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Margaret W Reed 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.

$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$111kArts & Culture$65kCommunity Improvement$19kAnimals$9kCivil Rights$9kYouth Development$8kEducation$6kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,200
Median grant
3
States reached
$311k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIZMO CDA MAKERS SPACE$5,000
IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE$5,000
THE COMBUSTIBLE COMPANY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,200
TASK FORCE ON HUMAN RELATIONS$2,000
CDAIDE$1,500
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$1,000
IDAHO HUMANITIES COUNCIL$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TRAILING OF THE SHEEP: $2k → 7%SNAKE RIVER ALLIANCE: $6k → 8%COEUR D'ALENE SYMPHONY: $2k → 10%IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE: $17k → 12%THE COMBUSTIBLE COMPANY: $5k → 14%MILLS COLLEGE: $2k → 10%MONO LAKE COMMITTEE: $1k → 10%NATIONAL AUDOBON SOCIETY: $6k → 17%LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS: $1k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $2k → 18%CITY OF WOODRUFF: $10k → 10%GRAY DOG PRESS: $7k → 12%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%TRAILING OF THE SHEEP: $1k → 7%IDAHO HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $1k → 8%KOOTENAI ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE: $8k → 10%IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE: $5k → 12%THE COMBUSTIBLE COMPANY: $5k → 14%MILLS COLLEGE: $1k → 10%MONO LAKE COMMITTEE: $1k → 10%THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $1k → 14%INLAND NORTHWEST COMMUNITY FOUNDATI: $3k → 12%SNAKE RIVER ALLIANCE: $1k → 8%KOOTENAI ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE: $7k → 10%IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE: $5k → 12%THE COMBUSTIBLE COMPANY: $5k → 14%MILLS COLLEGE: $1k → 10%NATIONAL AUDOBON SOCIETY: $1k → 17%PUBLIC RADIO STATION KPBX: $2k → 12%IDAHO HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $1k → 8%GIZMO CDA MAKERS SPACE: $5k → 10%IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE: $5k → 12%THE COMBUSTIBLE COMPANY: $5k → 14%IDAHO HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $1k → 8%GIZMO CDA MAKERS SPACE: $5k → 10%IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE: $3k → 12%THE COMBUSTIBLE COMPANY: $5k → 14%NATIONAL AUDOBON SOCIETY: $1k → 17%IDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $1k → 8%CITY OF COEUR D ALENE: $5k → 10%IDAHO MYTHWEAVER: $1k → 12%GIZMO CDA MAKERS SPACE: $4k → 10%GIZMO CDA MAKERS SPACE: $4k → 10%KOOTENAI ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE: $3k → 10%SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL OF NORTH IDAH: $2k → 10%KOOTENAI ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE: $2k → 10%HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION INSTITUTE: $1k → 10%SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL OF NORTH IDAH: $1k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
WI
NY
NJ
CA
TN
DC
AL
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$200k · 17 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
24

Total granted

$200k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-43%
+10%

Still filing today

53%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureCivil RightsEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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

  • IC
    IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +35%
  • AF
    ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $17k · revenue +169%
  • NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $13k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • IY
    IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +140%
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
Wild Salmon Rivers

To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…

Environment
2
Idaho Wildlife Federation

The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.

Animals
3
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
4
Indigenous Idaho Alliance Inc
Civil Rights
5
Teton Regional Land Trust Inc

The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.

Environment
6
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
7
Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources

The organization pursues higher standards of news coverage of natural resources and the environment -- standards of accuracy, fairness, balance, depth and context.

Arts & Culture
8
Western Environmental Law Center

Public interest law firm - the western environmental law center uses the power of the law to foster thriving, resilient western u.s. lands, waters, wildlife, and communities in the face of a changing climate. we envision a thriving west,…

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9
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
10
Intertribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council
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11
Washington Water Trust

Wwt's mission is to protect and restore water in rivers and streams across washington state. washington water trust restores and protects water in rivers and streams and promotes sustainable freshwater management in washington, and, more…

Environment
12
Intertribal Agriculture Council

The intertribal agriculture council was founded in 1987 to pursue and promote the conservation, development and use of our agricultural resources of american indian and alaska native tribes.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Idaho Humanities Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cdaide Inc. 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

24 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. 24 of the 45 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/24
Grantees still filing
12/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC: $35,000 · OtherIDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INCCONSERVATION VOTERS FOR IDAHO ED FU: $29,000 · OtherCONSERVATION VOTERS FOR IDAHO ED FUCOMBUSTIBLE COMPANY: $25,000 · OtherCOMBUSTIBLE COMPANYGIZMO CDA MAKERS SPACE: $18,500 · OtherGIZMO CDA MAKERS SPACEIndividual grant recipient: $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherARTS CULTURE ALLIANCE: $9,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,924 · Other+18 more: $39,200 · Other+18 moreKOOTENAI ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE: $19,000 · EnvironmentKOOTENAI ENVIRONMENT…ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC: $16,500 · EnvironmentADVOCATES FOR THE WE…NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $8,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOC…THE SNAKE RIVER ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $7,000 · EnvironmentTHE SNAKE RIVER ALLI…+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentINLAND NORTHWEST OPERA INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureIDAHO HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $1,100 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $7,850 · Human ServicesKOOTENAI COUNTY TASK FORCE ON HUMAN RELATIONS: $5,000 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $1,000 · Civil RightsInnovia Foundation: $3,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MONO LAKE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyThe Trustees of Princeton University: $1,000 · EducationCOEUR DALENE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationIdaho Mythweaver Inc: $1,000 · Education
Other$192,624Environment$51,500Arts & Culture$16,600Human Services$7,850Civil Rights$7,000Philanthropy$5,000Education$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 budgetIDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetKOOTENAI ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE: $19,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC: $16,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetINLAND NORTHWEST OPERA INC: $11,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $7,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SNAKE RIVER ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $7,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetKOOTENAI COUNTY TASK FORCE ON HUMAN RELATIONS: $5,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetIDAHO HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMILLS COLLEGE: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInnovia Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONO LAKE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCDAIDE Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOEUR DALENE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIdaho Mythweaver Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSEATTLE OPERA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAPTOR CHAPTER INC BIRDS OF PREY NORTHWEST: $500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Idaho Community Found…Innovia FoundationFirst Interstate Banc…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Idaho Community Foundation IncID21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Innovia Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Margaret W Reed Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margaret W Reed Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to Margaret W Reed Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 45 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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