· Private foundation
The Reggi Marder 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 $10k9 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF THE ARAVA INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NASSAU COUNTY | $5,000 |
| MIDWEST ACCESS PROJECT | $2,500 |
| MOG PROJECT | $1,000 |
| AVODAH | $500 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE | $500 |
| CURT'S CAFE | $500 |
| EVANSTON SCHOLARS | $500 |
| JEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST CONGREGATION | $300 |
| CAMPERSHIPS FOR NEBAGAMON | $100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of your 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.
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 13% of The Reggi Marder 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD8× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +28%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIDUM INC5× · 2019–2023 · $36k · revenue +57%
- RTRepro TLC9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +727%
Funded once
- HHADASSAHone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
To provide an education based program in israel for college age jewish young adults that will instill students with a sense of purpose, commitment & pride about
Founded in 1989 and named for the common ancestor of jews and arabs, the abraham initiatives is a not-for-profit, non-partisan, organization dedicated to advancing coexistence and equality among israel's jewish and arab citizens, by…
T'ruah engages in three strategies in our work: we organize rabbis, cantors and their communities to make an impact through specific human rights campaigns; we train rabbinical and cantorial students and rabbis and cantors to be powerful…
Tzedek America is an program based in Los Angeles, CA. The program is designed to encourage you to embrace your passions, explore what drives you and find meaning in your life through national and international travel, social justice…
Research and Educational Programs including but not Jewish history, genealogy, genetics, migrations, and related fields.
to address the deep social, economic, ethical, religious and ideological rifts that exist within Israeli society.
The mission of the ari fuld project is to continue the activities, projects and legacy of ari fuld. to support the jewish people, the land and torah of israel. to promulgate and implement the teachings of ari fuld.
Support of not for profit organizations to assist them to attain their religious, educational, and charitable goals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Avodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc and the most unlike its peers is Camp Nebagamon Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 20 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 FRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Nassau County Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIDUM INC ↗
- Who funds Repro TLC ↗
- Who funds YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore ↗
- Who funds WILLOW HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CURT'S CAFE ↗
- Who funds AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds American Supporters of Yedid Inc ↗
- Who funds INFINITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP NEBAGAMON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HONOR THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds The MOG Project 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: Evanston Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 The Reggi Marder 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.