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The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $255k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAWKEN SCHOOL | $80,000 |
| ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL | $75,000 |
| CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF SOLON | $50,000 |
| THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| YALE LAW SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES | $20,000 |
| CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL | $20,000 |
| JEWISH NEWS SERVICE | $15,000 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MIDDLE EAST FORUM | $15,000 |
| THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY | $10,000 |
| THE LOUIS D BRANDEIS CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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, $290k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
31 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- HSHAWKEN SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $430k · revenue +76%
- TFTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +11%
- MLMERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $210k · revenue +224%
Funded once
- BFBLOSSOM FRIENDS OF THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRAone grant, 2017 · $20k
- BIBIRTHRITE ISRAEL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $12k
- SSSTUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAELgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +76%
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 israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…
To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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…
Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…
The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Israel On Campus Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cleveland Guardians Charities 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 48 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 HAWKEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NEWS SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
- Who funds MENORAH PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHAKER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY ↗
- Who funds MONTEFIORE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds College of American Pathologists Foundation ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds KOL ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST FORUM ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND GUARDIANS CHARITIES 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 Horowitz Ratner Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · James and Susan Ratner Family Foundation · Ronald and Deborah Ratner Family Foundation · Irving I Stone Foundation · Gail and Sheldon Goodman Family Foundation · Abr Family Foundation No 1 · Samuel H & Maria Miller Foundation · The Good Community Foundation · The Joseph and Florence Mandel Family- Penni M and Stephen J Weinberg Family Fund
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 The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust 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.
- Yale University — 12% 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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