· Private foundation
Ries 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $18,418 |
| WORTHY BOOKS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AM SHALOM | $4,950 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| SELF HELP HOME | $2,150 |
| FRIENDS OF THE IDF | $2,143 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $2,000 |
| JEWISH WOMEN'S FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| HILLEL | $1,000 |
| REFRACTED THEATER COMPANY | $1,000 |
| ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
49 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 5 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO8× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +13%
Cornell University8× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +59%
Northwestern University6× · 2018–2024 · $14k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- JIJUF Israel Emergency Fundone grant, 2023 · $5k
- KSkellog school of managementone grant, 2017 · $3k
- JWJewish Woman Foundationone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
We are an intl. scientific & educational org. dedicated to advancing art, science & technology.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
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 adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
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.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 96 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds WORTHY BOOKS ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds THE SELFHELP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ries Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ries Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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