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Dennis & Jane Reese Family 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.

$282k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$90,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 4
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$383k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Dennis & Jane Reese Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$282k67%
FY20234$180k75%
FY20223$140k100%
FY20214$52k50%
FY20203$120kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$425kEducation$165kPhilanthropy$52kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kHuman Services$32kReligion$30kCommunity Improvement$10kRecreation & Sports$200Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Team Heart Inc$255,000313%
Cardiovascular Education Foundation Inc$120,0002n/a
Geneseo Foundation$52,00015%
University of Michigan$50,000110%
World Central Kitchen Inc$50,00010%
Dennis & Jane Reese Private Operating Foundation$50,000115%
First Congregational Church$30,0002n/a
Chicago Dream Center$30,00025%
Quad Cities Christian School$10,00011%
Geneseo Chamber of Commerce$10,00015%
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All grantees of Dennis & Jane Reese Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Team Heart Inc$255,000313%
Cardiovascular Education Foundation Inc$120,0002n/a
Geneseo Foundation$52,00015%
University of Michigan$50,000110%
World Central Kitchen Inc$50,00010%
Dennis & Jane Reese Private Operating Foundation$50,000115%
First Congregational Church$30,0002n/a
Chicago Dream Center$30,00025%
Quad Cities Christian School$10,00011%
Geneseo Chamber of Commerce$10,00015%
Inspire Continuing Care$2,00011%
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$20010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($115k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dennis & Jane Reese Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTeam Heart Inc: $255,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetGeneseo Foundation: $52,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDennis & Jane Reese Private Operating Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetChicago Dream Center: $30,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetQuad Cities Christian School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGeneseo Chamber of Commerce: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetInspire Continuing Care: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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Find your warmest path to Dennis & Jane Reese Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Dennis & Jane Reese Family Foundation

How much does Dennis & Jane Reese Family Foundation give?
Dennis & Jane Reese Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $282,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 4 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Dennis & Jane Reese Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (55%), Education (21%), Philanthropy (7%).
Who are Dennis & Jane Reese Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Team Heart Inc ($255k), Cardiovascular Education Foundation Inc ($120k), Geneseo Foundation ($52k).
Does Dennis & Jane Reese Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dennis & Jane Reese Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dennis & Jane Reese Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Dennis & Jane Reese Family Foundation based?
Dennis & Jane Reese Family Foundation is based in IL.

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 15 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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