· Private foundation
Robert S & Maria J Reisman Charitable Tr
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of ROBERT S & MARIA J REISMAN CHARITABLE TR’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $390k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $300,000 |
| GSD 3 FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL | $60,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER | $50,000 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| NEEDHAM YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $32,500 |
| SQUASHBUSTERS | $27,500 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FDN | $1,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,500 |
| DISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +19% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue ×15- DIDANA-FARBER INC5× · 2017–2021 · $255k · revenue +145%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $175k · revenue +30%
Funded once
INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGIONone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -2%- WWWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $1k
- PFPU'A FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +6%
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.
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Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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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.
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,…
Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…
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Phrma's mission is to conduct effective advocacy for public policies that encourage the discovery of important, new medicines for patients by biopharmaceutical research companies.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arthritis Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 11% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 74 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 NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SQUASHBUSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEEDHAM YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds Noahs Ark Preschool Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds DISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MEDICINE FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HEADACHE FOUNDATION ↗
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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Robert S & Maria J Reisman Charitable Tr 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.
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- New England Baptist Hospital — 1% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.