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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.

$171k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$520kArts & Culture$376kHealth$237kEducation$222kCivil Rights$123kScience & Tech$103kInternational$63kHuman Services$54kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$200
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES$2,500
CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JEWISH EDUCATION$2,500
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$2,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$1,500
PING$1,000
MARGAUX SCHOOL AT TEMPLE JUDEA$1,000
GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION$1,000
02The need
03

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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND BLIND: $2k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $100 → 14%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND BLIND: $500 → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $50 → 14%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND BLIND: $250 → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $100 → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $180 → 15%MICHAEL ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER (MAR-JCC): $50k → 15%THE SOCIAL COG: $750 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
NY
PA
NJ
VA
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of The Ethel and Harry Reckson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 59%.

The Ethel and Harry Reckson Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 51 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
25

Total granted

$1.4M
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+6%

Still filing today

61%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEducationCivil RightsOther
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

  • MC
    MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2025 · $354k · revenue +35%
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +111%
  • AC
    AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $53k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • MR
    MICHAEL-ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +17%
  • Teach for America Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -3%
  • FS
    FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY - CENTER FOR AUTISM AND RELATED DISABILITIES (CARD
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
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.

1
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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2
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
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
New York University

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.

Education
5
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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.

Education
6
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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7
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
9
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

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.

Arts & Culture
10
United States Naval Institute

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.

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11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

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.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
42/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE JUDEA: $318,833 · OtherTEMPLE JUDEABAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $101,000 · OtherBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATIONUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM: $63,052 · OtherUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISMAJC GLOBAL JEWISH ADVOCACY: $59,500 · OtherAJC GLOBAL JEWISH ADVOCACYTEMPLE BETH SHALOM: $57,600 · OtherTEMPLE BETH SHALOMCENTRAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN RABBIS: $50,000 · OtherCENTRAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN RABBISAMERICAN COMMITTEE AND THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $50,000 · OtherAMERICAN COMMITTEE AND THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIEN…+43 more: $135,366 · Other+43 moreMIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM: $354,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM …MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC: $12,850 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $1,525 · Arts & CultureTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $155,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES …Teach for America Inc: $25,000 · EducationTeach for Ame…FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC: $16,016 · EducationFOUNDATION FO…+2 more: $5,150 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $119,850 · Civil Rights+2 more: $3,500 · Civil RightsBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $44,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $25,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $4,500 · Health+5 more: $1,950 · HealthAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $53,000 · InternationalISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $2,100 · International+5 more: $1,020 · InternationalMICHAEL-ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesLighthouse for the Visually Impaired and Blind Inc: $2,250 · Human Services+4 more: $1,180 · Human Services
Other$835,351Arts & Culture$368,375Education$201,166Civil Rights$123,350Health$86,450International$56,120Human Services$53,430

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM: $354,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $155,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $119,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $53,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMICHAEL-ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $44,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMANS CANCER ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI INC: $20,905 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC: $16,016 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC: $12,850 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JEWISH EDUCATION: $8,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $2,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCHECK HILLEL COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLighthouse for the Visually Impaired and Blind Inc: $2,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $2,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIAL COG INC: $750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $636 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC: $550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PROGRESS FOUNDATION INC: $530 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEARTBEATS FOR PATCHES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC: $360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $210 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MIAMI INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC: $179 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC: $128 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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 ↗

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.

Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL25.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ethel and Harry Reckson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ethel and Harry Reckson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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