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Loraine & Melinese Reuter Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 8
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$585k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Loraine & Melinese Reuter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureOther
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
FY2025still arriving2$15k50%
FY20244$33k50%
FY20233$34k33%
FY20224$36k25%
FY20213$27k33%
FY20202$20k50%
FY20194$32k75%
FY20178$28kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$94kYouth Development$81kArts & Culture$40kHealth$8kHuman Services$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State$44,000514%
New City Kids Inc$37,00040%
Three Pillars an Educational Service Provider$35,00030%
The New Common School Foundation$10,00010%
Gilda's Club Metro Detroit$8,00020%
Michigan Philharmonic$6,5001n/a
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc$5,50020%
Sphinx Organization Inc$5,00010%
Starr Commonwealth$3,00010%
Lynn University Inc$2,50010%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($69k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Loraine & Melinese Reuter Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBurr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State: $44,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetNew City Kids Inc: $37,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThree Pillars an Educational Service Provider: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe New Common School Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGilda's Club Metro Detroit: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDetroit Symphony Orchestra Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSphinx Organization Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStarr Commonwealth: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLynn University Inc: $2,500 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 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.

Helen L Kay Charitabl…Community Foundation …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Helen L Kay Charitable TrustOH13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Helen L Kay Charitable Trust · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Loraine & Melinese Reuter Foundation

How much does Loraine & Melinese Reuter Foundation give?
Loraine & Melinese Reuter Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $15,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Loraine & Melinese Reuter Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Youth Development (36%), Arts & Culture (18%).
Who are Loraine & Melinese Reuter Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State ($44k), New City Kids Inc ($37k), Three Pillars an Educational Service Provider ($35k).
Does Loraine & Melinese Reuter Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Loraine & Melinese Reuter Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Loraine & Melinese Reuter Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Helen L Kay Charitable Trust, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Loraine & Melinese Reuter Foundation based?
Loraine & Melinese Reuter Foundation is based in MI.

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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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