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Maurice & Arlene Reese Fdn at a glance

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Maurice & Arlene Reese Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$59k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$14k
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.

Arts & Culture$253kEducation$142kPhilanthropy$60kReligion$26kHuman Services$15kHealth$7kEnvironment$4k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
$7,649
Median grant
5
States reached
$901k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$13,900
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$12,000
LOW COUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR WOUNDED$10,000
WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA$7,649
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$5,749
ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA$5,000
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$2,649
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$2,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 10% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%FOLDS OF HONOR: $4k → 15%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%LOW COUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $11k → 10%LOW COUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%LOW COUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%LOW COUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%LOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR WOUNDED MILITA: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%LOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR WOUNDED: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $9k → 10%ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $6k → 10%MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15k → 10%LOW COUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR: $10k → 10%MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $12k → 10%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $12k → 10%LOW COUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR: $10k → 10%MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $11k → 10%ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $5k → 10%WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $10k → 10%LOW COUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR WOUNDED: $10k → 10%WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $10k → 10%ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $5k → 10%MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $9k → 10%LOW COUNTRY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 10%WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $9k → 10%ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $5k → 10%WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $8k → 10%WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $8k → 10%ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $5k → 10%WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $8k → 10%WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $8k → 10%ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $5k → 10%WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $7k → 10%WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $7k → 10%MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $14k → 10%MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $14k → 10%MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $14k → 10%MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $12k → 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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$483k · 14 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
3

Total granted

$483k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+50%

Still filing today

64%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman 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

  • MS
    MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $113k · revenue +41%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +39%
  • WC
    WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • TT
    TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • BU
    Bluffton Utd Methodist Church
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • MM
    MEMORY MATTERSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +50%
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
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.

Arts & Culture
2
Hawaii Symphony Orchestra

To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…

Arts & Culture
3
Minnesota Orchestral Association

The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.

Arts & Culture
4
Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc

To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.

Arts & Culture
5
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra

The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…

Arts & Culture
6
South Florida Symphony Orchestra Inc

The orchestra is dedicated to bringing orchestral music of the highest caliber to south florida. its mission is to delight, inspire and educate the communities we serve through music.

Arts & Culture
7
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

The mission of the st. louis symphony orchestra (slso) is to enrich lives through the power of music. the slso provides orchestra concerts, community programs, and educational resources for the st. louis community and beyond.

Arts & Culture
8
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
9
North Carolina Symphony Foundation

To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.

Arts & Culture
10
Charleston Symphony Orchestra

The charleston symphony's mission is to inspire and engage the community through exceptional musical performances and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
11
Johnston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

Johnston health foundation seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people in our communities by supporting the patients, programs, and services of unc health johnston. the foundation seeks to be a philanthropic leader and…

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12
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Inc; the most unlike its peers is Arts Center of Coastal Carolina. 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

11 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. 11 of the 20 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $112,748 · Arts & CultureMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCWISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $74,979 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INCARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $36,296 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINALOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR WOUNDED MILITARY HEROS: $20,000 · Arts & CultureLOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR WOUNDED MILITARY HEROS+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $94,140 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDAT…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $27,719 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS…FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $20,136 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATIONLOW COUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR: $60,000 · OtherLOW COUNTRY FOUNDATION FO…CHURCH OF THE PALMS UM: $12,425 · OtherCHURCH OF THE PALMS UMLOW COUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR WOUNDED: $10,000 · OtherLOW COUNTRY FOUNDATION FO…LOW COUNTRY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $7,949 · OtherLOW COUNTRY PRESBYTERIAN …TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE: $4,280 · OtherOLBRICH BOTANICAL GARDENS: $4,236 · Other+3 more: $8,449 · Other+3 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 · HealthMEMORY MATTERS: $2,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$249,023Education$141,995Other$112,339Health$2,000Human Services$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $112,748 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $94,140 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $74,979 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $36,296 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $27,719 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $20,136 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR WOUNDED MILITARY HEROS: $20,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetHILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIRASOL HEALTH INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORY MATTERS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR WOUNDED MILITARY HEROS ↗
  • Who funds HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds MIRASOL HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MEMORY MATTERS ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Ge Aerospace Foundati…Heritage Classic Foun…Coastal Community Fou…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Heritage Classic Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Maurice & Arlene Reese Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maurice & Arlene Reese Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 20 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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