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Loraine & Melinese Reuter Foundation at a glance

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Loraine & Melinese Reuter Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$585k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,000
GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Starr Commonwealth Inc: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$157k · 6 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
11

Total granted

$157k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+32%

Still filing today

67%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BO
    Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State
    5× · 2020–2024 · $44k
  • NEW CITY KIDS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $37k · revenue -9%
  • TP
    THREE PILLARS AN EDUCATIONAL SERVICE PROVIDER
    3× · 2019–2021 · $35k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • DY
    DETROIT YOUTH CONCERT CHOIR
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
  • TN
    THE NEW COMMON SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • LA
    LINCOLN-KING ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Grand Rapids Symphony Society

To share great music that moves the human soul and to excel at providing distinctive musical experiences, with an emphasis on live orchestra music, for diverse audiences throughout west michigan.

Arts & Culture
2
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
3
New World Symphony Inc

Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.

Education
4
The Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts Inc

To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.

—
5
Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc

The mission of the princeton symphony orchestra is to leverage the power of live music to uplift the human experience.

Arts & Culture
6
Harmony Dc Public Charter Schools

The mission of the charter school is to prepare students for higher learning in a safe, caring, and collaborative atmosphere through a quality learner-centered educational program with a strong emphasis on science, technology, engineering,…

Education
7
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

—
8
Miami Music Project Inc

Miami music project uses music as an instrument for social transformation, empowering children to acquire values and achieve their full potential, positively affecting their society through the study and performance of music. our vision is…

Arts & Culture
9
Sycamore Schools Inc

Sycamore School exists so that academically gifted children can experience the enriched, accelerated education they need to reach their potential and lead responsible, constructive, fulfilling lives.

Education
10
Cleveland Pops Orchestra

The cleveland pops orchestra, led by conductor carl topilow, performs the highest quality symphonic pops music to entertain and enrich a wide and diverse audience and provides educational programs to develop an enduring appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
11
Creative Minds International Public Charter School

The mission of the charter school is to cultivate within all of our students the mindset, skills, creativity, and commitment to equity essential in becoming globally aware and independently minded citizens.

Education
12
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc; the most unlike its peers is Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THREE PILLARS AN EDUCATIONAL SERVICE PROVIDER: $35,000 · OtherTHREE PILLARS AN EDUCATIONAL SERVICE PROVIDERWESTERN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $27,000 · OtherWESTERN SCHOOL DISTRICTDETROIT YOUTH CONCERT CHOIR: $12,000 · OtherDETROIT YOUTH CONCERT CHOIRJACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10,000 · OtherJACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTLINCOLN-KING ACADEMY: $9,000 · OtherLINCOLN-KING ACADEMYMichigan Philharmonic: $6,500 · OtherMichigan PhilharmonicCHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $5,000 · Other+3 more: $5,500 · OtherBurr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State: $44,000 · Youth DevelopmentBurr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan StateNEW CITY KIDS INC: $37,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW CITY KIDS INCGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $8,000 · Arts & CultureGILDA'S C…DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureDETROIT S…SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSPHINX OR…THE NEW COMMON SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationLYNN UNIVERSITY INC: $2,500 · EducationSTARR COMMONWEALTH: $3,000 · Human Services
Other$110,000Youth Development$81,000Arts & Culture$18,500Education$12,500Human Services$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Loraine & Melinese Reuter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Loraine & Melinese Reuter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Lynn University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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