· Private foundation
Ream Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k5 grants · $106k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago | $800,000 |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $300,000 |
| University of Illinois | $249,975 |
| Utah State University | $200,000 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $199,982 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | $199,534 |
| Concordia University-Université Concordia | $197,850 |
| King's College London | $160,339 |
| Milken Institute | $125,000 |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $100,000 |
| Milken Institute | $100,000 |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $100,000 |
| University of Warsaw | $99,995 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $98,495 |
| Milken Institute | $87,358 |
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 +32% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- TMTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE3× · 2021–2023 · $869k · revenue +23%
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI2× · 2021–2023 · $600k · revenue +22%- BCBaylor College of Medicine3× · 2021–2023 · $409k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Sussexone grant, 2021 · $400k
- UOUniversity of South Carolinaone grant, 2022 · $200k
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +26%
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
See Disclosure Above.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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, research, medical services and other public services.
Education and Research
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University and the most unlike its peers is SoQuiet. 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 67 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 35 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.
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- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Marwen Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
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