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Rea Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
205
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$15MEducation$5.5MHealth$812kHuman Services$657kYouth Development$148kPhilanthropy$145kRecreation & Sports$90kHousing & Shelter$80kOther$0
02FY2024 · 205 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $144k
  • $10k–50k144 grants · $2.5M
  • $50k–250k32 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$98M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIDLAND ISD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$350,000
SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS$150,000
MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST$150,000
ODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$150,000
TRINITY SCHOOL OF MIDLAND TEXAS$150,000
MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY$135,000
ELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN$100,000
ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND$100,000
HISPANIC CULTURE CENTER OF MIDLAND$100,000
MIDLAND FESTIVAL BALLET$80,000
MIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE INC$80,000
Individual grant recipient$80,000
SCHREINER UNIVERSITY$75,000
LEVELLAND WALLACE THEATER$75,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $411k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FIDDLES ON WHEELS: $15k → 10%ENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FDN: $30k → 16%ENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUDE FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%ENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%VIRGINIA VOICE INC: $20k → 9%ABBOTT HOUSE: $20k → 9%SAN ANTONIO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $20k → 16%MANOR PARK INC: $80k → 12%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $50k → 17%MANOR PARK INC: $30k → 12%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $30k → 17%MANOR PARK INC: $16k → 12%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $25k → 17%MANOR PARK INC: $15k → 12%MUSICA VIVA INC: $5k → 17%MUSICA VIVA INC: $5k → 17%MUSICA VIVA INC: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
WV
VA
MD
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AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 197 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

197 repeat relationships — 134 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 71 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

197
91

Total granted

$19M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+12%

Still filing today

93%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +36% · 29% of their budget
  • MI
    MIDLAND ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $950k · revenue +207%
  • MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $585k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • SR
    STANDING ROOM ONLY
    one grant, 2023 · $350k
  • LS
    LUBBOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +31%
  • TF
    The Fields Edge
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -35%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Baroque Opera Company

American baroque opera company operates in the state of texas for the primary purpose of furthering the appreciaton of music, particularly opera, for the general public. american baroque opera company performs select operas throughout the…

Arts & Culture
2
TexArts Association for Visual & Performing Arts

TexARTS is an arts education and performance destination that builds character, professionalism, and careers. Its mission is to cultivate a thriving arts community by exposing all people to the visual and performing arts. TexARTS prepares…

Arts & Culture
3
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra

To shape the future of classical music by energizing, modernizing, and personalizing the concert experience.

Arts & Culture
4
Dallas Chamber Symphony

Increase community involvement to advance music and art through education events and our TechNotes curriculum, group collaborations, film and instrument competitions, performance jobs, and general public concerts

Arts & Culture
5
American Festival for the Arts

Founded in 1993, American Festival for the Arts (AFA) provides high quality community-based music education programs and performance opportunities designed primarily for youth and, through its concert series and outreach, seeks to broaden…

Arts & Culture
6
Texarkana Symphony Orchestra Inc

The mission of the texarkana symphony orchestra, inc. is to pursue, for all, the transformative power of symphonic music through excellence in live permormance and education.

Arts & Culture
7
Houston Grand Opera Association Inc

The mission of HGO is to enrich our diverse community through the art of opera. We will do so by creating, curating, exploring, and producing outstanding experiences centered around the human voice.(Continued on Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
8
Chamber Music Tulsa

To share the experience of chamber music through live performance and community engagement

Arts & Culture
9
Austin Chamber Music Center

The Austin Chamber Music Center creates chamber music experiences that connect, educate, and inspire our community.

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Main Street Theater Houston

To create theater that challenges its audience to think and its artists to grow. We accomplish this by presenting an articulate and compelling product in an intimate setting, creating employment for Houston-based artists, and memorable…

Arts & Culture
12
Tucson Symphony Society

The mission of the Tucson Symphony is to build and enrich community through the experience of live music of the highest quality.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Live Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cedar Park Public Library Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersSenior Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Independent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Elementary Literacy TutoringCancer Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Jewish Community Organizati…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Youth Development CentersDevelopmental Disabilities …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Youth Mentoring ProgramsPublic Library OperationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyDance Arts OrganizationsSchool District FoundationsCommunity FoundationsLocal History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%2%<5yr16%6%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr10%25%35–55yr13%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr16%7%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr10%29%35–55yr13%32%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.3%1/325
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,479

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

315 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 315 of the 360 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
78
Early backer (in before they grew)
310/315
Grantees still filing
222/315
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST — $1,200,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWESTARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND — $580,000 · Arts & CultureMidland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc — $500,000 · Arts & CultureHISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER OF MIDLAND — $430,000 · Arts & Culture+104 more — $8,189,200 · Arts & Culture+104 moreMIDLAND ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $950,000 · OtherMIDLAND ISD EDUCATION FO…STANDING ROOM ONLY — $350,000 · OtherSTANDING ROOM ONLYTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PERMIAN BASIN — $250,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS …Hillcrest School Inc — $182,500 · OtherHOSPICE OF MIDLAND INC — $175,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS — $150,000 · Other+43 more — $2,305,500 · Other+43 moreMARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY — $585,000 · EducationMARY BALDWIN UNIVERS…ODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $510,000 · EducationODESSA COLLEGE FOUND…TRINITY SCHOOL OF MIDLAND TEXAS — $235,000 · EducationTRINITY SCHOOL OF MI…ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $228,000 · EducationANGELO STATE UNIVERS…BYNUM SCHOOL — $215,000 · EducationBYNUM SCHOOLSchreiner University — $185,000 · EducationMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $180,000 · EducationUniversity of St Thomas — $140,000 · EducationMidland County Public Library Foundation — $140,000 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $135,000 · EducationUniversity of Dallas — $130,000 · Education+19 more — $1,023,500 · Education+19 moreHIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC — $185,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $155,000 · HealthBaylor Health Care System Foundation — $50,000 · HealthCOVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthMIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC — $40,000 · HealthGaylord Hospital INC — $25,000 · HealthSENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesMANOR PARK INC — $141,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CHILDRENS GRIEF — $105,000 · Human ServicesENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Human ServicesCASSATT IN THE BASIN — $255,000 · Public BenefitUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 · PhilanthropyThe Dallas Opera Foundation — $35,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$10,899,200Other$4,363,000Education$3,706,500Health$505,000Human Services$471,000Public Benefit$255,000Philanthropy$175,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST — $1,200,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetMIDLAND ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $950,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetMARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY — $585,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND — $580,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $510,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetMidland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc — $500,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetHISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER OF MIDLAND — $430,000 over 4y, 62% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN OPERA — $315,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetMIDLAND FESTIVAL BALLET — $280,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $280,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE INC — $275,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN BASIN — $270,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetCASSATT IN THE BASIN — $255,000 over 4y, 75% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC — $240,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetTRINITY SCHOOL OF MIDLAND TEXAS — $235,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $228,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBYNUM SCHOOL — $215,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetFort Worth Opera Association Inc — $200,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetBALLET LUBBOCK — $200,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetLEVELLAND WALLACE THEATER — $190,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetSchreiner University — $185,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC — $185,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLubbock Community Theatre — $185,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetHillcrest School Inc — $182,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetEMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC — $180,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $180,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHOSPICE OF MIDLAND INC — $175,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDALLAS CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC — $155,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $155,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMARFA PUBLIC RADIO CORPORATION — $155,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC — $150,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetVan Cliburn Foundation Inc — $150,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetThe West Texas Jazz Society Inc — $145,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetBALLET ARTISTS OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $145,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetMANOR PARK INC — $141,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas — $140,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC — $140,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetContemporary Arts Museum Houston — $140,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMidland County Public Library Foundation — $140,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $135,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLUBBOCK ARTS ALLIANCE INC — $130,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetAUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY — $130,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetUniversity of Dallas — $130,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLUBBOCK LIVE FESTIVAL FOR THE ARTS — $120,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetMARC INC — $110,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetROVER DRAMAWERKS — $105,000 over 4y, 13% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Abell-Hanger Foundati…Permian Basin Area Fo…Fmh FoundationWayne & Jo Ann Moore …Pevehouse Family Foun…Scharbauer Foundation…Helen Greathouse Char…Paul and Katherine Mo…Bryant Family Foundat…The Henry FoundationBeal FoundationYarborough Foundation
Abell-Hanger FoundationTX80.1× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Fmh Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Paul and Katherine Morrow Family Foundation · Bryant Family Foundation · The Henry Foundation · Beal Foundation · Yarborough Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Rea Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Gaylord Hospital Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Friends of Chamber Music — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
69report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Rea Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Rea Charitable Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 360 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines