· Public charity
Christopher Reeve Foundation
The christopher and dana reeve foundation is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by advancing innovative research and improving quality of life for individuals and families impacted by paralysis.
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.
The 145 grants below total $3,860,691 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,187,651 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $326,960 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k125 grants · $2.9M
- $50k–250k12 grants · $945k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PSYCHOGENICS INC | $185,950 |
| ADAPTIVE FITNESS LEGION | $100,000 |
| UPSTATE-CAROLINA ADAPTIVE GOLF | $100,000 |
| CUTTING FENCES FOUNDATION | $98,826 |
| NEUROWORX-DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC | $87,250 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | $67,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $55,000 |
| SCIBOSTON | $50,000 |
| ATLANTIS COMMUNITY INCADAPT (CIL) | $50,000 |
| ACCESS TO INDEPENDENCE INC (CIL) | $50,000 |
| SHAKE-A-LEG MIAMI INC | $50,000 |
| RAMP - REGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT (CIL) | $50,000 |
| PUSHING FORWARD | $40,000 |
| RANCHO RESEARCH INSTITUTE (RANCHO LOS AMIGOS NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER | $40,000 |
| YUCCA VALLEY MATERIAL LAB INC | $40,000 |
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, $5.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% 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.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
189 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 133 since wound down; 89 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
- UOUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation6× · 2017–2022 · $6.8M · revenue +61%
- UOUniversity of Miami9× · 2017–2025 · $412k · revenue +96%
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $359k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- LWLIFE WATERSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +58% · 62% of their budget
- MUMarquette Universityone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +24%
- PIPEOPLE INCone grant, 2019 · $100k
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 serve all north carolinians with significant disabilities by ensuring they can live independently in a barrier-free community of their choice through consumer-controlled, self-directed services.
The national ability center (the center) empowers individuals with disabilities by building self-esteem, confidence and lifetime skills through sport, recreation and educational programs.
The organization's goal is to foster a healthy lifestyle through outdoor sports for individuals with disabilities in a fun, accessible, and inclusive environment.
Our mission is to empower people with disabilities and their families to grow, develop, and thrive by providing essential skill-building, therapeutic, and recreational programs.
Independent living service to disabled clients including information and referral, advocacy, peer counseling, il skills training, housing, employment, ramp installation, emergency rent, utilities and food.
Celebrating all abilities and unlocking potential.
The mission is to maximize the independence of people with disabilities so they enjoy self-directed, productive lives.
Together, we create a warm and welcoming community enriching the lives of those we support.
The Center for Independence promotes community solutions and empowers individuals with disabilities to live independently.
We work with people with disabilities, their families and the community to create independence so that all may thrive.
We empower adults with disabilities to lead fulfilling lives. We are committed to creating a community where all people are valued and accepted.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is ABILITY360 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Madison Art Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
810 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. 810 of the 989 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 University of Louisville Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
- Who funds HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REHABILITATION HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CUTTING FENCES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE FITNESS LEGION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds ALS UNITED GREATER CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE CAROLINA ADAPTIVE GOLF ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE WATERS ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY ACCESS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENESIS HEALTH 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: Move United · Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn · Rei Cooperative Action Fund · The Hanger Charitable Foundation · Dralla Foundation Inc · Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust · Oliver-Hoffmann Foundation · Kessler Foundation Inc · Innovating Worthy Projects Foundation · Disabled Veterans National Foundation · The Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism Inc · Special People in Need
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 Christopher Reeve 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.
- Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine — 100% of income from government
- Community Vision Inc — 92% of income from government
- Triangle Inc — 90% of income from government
- South Florida Institute On Aging Inc — 69% of income from government
- Center for Medicare Advocacy Inc — 63% of income from government
- Kessler Foundation Inc — 54% of income from government
- Abilitree — 44% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Bay Area Center for Independent Living Inc — 7% of income from government
- Cheshire Home Inc — 6% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- New Horizons Inc — 4% 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.