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Mahir & Helene Reiss Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0177% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$975kInternational$150kHuman Services$45kEducation$14kHealth$7kEmployment$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kPhilanthropy$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k42 grants · $116k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $395k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$3,600
Median grant
5
States reached
$139k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONG AHAVAS TZEDOKAH VCHESED$53,100
TORAH COMMUNITY FUND$42,100
BAIS MEDRASH ZICHRON TUVIA$36,000
CONG OHEL TORAH$32,906
BAIS ULFANA$30,360
FRIENDS OF TIFERETH ZION$30,000
Individual grant recipient$29,400
BELZ INSTITUTIONS OF ISRAEL$22,600
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR$22,000
YESHIVA RABBI CHAIM BERLIN$18,000
AFO KOLLEL SHAAREI SIMCHA$18,000
YESHIVA ATERET YISRAEL$18,000
Individual grant recipient$16,000
YESHURUN FOUNDATION$15,000
YESHIVA NOVOMINSK$15,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TEMECH: $5k → 17%YAD MENACHEM L'TINOK: $180 → 17%HELPING HAND FOUNDATION: $23k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $4k → 11%FRIENDS OF KETER TORAH: $500 → 20%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.
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 53 repeat orgs$308k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
59

Total granted

$1.1M
$173k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

36%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationHealthOther
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

  • TC
    TORAH COMMUNITY FUND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $124k · revenue +48%
  • FO
    Friends of Tiferet Tzion Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +35%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $28k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • TU
    TOVA UVRUCHA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $36k
  • HH
    HELPING HAND FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $23k · revenue -37%
  • NZ
    NECHAMAS ZION MARYLANDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue +32%
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.

1
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
Sherit Isroel
—
5
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
6
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
7
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
8
Ahavas Torah V'chesed
Philanthropy
9
Ohr Olam Corp

publish religious books

Religion
10
Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship
Religion
11
Zichron Moshe Elihu Tzedoka Fund
Philanthropy
12
Mifal Tzedaka Vchesed Chasdei Aharo N Inc

Provide financial assistance to torah and talmudic scholars, as well as to other needy individuals and other organizations that work to promote these purposes.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vaad Harabbanim L'inyanei Tzeduka Inc; the most unlike its peers is Keren Torah Vchesed. 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

43 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. 43 of the 138 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
23/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION AHAVAS TZDOKAH VCHESED INC: $147,810 · OtherCONGREGATION AHAVAS TZDOKAH VCHESED INCCONG OHEL TORAH: $95,106 · OtherCONG OHEL TORAHIndividual grant recipient: $64,440 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBELZ INSTITUTIONS OF ISRAEL: $53,820 · OtherBAIS MEDRASH ZICHRON TUVIA: $51,000 · OtherTOVA UVRUCHA INC: $36,000 · OtherAFO KOLLEL SHAAREI SIMCHA: $36,000 · OtherYESHIVA ATERET YISRAEL: $36,000 · OtherYESHURUN FOUNDATION: $35,400 · Other+90 more: $470,027 · Other+90 moreTORAH COMMUNITY FUND INC: $124,060 · InternationalTORAH COMMUNI…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $28,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIE…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAIS MEDRASH TAHAROS: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIE…Central Fund of Israel: $10,000 · InternationalCentral Fund …+3 more: $2,506 · InternationalFriends of Tiferet Tzion Inc: $84,800 · Education+2 more: $2,180 · EducationNEFESH CHAYA INC: $22,168 · PhilanthropyNECHAMAS ZION MARYLAND: $16,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MESHI INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropyYESHIVAS D'VAR TORAH INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropyMIFALOT SIMCHA: $4,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF ADERES HATORAH INC: $2,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,360 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DARCHE NOAM: $11,720 · ReligionVAAD HARABBANIM L'INYANEI TZEDUKA INC: $11,400 · ReligionESH DAT INC: $6,000 · ReligionEshel Publications Inc: $5,000 · ReligionANIYEI YERUSHALAYIM INC: $2,000 · ReligionREKONECT: $2,000 · ReligionKOLLEL TORAH INC: $1,800 · Religion+5 more: $2,308 · ReligionHELPING HAND FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesTEMECH INC CO AVI SCHRON: $5,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $4,000 · Human Services+2 more: $680 · Human ServicesGEMACH ZICHRON MOSHE INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementBIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN INC: $2,500 · HealthREFUAH HELPLINE INCDBA REFUAH RESOURCES: $1,800 · HealthLANIADO DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $1,000 · Health
Other$1,025,603International$174,566Education$86,980Philanthropy$57,528Religion$42,228Human Services$32,680Community Improvement$10,000Health$5,300

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTORAH COMMUNITY FUND INC: $124,060 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetFriends of Tiferet Tzion Inc: $84,800 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $28,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING HAND FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetNEFESH CHAYA INC: $22,168 over 5y, 67% of budgetNECHAMAS ZION MARYLAND: $16,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DARCHE NOAM: $11,720 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetVAAD HARABBANIM L'INYANEI TZEDUKA INC: $11,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGEMACH ZICHRON MOSHE INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAIS MEDRASH TAHAROS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $7,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetESH DAT INC: $6,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MESHI INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYESHIVAS D'VAR TORAH INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEshel Publications Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTEMECH INC CO AVI SCHRON: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN TORAH VCHESED: $3,600 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetYAD YISROEL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANIYEI YERUSHALAYIM INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREKONECT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATSKILLS HATZALAH INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ADERES HATORAH INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKOLLEL TORAH INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREFUAH HELPLINE INCDBA REFUAH RESOURCES: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTZEDAKAH VCHESED INC: $1,370 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAGUDAS TOV V'CHESED INC: $1,018 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLANIADO DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVNEI KODESH INC: $950 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR: $908 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KETER TORAH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHIRAT DAVID INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTORAH COMMUNICATION CENTER: $480 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIZMAN TORAH SOLUTIONS: $320 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYAD MENACHEM LETINOK INC: $180 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYeshiva Tiferes Yisroel: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKOLEL CHIBAS JERUSALEM: $118 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP HASC INC: $100 over 2y, 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 TORAH COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Tiferet Tzion Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEFESH CHAYA INC ↗
  • Who funds NECHAMAS ZION MARYLAND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DARCHE NOAM ↗
  • Who funds VAAD HARABBANIM L'INYANEI TZEDUKA INC ↗
  • Who funds GEMACH ZICHRON MOSHE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAIS MEDRASH TAHAROS ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗

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.

The Ojc FundJewish Communal FundJack Adjmi Family Fou…The Jmg FoundationMarbeh Shalom Foundat…Zichron Chaim Charity…The Jimmy and Berta K…Jewish Community Foun…Associated Jewish Cha…Allen I Gross Charita…Bcg Charitable Founda…The Zev and Susan Mun…
The Ojc FundNY47× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Mahir & Helene Reiss Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mahir & Helene Reiss Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    14get 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 · 0–10%
    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.

    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 138 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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