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Martin & Rhea E Reiss Fam Char

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.

$4k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of MARTIN & RHEA E REISS FAM CHAR’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$65k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DRS MAGER FUND$2,000
TEMPLE SHALOM$1,890
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LOWN CARDIOVASCULAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%NEW ART CENTER OF NEWTON: $1k → 8%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $20k → 11%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $3k → 16%KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1k → 11%FORK UNION MILITARY ACADEMY: $1k → 8%LOWN CARDIOVASCULAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $20k → 11%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $3k → 16%KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1k → 11%LOWN CARDIOVASCULAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%TEMPLE SHALOM OF NEWTON: $3k → 8%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $20k → 11%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $3k → 16%LOWN CARDIOVASCULAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%TEMPLE SHALOM OF NEWTON: $3k → 8%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $15k → 11%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $3k → 16%TEMPLE SHALOM OF NEWTON: $3k → 8%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $5k → 11%ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM: $2k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $5k → 8%GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK: $1k → 16%TEMPLE SHALOM OF NEWTON: $3k → 8%GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK: $1k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $5k → 8%GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK: $1k → 16%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $2k → 7%TEMPLE SHALOM OF NEWTON: $3k → 8%COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES: $1k → 16%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $2k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $5k → 8%DRS MAYER-KANTOFF FUND FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%TEMPLE SHALOM OF NEWTON: $3k → 8%DRS MAYER-KANTOFF FUND FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%MIT: $1k → 8%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $2k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $5k → 8%DRS MAYER-KANTOFF FUND FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%TEMPLE SHALOM: $2k → 8%DRS MAGER FUND: $2k → 7%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $2k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $5k → 8%DRS MAYER-KANTOFF FUND FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%TEMPLE SHALOM OF NEWTON: $2k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $5k → 8%TEMPLE SHALOM OF NEWTON: $2k → 8%BOSTON CHAPTER OF HADASSAH: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$202k · 14 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
20

Total granted

$202k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+26%

Still filing today

57%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

  • WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $80k · revenue +63%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +20%
  • MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $12k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • BC
    BOSTON CHAPTER OF HADASSAH
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +117%
  • FU
    FORK UNION MILITARY ACADEMY
    one grant, 2020 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

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

2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
5
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
6
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
7
Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network Inc

The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).

Health
8
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
9
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc

The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
11
New York Blood Center Inc

As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.

Health
12
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation Inc

Massachusetts taxpayers foundation provides public & private sector decision makers with accurate, timely, unbiased research & constructive solutions that drive public policy in order to strengthen the state's finances & position the…

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 60 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr19%10%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr14%55%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%1%20–35yr14%12%35–55yr14%87%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,335

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.

04the grantee network

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $80,000 · OtherWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $30,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INCTEMPLE SHALOM OF NEWTON — $21,624 · OtherTEMPLE SHALOM OF NEWTONLOWN CARDIOVASCULAR FOUNDATION — $20,100 · OtherLOWN CARDIOVASCULAR FOUNDATIONDRS MAYER-KANTOFF FUND FOUNDATION — $8,000 · Other+17 more — $21,990 · Other+17 moreMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $12,000 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ART CENTER IN NEWTON INC (FKA) NEWTON ARTS CENTER INC — $1,000 · Arts & CulturePINE STREET INN INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesRESTORE NYC INC — $500 · Human ServicesDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $8,500 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $525 · HealthEVERY MOTHER COUNTS — $500 · Health+2 more — $200 · HealthCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $1,000 · PhilanthropyBUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $500 · AnimalsTHE MARYLAND SPCA INC — $500 · AnimalsNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $500 · Environment
Other$181,714Arts & Culture$17,000Human Services$10,500Health$9,725Philanthropy$1,000Animals$1,000Environment$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ART CENTER IN NEWTON INC (FKA) NEWTON ARTS CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST FRANCIS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $525 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESTORE NYC INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartnerships For Change — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND SPCA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA10.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Martin & Rhea E Reiss Fam Char 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 8%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc22% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc11% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc1% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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