How much does The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust give?

The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust reported 13 grants totaling $425,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Civil Rights (14%), Health (13%).

Who are The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hawken School ($510k), The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies ($450k), Israeli-American Council ($385k).

Does The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Horowitz Ratner Family Foundation, Jewish Federation of Cleveland, Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation.

The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust

The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust

Q: Where is The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust based?

The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust is based in OH.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$425k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.1MCivil Rights$462kHealth$450kHuman Services$371kArts & Culture$318kReligion$260kPhilanthropy$173kInternational$161kOther$0

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k7 grants · $90k
$50k–250k5 grants · $330k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL	$100,000
HAWKEN SCHOOL	$80,000
THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY	$50,000
CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF SOLON	$50,000
YALE LAW SCHOOL	$50,000
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$15,000
PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION	$15,000
JEWISH NEWS SERVICE	$15,000
CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER	$15,000
MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE	$10,000
SOLON COMMUNITY LIVING	$10,000
THE LOUIS D BRANDEIS CENTER INC	$10,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $390k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.5M · 32 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.5M

$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+76%

Still filing today

75%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

HS
HAWKEN SCHOOL
9× · 2017–2025 · $510k · revenue +76%
TF
THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES
9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +47%
ML
MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
6× · 2019–2024 · $210k · revenue +224%

Funded once

FF
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc
one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
BF
BLOSSOM FRIENDS OF THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
one grant, 2017 · $20k
ME
MIDDLE EAST FORUM
one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%

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.

04Its field

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 Israel Institute Inc

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.

International

Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

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…

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University of Judaism Foundation

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The Shalem Foundation

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.

Crime & Legal

Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc

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…

Religion

Moskowitz Prize for Zionism Inc

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Us Middle East Project Inc

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…

International

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

Weizmann Institute of Science

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…

Science & Tech

Friends of Institute for Zionist

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…

International

Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida

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Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Israel On Campus Coalition Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 50 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/38

Grantees still filing

26/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,589,500Education$1,230,000Human Services$390,400Arts & Culture$295,000International$161,000Health$85,000Philanthropy$80,000

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.

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.

The Horowitz Ratner Family FoundationOH24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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