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The Reggi Marder Foundation at a glance

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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.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Environment$145kHealth$86kInternational$41kCivil Rights$33kHuman Services$21kEducation$16kCommunity Improvement$15kEmployment$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRIENDS OF THE ARAVA INSTITUTE: $20k → 16%HONOR THE EARTH: $3k → 10%AVODAH: $3k → 17%WILLOW HOUSE: $5k → 8%EVANSTON SCHOLARS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN SUPPORTERS OF YEDID: $4k → 7%FRIENDS OF THE ARAVA INSTITUTE: $20k → 16%HONOR THE EARTH: $2k → 10%AVODAH: $3k → 17%WILLOW HOUSE: $5k → 8%EVANSTON SCHOLARS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN SUPPORTERS OF YEDID: $4k → 7%FRIENDS OF THE ARAVA INSTITUTE: $20k → 16%AVODAH: $3k → 17%WILLOW HOUSE: $3k → 8%EVANSTON SCHOLARS: $2k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE ARAVA INSTITUTE: $20k → 16%AVODAH: $3k → 17%WILLOW HOUSE: $3k → 8%EVANSTON SCHOLARS: $2k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE ARAVA INSTITUTE: $20k → 16%INFINITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE ARAVA INSTITUTE: $20k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE ARAVA INSTITUTE: $10k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE ARAVA INSTITUTE: $10k → 16%MIDWEST ACCESS PROJECT: $5k → 14%MIDWEST ACCESS PROJECT: $5k → 14%MIDWEST ACCESS PROJECT: $5k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIDUM: $10k → 17%MIDWEST ACCESS PROJECT: $5k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIDUM: $10k → 17%MIDWEST ACCESS PROJECT: $3k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIDUM: $10k → 17%MIDWEST ACCESS PROJECT: $3k → 14%AMERICAN SUPPORTERS OF KIDUM: $10k → 17%MIDWEST ACCESS PROJECT: $3k → 14%AMERICAN SUPPORTERS OF KIDUM: $10k → 17%MIDWEST ACCESS PROJECT: $3k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIDUM: $5k → 17%MIDWEST ACCESS PROJECT: $3k → 14%YWCA EVANSTONNORTH SHORE: $5k → 14%YWCA EVANSTONNORTH SHORE: $5k → 14%YWCA EVANSTONNORTH SHORE: $5k → 14%YWCA EVANSTONNORTH SHORE: $5k → 14%CURT'S CAFE: $3k → 14%CURTS CAFE: $3k → 14%CURTS CAFE: $3k → 14%CURT'S CAFE: $3k → 14%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.
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 13% of The Reggi Marder Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Reggi Marder Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$377k · 17 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
1

Total granted

$377k
$1k

Still filing today

71%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
EducationEnvironmentHealthCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD
    8× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +28%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIDUM INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $36k · revenue +57%
  • RT
    Repro TLC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +727%

Funded once

  • H
    HADASSAH
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
Dorot Foundation
Philanthropy
2
The Yesod Avoda Foundation
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3
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
4
Jewish Year Abroad

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

International
5
The Abraham Initiatives Inc

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…

International
6
T'ruah

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…

International
7
Tzedek America

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…

Religion
8
Avotaynu Foundation Inc

Research and Educational Programs including but not Jewish history, genealogy, genetics, migrations, and related fields.

Social Science
9
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
10
Americans for the Israeli Third Wayinc

to address the deep social, economic, ethical, religious and ideological rifts that exist within Israeli society.

International
11
The Ari Fuld Project

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.

Education
12
Chasdei Avos

Support of not for profit organizations to assist them to attain their religious, educational, and charitable goals.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Avodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 20 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD: $140,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD+1 more: $4,500 · EnvironmentPlanned Parenthood of Nassau County Inc: $45,000 · OtherPlanned Parenthood of Nassau …YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore: $21,000 · OtherYWCA EvanstonNorth ShoreAMERICAN SUPPORTERS OF KIDUM: $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN SUPPORTERS OF KIDUMAmerican Supporters of Yedid Inc: $8,000 · OtherAmerican Supporters of Yedid …+4 more: $6,336 · Other+4 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIDUM INC: $36,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS …EVANSTON SCHOLARS: $10,500 · EducationEVANSTON SCHOLARSINFINITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 · EducationINFINITY FOUNDATI…CAMP NEBAGAMON FOUNDATION: $5,100 · EducationCAMP NEBAGAMON FO…Repro TLC: $32,500 · HealthRepro TLC+1 more: $1,000 · HealthWILLOW HOUSE: $15,000 · Community ImprovementAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC: $12,000 · Community ImprovementCURT'S CAFE: $14,500 · EmploymentAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $4,500 · International
Environment$144,500Other$100,336Education$59,100Health$33,500Community Improvement$27,000Employment$14,500International$4,500

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 budgetFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD: $140,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Nassau County Inc: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIDUM INC: $36,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetRepro TLC: $32,500 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetYWCA EvanstonNorth Shore: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWILLOW HOUSE: $15,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCURT'S CAFE: $14,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC: $12,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEVANSTON SCHOLARS: $10,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Supporters of Yedid Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetINFINITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCAMP NEBAGAMON FOUNDATION: $5,100 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $4,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHONOR THE EARTH: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $3,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe MOG Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 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 AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds HONOR THE EARTH ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds The MOG Project 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.

Evanston Community Fo…AbbVie FoundationJewish Federation of …Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Evanston Community FoundationIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Reggi Marder Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Reggi Marder Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    4report 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.

    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 20 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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