Wisconsin · Private foundation
Guy Reno Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $318k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2026
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 40
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 5
- Total assets, FY2026
- $5.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 9% of the organizations Guy Reno Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 34 | $314k | 12% |
| FY2025 | 32 | $312k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $287k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $313k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $295k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $270k | 3% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $303k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $288k | 5% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| K Cancer Baseball | $160,000 | 7 | 59% |
| Natural Land Institute | $145,588 | 10 | 1% |
| Best Friends Animal Society | $115,000 | 10 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $93,000 | 10 | 0% |
| Regional Access & Mobilization Project Inc | $85,000 | 10 | 0% |
| Rockford University | $80,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Zion Development Corporation | $73,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Moms Angels | $52,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Carpenter's Place Inc | $51,500 | 10 | 0% |
| Remedies Renewing Lives | $50,000 | 10 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Guy Reno Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern IL · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation · The Ben Harding Family Foundation · Ralph J Baudhuin Foundation · United Way of Rock River Valley · Sjostrom & Sons Foundation · Blazer Foundation
How this is measured
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About Guy Reno Family Foundation
- How much does Guy Reno Family Foundation give?
- Guy Reno Family Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $318,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 40 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Guy Reno Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Health (17%), Human Services (14%), Philanthropy (11%).
- Who are Guy Reno Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: K Cancer Baseball ($160k), Natural Land Institute ($146k), Best Friends Animal Society ($115k).
- Does Guy Reno Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Guy Reno Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Guy Reno Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Northern IL, The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation, Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008.
- Where is Guy Reno Family Foundation based?
- Guy Reno Family Foundation is based in WI.
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