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Ray Reece Environmental Journalism Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
75%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$100
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,061
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$183k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Ray Reece Environmental Journalism Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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 arriving3$3k33%
FY20244$2k75%
FY20231$1k100%
FY20226$2k50%
FY20219$5k100%
FY20206$5k83%
FY20191$23kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Environment$28kArts & Culture$5kEducation$4kRecreation & Sports$1kHuman Services$645Public Benefit$542Housing & Shelter$542Philanthropy$271Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Society of Environmental Journalists Inc$27,00021%
Chautauqua Foundation Inc$2,27410%
Honolulu Civil Beat Inc$1,51220%
The Trail Conservancy$1,39620%
Open Door Preschool$54710%
Honktx$54711%
Texas Tribune Inc$54210%
The Other Ones Foundation$54210%
Sammys House$54210%
Persephone Project$4001n/a
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All grantees of Ray Reece Environmental Journalism Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Society of Environmental Journalists Inc$27,00021%
Chautauqua Foundation Inc$2,27410%
Honolulu Civil Beat Inc$1,51220%
The Trail Conservancy$1,39620%
Open Door Preschool$54710%
Honktx$54711%
Texas Tribune Inc$54210%
The Other Ones Foundation$54210%
Sammys House$54210%
Persephone Project$4001n/a
River Relief Inc D/B/A Missouri River Relief$30520%
Austin Youth River Watch$27110%
Central Texas Food Bank Inc$20020%
Shoal Creek Conservancy$10910%
Texas Land Conservancy$10910%
Film Society of Austin Inc$10310%
The Safe Alliance$10310%
Austin Wildlife Rescue$10010%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($4k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ray Reece Environmental Journalism Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSociety of Environmental Journalists Inc: $27,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetChautauqua Foundation Inc: $2,274 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHonolulu Civil Beat Inc: $1,512 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trail Conservancy: $1,396 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Door Preschool: $547 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHonktx: $547 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTexas Tribune Inc: $542 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Other Ones Foundation: $542 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSammys House: $542 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRiver Relief Inc D/B/A Missouri River Relief: $305 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAustin Youth River Watch: $271 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShoal Creek Conservancy: $109 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Land Conservancy: $109 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFilm Society of Austin Inc: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Safe Alliance: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAustin Wildlife Rescue: $100 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 17.

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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Better Business Bureau · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Mfi Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · St David's Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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 Ray Reece Environmental Journalism Foundation

How much does Ray Reece Environmental Journalism Foundation give?
Ray Reece Environmental Journalism Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $3,222 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Ray Reece Environmental Journalism Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (68%), Arts & Culture (12%), Education (10%).
Who are Ray Reece Environmental Journalism Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Society of Environmental Journalists Inc ($27k), Chautauqua Foundation Inc ($2k), Honolulu Civil Beat Inc ($2k).
Does Ray Reece Environmental Journalism Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ray Reece Environmental Journalism Foundation 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 Ray Reece Environmental Journalism Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Better Business Bureau, Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation.
Where is Ray Reece Environmental Journalism Foundation based?
Ray Reece Environmental Journalism Foundation is based in TX.

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 24 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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