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Reach Higher 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEANING FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AMBASSADOR HIGH SCHOOL | $20,450 |
| BRITWEEK INC | $16,800 |
| FULFILLMENT FUND | $11,000 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FORDHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| READY TO SUCCEED | $7,500 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $5,500 |
| CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $5,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| MINDS MATTER | $5,000 |
| MINDS MATTER | $5,000 |
| N OF ONE | $3,500 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 22% of Reach Higher Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MMMINDS MATTER NATIONAL INC5× · 2019–2024 · $198k · revenue +179%
- MMMINDS MATTER OF LOS ANGELES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +63%
- MMMINDS MATTER OF BAY AREA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +21%
Funded once
MINDS MATTER OF PORTLAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +71%- MMMINDS MATTER OF CLEVELAND OHIO INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +57%
- MMMINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -30%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Minds matter colorado connects driven and determined students from low-income families with the people, preparation, and possibilities to succeed in college, create their future, and change the world.
Minds matter of the twin cities, inc. seeks to enable bright and motivated low-income inner-city high school students to achieve academic excellence and to overcome barriers limiting opportunities for post-secondary education.
College match partners with high schools in los angeles county to identify high-achieving, low-income high school students and provide them with the necessary tools and guidance to get into top-ranked colleges with significant financial…
Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…
10,000 degrees is a leading college success nonprofit in the san francisco bay area. we help students from low-income backgrounds gain access to and complete higher education to positively impact their communities and the world.…
Scholarmatch's mission is to support underserved first-generation college students from low-income backgrounds to earn a bachelor's degree within five years, providing virtual individualized advising, targeted financial support, and career…
The mission of Momentum Education is to provide academic, career, and financial support to help students from low-income families earn a post-secondary education and secure a job with a living wage.
Berkeley Community Scholars empowers Berkeley youth who face racial, economic, and other barriers to achieving their college dreams by providing a unique experience of scholarships, advising, mentoring, and a community of support.
First graduate's mission is to help students become the first in their families to graduate from college ready to pursue a career that is meaningful to them. we are a 12-year+ free program-recruiting students in 6th grade. offerings…
Mentor program for students
Mentoring Mentors is a Baltimore-based non-profit dedicated to developing future community leaders through exposure that leads to college and career readiness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minds Matter of Nyc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Turkish Womens Initiative. 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.
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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 34 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds AMBASSADOR HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VISTAMAR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF BAY AREA INC ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds Meaning Foundation ↗
- Who funds BRITWEEK ↗
- Who funds READY TO SUCCEED ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF PORTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF CLEVELAND OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF SEATTLE INC ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds Legacy Global Programs ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF SO CAL SCHOLARSHIP FND 14-090259 ↗
- Who funds N of One ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF NYC INC ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCOAST SPORTS ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA DELTA DELTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Turkish Womens Initiative ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Perlman Family Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Express Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Reach Higher Foundation 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.
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.
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