How much does Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust give?

Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust reported 7 grants totaling $5,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (29%), Education (19%), Food & Nutrition (15%).

Who are Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Shriners' Hospital for Children ($7k), Rescue Mission of Middle Georgia Inc ($6k), College of Charleston Foundation ($5k).

Does Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust 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 Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust based?

Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust is based in SC.

Foundation Dossiers

South Carolina · Private foundation

Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust

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.

$5k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 7
Grants FY2024: 7
Organizations funded FY2023: 14%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $750
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,250
Organizations funded a year: 6 to 10; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 4
Total assets, FY2024: $65k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthHuman ServicesOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	6	$4k	33%
FY2023	7	$9k	14%
FY2022	6	$7k	17%
FY2021	7	$5k	14%
FY2020	10	$7k	60%
FY2019	6	$5k	33%
FY2018	9	$6k	11%
FY2017	9	$12k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$17kEducation$11kFood & Nutrition$9kHousing & Shelter$6kPhilanthropy$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kHuman Services$4kScience & Tech$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Shriners' Hospital for Children	$6,800	7	0%
Rescue Mission of Middle Georgia Inc	$5,500	6	0%
College of Charleston Foundation	$4,850	4	0%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$4,000	5	0%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society	$3,250	3	0%
I Heart Hungry Kids	$2,000	3	5%
Green Heart Project Inc	$2,000	3	0%
Lowcountry Food Bank Inc	$1,100	2	0%
The Gift of Music Foundation Inc	$400	1	0%
Congregation Dor Tikvah Inc	$250	1	n/a

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust supplied at peak.

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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 9.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

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About Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust

How much does Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust give?: Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust reported 7 grants totaling $5,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (29%), Education (19%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
Who are Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Shriners' Hospital for Children ($7k), Rescue Mission of Middle Georgia Inc ($6k), College of Charleston Foundation ($5k).
Does Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust 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 Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust based?: Leo E and Helen H Reese Trust is based in SC.