California · Public charity
Reach University
REACH UNIVERSITY advances the apprentice-based degree to promote an affordable job-embedded higher education pathway so that jobs can lead to degrees and not the other way around.
- $18M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $550k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 4
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Reach University funded were first-time grantees, receiving 84% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $550k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $327k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $1.1M | 100% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $225k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ambition Angels | $694,579 | 2 | 55% |
| The Craft Education System | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nashville Teacher Residency | $200,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Edwell Inc | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| State Higher Education Executive Officers Association | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Climb Hire Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Dallas College Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Arizona State University | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Helping Advance and Nurture the Development of Youth Inc (Handy Inc) | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| State of Indiana | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ambition Angels | $694,579 | 2 | 55% |
| The Craft Education System | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nashville Teacher Residency | $200,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Edwell Inc | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| State Higher Education Executive Officers Association | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Climb Hire Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Dallas College Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Arizona State University | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Helping Advance and Nurture the Development of Youth Inc (Handy Inc) | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| State of Indiana | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gateway Education Partners LLC | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Colorado Mountain College Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jobs for the Future Inc | $44,500 | 1 | n/a |
| French Hospital Medical Center Foundation | $25,214 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Reach University supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Reach University
- How much does Reach University give?
- Reach University reported 6 itemized grants totaling $549,500, out of $18,281,339 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 4 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Reach University fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Youth Development (32%), Employment (16%).
- Who are Reach University's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Ambition Angels ($695k), The Craft Education System ($250k), Nashville Teacher Residency ($200k).
- Does Reach University fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Reach University?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Reach University based?
- Reach University is based in CA.
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