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Reader's Digest 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED THROUGH READING | $2,066,100 |
| NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC | $5,000 |
| HOLLYWOOD SCHOOLHOUSE INC | $2,000 |
| OFF ASSIGNMENT INC | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY - WAGON ROAD CAMP | $1,055 |
| BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR PEACE INC (BPEACE) | $1,025 |
| MEQUON-THIENSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,000 |
| TATTERED PAWS AND GOLDEN HEARTS RESCUE | $970 |
| PTA WISCONSIN CONGRESS | $500 |
| MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION | $450 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $280 |
| OSSINING FOOD PANTRY | $200 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $200 |
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 (FY24–24, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k 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
- UTUNITED THROUGH READING8× · 2017–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +178% · 52% of their budget
Feeding America3× · 2019–2023 · $10k · revenue +77%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- FCFriendship Circle of Connecticut Incone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +0%
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -33%- WIWesthab Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +65%
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.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Education and Research
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Birdies and Bogeys for Bob 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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 61 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 UNITED THROUGH READING ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Friendship Circle of Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds OFF ASSIGNMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Hollywood Schoolhouse Inc ↗
- Who funds Westhab Inc ↗
- Who funds Tattered Paws and Golden Hearts Rescue ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Birdies and Bogeys for Bob Inc ↗
- Who funds TURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE DOMES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Ossining Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Reader's Digest 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
- Greenbelt Land Trust — 31% 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.
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