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The Stewart J Rahr Foundation at a glance

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The Stewart J Rahr Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$12MHuman Services$5.3MEducation$3.4MArts & Culture$3.3MInternational$1.8MReligion$1.7MCivil Rights$1.1MSocial Science$600kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $580k
  • $250k+7 grants · $4.2M
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$97M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE A WISH METRO NEW YORK$1,000,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC$950,000
NYU LANGONE HEALTH$666,667
MELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE$500,000
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$420,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK TRUSTEES OF$400,000
NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL$250,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$150,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$100,000
GEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY$80,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TARAH & TEFILAH RAMAT ESHKO$50,000
NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR FURTHERANCE OF JEWISH EDUCATION$50,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$50,000
MAKE A WISH SOUTHERN FLORIDA$50,000
DANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION$50,000
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 (FY20–24, $355k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%THE MARK WAHLBERG YOUTH FOUNDATION: $200k → 8%LENNOX LEWIS LEAGUE OF CHAMPIONS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CELEBRITY ADVENTURES: $25k → 11%LUV MICHAEL: $50k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%YAMBA MALAWI: $5k → 17%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
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
HI
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 32 repeat orgs$6.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
48

Total granted

$22M
$5.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+8%

Still filing today

66%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationOther
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 UNITED HATZALAH INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +127%
  • MELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2.3M · revenue +103%
  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MILKEN CENTER FOR ADVANCING THE AMERICAN DREAM
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE UNITED HATZALAH
    one grant, 2022 · $555k
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
American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro Inc

The american friends of beit issie shapiro (afobis) is a national not for profit fundraising organization with regional offices in new york city, north miami beach, fl and los angeles, ca. afobis is dedicated to supporting beit issie…

Human Services
2
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
3
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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4
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
5
Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy
6
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
7
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
8
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
9
American Friends of Kohelet Policy Forum

The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.

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10
The Haron Dahan Fund for Bar-Ilan University in Israel

The fund's primary exempt mission is to solicit grants and contributions to support the educational mission of the bar-ilan university's azrieli faculty of medicine in the galilee.

Education
11
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

The foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with parkinson's today.

Health
12
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Jdm Foundation 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

60 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. 60 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/60
Grantees still filing
39/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAKE A WISH METRO NEW YORK: $3,000,000 · OtherMAKE A WISH METRO NEW YORKNYU LANGONE HEALTH: $2,333,335 · OtherNYU LANGONE HEALTHMAKE A WISH METRO NY: $2,112,500 · OtherMAKE A WISH METRO NYTHE MILKEN CENTER FOR ADVANCING THE AMERICAN DREAM: $1,000,000 · OtherTHE MILKEN CENTER FOR ADVANCING THE AMERICAN DREAMPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · OtherPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATIONTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $600,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE UNITED HATZALAH: $555,000 · OtherMELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $500,000 · Other+32 more: $2,985,821 · Other+32 moreMELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $2,333,333 · HealthMELANOMA RESEARCH …The Curetivity Foundation: $876,333 · HealthThe Curetivity Fou…GLOBAL PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 · HealthGLOBAL PROSTATE CA…Chopra Foundation: $250,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200,000 · HealthTHE DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $175,000 · Health+6 more: $325,000 · Health+6 morePROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,260,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCE…NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL: $875,000 · PhilanthropyNEPHCURE KIDNE…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $400,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID …JDM FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Philanthropy+6 more: $135,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $2,901,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF U…LOS ANGELES BALLET INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES …DANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION: $160,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $52,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,000,000 · EducationCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $200,000 · EducationGEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY: $165,000 · Education+3 more: $25,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,218,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $75,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · International+3 more: $27,000 · InternationalTHE MARK WAHLBERG YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 · Human ServicesLUV MICHAEL INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesLENNOX LEWIS LEAGUE OF CHAMPIONS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $25,000 · Human ServicesCELEBRITY ADVENTURES INC: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$14,086,656Health$4,959,666Philanthropy$3,820,000Arts & Culture$3,363,000Education$2,390,000International$1,370,000Human Services$355,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $2,901,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $2,333,333 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,260,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,000,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,218,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Curetivity Foundation: $876,333 over 5y, 16% of budgetNEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL: $875,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetGLOBAL PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $600,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $400,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChopra Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES BALLET INC: $250,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH AND TEFILAH RAMAT ESHKOL INC: $225,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARK WAHLBERG YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $175,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY: $165,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetDANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJDM FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MOUNT VERNON INC: $120,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetTHE JUMP AND BALL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 97% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR FURTHERANCE OF JEWISH EDUCATION AND AFFILLIATES: $76,919 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAILEY'S CAFE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetFRIENDS OF DUVDEVAN: $50,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUV MICHAEL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetRHONDA'S KISS: $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHY HUMOR INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWestern Wall Heritage Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLENNOX LEWIS LEAGUE OF CHAMPIONS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetTHE HEATHER ON EARTH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BNAI LEVY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCELEBRITY ADVENTURES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECTION 16H GROUP: $10,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetMommys Heart Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 9.6% 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundFjcThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Ayco Charitable F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Combined Jewish Phila…Morgan Stanley Global…Chubb Charitable Foun…The New York Communit…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…California Community …
Jewish Communal FundNY25.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · California Community 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 Stewart J Rahr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stewart J Rahr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get 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 · 0–20%
    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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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