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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.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.3MRecreation & Sports$55kSocial Science$35kEmployment$25kArts & Culture$18kYouth Development$13kPhilanthropy$7kScience & Tech$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$584k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$5,000
MINDS MATTER$5,000
CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION$5,000
MINDS MATTER$5,000
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$5,000
N OF ONE$3,500
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$2,500
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:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%MEANING FOUNDATION: $25k → 5%FULFILLMENT FUND: $11k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $10k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $5k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $4k → 14%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

NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
MD
AZ
DC
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 22% of Reach Higher Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Reach Higher Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 13 repeat orgs$141k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
14

Total granted

$1.1M
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+57%

Still filing today

69%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MM
    MINDS MATTER NATIONAL INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $198k · revenue +179%
  • MM
    MINDS MATTER OF LOS ANGELES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +63%
  • MM
    MINDS MATTER OF BAY AREA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • MINDS MATTER OF PORTLAND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +71%
  • MM
    MINDS MATTER OF SEATTLE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +119%
  • MM
    MINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -30%
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
Minds Matter Colorado Inc

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.

Youth Development
2
Minds Matter of the Twin Cities Inc

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.

Youth Development
3
Schuler Education Foundation
Philanthropy
4
College Match

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…

Education
5
Stem Advantage

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…

Youth Development
6
10000 Degrees

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.…

Education
7
Scholarmatch Inc

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…

Education
8
Momentum Education

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.

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9
Berkeley Community Scholars Dba Berkeley Community Fund

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.

Philanthropy
10
First Graduate

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…

Youth Development
11
Real Talk Mentoring Inc

Mentor program for students

Youth Development
12
Mentoring Mentors Inc

Mentoring Mentors is a Baltimore-based non-profit dedicated to developing future community leaders through exposure that leads to college and career readiness.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minds Matter of Nyc Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
20/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMBASSADOR HIGH SCHOOL: $248,810 · EducationAMBASSADOR HIGH SCHOOLVISTAMAR SCHOOL: $230,985 · EducationVISTAMAR SCHOOLTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $137,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA+5 more: $45,300 · Education+5 moreTRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $178,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLE…FORDHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $51,000 · OtherFORDHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOLHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $35,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLMINDS MATTER OF BAY AREA INC: $35,000 · OtherMINDS MATTER OF BAY AREA IN…AMERICAN MARTYRS SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN MARTYRS SCHOOL+4 more: $31,000 · Other+4 moreMINDS MATTER NATIONAL INC: $197,500 · Youth DevelopmentMINDS MATTER NATIONAL INCMINDS MATTER OF LOS ANGELES INC: $64,600 · Youth DevelopmentMINDS MATTER OF LOS ANGELES…MINDS MATTER OF CHICAGO INC: $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentMINDS MATTER OF CHICAGO INC+7 more: $46,250 · Youth Development+7 moreFULFILLMENT FUND: $29,500 · Human ServicesMeaning Foundation: $25,000 · Human ServicesLegacy Global Programs: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $1,500 · PhilanthropyN of One: $3,500 · HealthWESTCOAST SPORTS ASSOCIATES INC: $2,200 · Recreation & SportsTurkish Womens Initiative: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$662,595Other$350,000Youth Development$340,850Human Services$54,500Philanthropy$6,500Health$3,500Recreation & Sports$2,200Arts & Culture$1,000

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 budgetAMBASSADOR HIGH SCHOOL: $248,810 over 5y, 10% of budgetVISTAMAR SCHOOL: $230,985 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMINDS MATTER NATIONAL INC: $197,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $137,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF LOS ANGELES INC: $64,600 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF BAY AREA INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF CHICAGO INC: $32,500 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetFULFILLMENT FUND: $29,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetREADY TO SUCCEED: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF PORTLAND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF SEATTLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF CLEVELAND OHIO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF DETROIT INC: $6,250 over 2y, 27% of budgetHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF SO CAL SCHOLARSHIP FND 14-090259: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF WASHINGTON DC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetLegacy Global Programs: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF NYC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELTA DELTA DELTA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTurkish Womens Initiative: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

Perlman Family Founda…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Yelp FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…American Express Foun…Charities Aid Foundat…California Community …Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Chicago Community…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…
Perlman Family FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Reach Higher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Reach Higher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%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
    3get no government money at all
    2report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Reach Higher Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Reach Higher 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 34 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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