· Private foundation
The Ethel and Harry Reckson Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE JUDEA | $57,960 |
| MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $32,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $25,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM | $10,350 |
| CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER | $5,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH SHALOM | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY INC | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JEWISH EDUCATION | $2,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES | $2,500 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,500 |
| PING | $1,000 |
| GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION | $1,000 |
| MARGAUX SCHOOL AT TEMPLE JUDEA | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of The Ethel and Harry Reckson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 59% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- MCMIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM8× · 2017–2025 · $354k · revenue +35%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE5× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +111%- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $53k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- MRMICHAEL-ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +17%
Teach for America Incone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -3%- FSFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY - CENTER FOR AUTISM AND RELATED DISABILITIES (CARDone grant, 2017 · $15k
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 the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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.
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
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 museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heartbeats for Patches Inc. 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 54 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% 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 17% 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.
55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 87 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 MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL-ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMANS CANCER ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JEWISH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SCHECK HILLEL COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Lighthouse for the Visually Impaired and Blind Inc ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION 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: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Westminster Barrington Foundation · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · Peacock Foundation Inc · The Kirk Foundation · The Shepard Broad Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Jewish Communal 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 Ethel and Harry Reckson Foundation 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.
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc — 4% of income from government
- Miami Music Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Historical Association of Southern Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.