | 3 | n/a |
| Helping Hand Foundation Inc | $23,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Nefesh Chaya Inc | $22,168 | 5 | 67% |
| Yeshivas Novominsk | $18,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nechamas Zion Maryland | $16,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Machon Shiurei Rav Rafael Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Darche Noam | $11,720 | 2 | 5% |
| Vaad Harabbanim L'Inyanei Tzeduka Inc | $11,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Gemach Zichron Moshe Inc | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Friends of Bais Medrash Taharos | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Central Fund of Israel | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Imrei Yosef | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Esh Dat Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 8% |
| American Friends of Meshi Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Ramat Schlomo | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Yeshivas D'Var Torah Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Yeshivas Emek Hatorah Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Eshel Publications Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Temech Inc Co Avi Schron | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mifalot Simcha | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Yad Eliezer | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ner Israel Rabbinical College Inc | $3,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Keren Torah Vchesed | $3,600 | 1 | 8% |
| Knn Relief Fund | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yad Yisroel | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bikur Cholim of Manhattan Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Shor Yoshuv | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Aniyei Yerushalayim Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rekonect | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Catskills Hatzalah Inc | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of Aderes Hatorah Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kollel Torah Inc | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Refuah Helpline Incdba Refuah Resources | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Torat Hanachal | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Tzedakah Vchesed Inc | $1,370 | 1 | 0% |
| Agudas Tov V'Chesed Inc | $1,018 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Pnei Shmuel Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kollel International Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Laniado Development Fund Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Beth Joseph | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Avnei Kodesh Inc | $950 | 1 | 2% |
| American Friends of Kupat Ha'Ir | $908 | 1 | 0% |
| Chizuk Hatorah Inc | $720 | 1 | n/a |
| Rabbinical Seminary of America | $540 | 3 | n/a |
| Khal Bnei Avrohom Yaakov Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Keter Torah Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Shirat David Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Torah Communication Center | $480 | 4 | 0% |
| Congregation Zichron Refoel Inc | $360 | 1 | n/a |
| Izman Torah Solutions | $320 | 2 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Tiferes Elimelech | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Colel Chabad | $180 | 1 | n/a |
| Yad Menachem Letinok Inc | $180 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel | $180 | 1 | 0% |
| Kolel Chibas Jerusalem | $118 | 2 | 0% |
| Camp Hasc Inc | $100 | 2 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Karlin Stolin | $97 | 2 | n/a |
| Vaad L-Chizuk Kiyum Hamitzvoth | $36 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 69 recipients with no EIN on record ($582k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mahir & Helene Reiss Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Jmg Foundation · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Allen I Gross Charitable Foundation · Bcg Charitable Foundation · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Mahir & Helene Reiss Foundation
- How much does Mahir & Helene Reiss Foundation give?
- Mahir & Helene Reiss Foundation reported 61 grants totaling $563,561 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 52 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Mahir & Helene Reiss Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (68%), International (10%), Human Services (3%).
- Who are Mahir & Helene Reiss Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Congregation Ahavas Tzdokah Vchesed Inc ($148k), Torah Community Fund Inc ($124k), Cong Ohel Torah ($95k).
- Does Mahir & Helene Reiss Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mahir & Helene Reiss Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mahir & Helene Reiss Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Mahir & Helene Reiss Foundation based?
- Mahir & Helene Reiss Foundation is based in NY.
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