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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 FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$880kYouth Development$695kEmployment$345kArts & Culture$250kHealth$25k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $549,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $18,281,339 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $17,731,839 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $400k
$45,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EDWELL$200,000
NATIONAL TEACHER RESIDENCY$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER$45,000
JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC$44,500
COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION$30,000
COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION$30,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HANDY INC: $100k → 13%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

MA
IN
CA
CO
AZ
TN
TX
FL
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.
03Its 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
Careerwise Colorado

Careerwise's mission is to forge pathways to meaningful careers through bold advocacy, innovative apprenticeships, and industry led partnerships, creating a dynamic talent ecosystem that connects ambition to opportunity for empowered young…

Education
2
Business - Higher Education Forum

The business-higher education forum is a national network that connects corporate and college leaders to identify and build the talent solutions that address priority talent needs for employers and the american economy. corporate…

Education
3
The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation

The nashville chamber public benefit foundation supports the work of the nashville area chamber of commerce through efforts to improve the quality of education, encourage public and private efforts around education, and to facilitate the…

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4
Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce

The nashville area chamber of commerce facilitates community leadership to create economic prosperity.

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5
Heights Philadelphia

Heights is a new kind of organization, an economic mobility catalyst. we believe that creating pathways to educational and workforce success for low-income, black and brown, and first-generation-to-college students is the keystone of a…

Education
6
Center for the Future of Arizona

Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.

Community Improvement
7
College for Social Innovation Inc

To educate and inspire the next generation of problem solvers.

Employment
8
Denver Hybrid College

To support college students in innovative, affordable paths to in-demand careers and financial freedom.

Education
9
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering Inc

To provide leadership and support for the national effort to increase the representation of successful african american, native american and latinx women and men in engineering and technology, math, and science-based careers.

Civil Rights
10
Education Forward Arizona

To advocate for high-quality education and training that aligns with career and workforce opportunities to advance the quality of life for all arizonans.

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11
The Attainment Network

The attainment network builds networks that transform education-to-workforce systems, erase persistent and pervasive equity gaps, expand opportunities for learners, and meet the economic demands for a highly skilled and educated workforce.

Education
12
Denver Scholarship Foundation

Denver scholarship foundation (dsf) inspires and empowers denver public schools (dps) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources for…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ambition Angels; the most unlike its peers is Nashville Teacher Residency. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 15 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
3/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMBITION ANGELS: $694,579 · EducationAMBITION ANGELSNashville Teacher Residency: $200,000 · EducationNashville Teacher ResidencyEdwell Inc: $200,000 · EducationEdwell IncDALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationDALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCTHE CRAFT EDUCATION SYSTEM: $250,000 · OtherTHE CRAFT EDUCATION SYSTEMSTATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · OtherSTATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFI…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYSTATE OF INDIANA: $100,000 · OtherSTATE OF INDIANAGATEWAY EDUCATION PARTNERS LLC: $75,000 · OtherGATEWAY EDUCATION PARTNERS LLCCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · OtherCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION …REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $45,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOCLIMB HIRE INC: $100,000 · EmploymentJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC: $44,500 · EmploymentHELPING ADVANCE AND NURTURE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH INC (HANDY INC): $100,000 · Human ServicesFRENCH HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,214 · Health
Education$1,194,579Other$730,000Employment$144,500Human Services$100,000Health$25,214

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMBITION ANGELS: $694,579 over 2y, 55% of budgetNashville Teacher Residency: $200,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetSTATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCLIMB HIRE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetDALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHELPING ADVANCE AND NURTURE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH INC (HANDY INC): $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRENCH HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,214 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Helping Advance and Nurture the Development of Youth Inc (Handy Inc): 21% of income from government
  • Jobs for the Future Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 15 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 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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