· Private foundation
Reardon Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $128k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $144k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENISON UNIVERSITY | $94,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE CLINIC | $50,000 |
| HOOD COLLEGE | $35,000 |
| POLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $22,500 |
| LEE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| VANDERBILT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| ILLINOIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $6,000 |
| THE BABY FOLD | $6,000 |
| VANDERBILT PRESBY CHURCH ENDOWMENT | $5,211 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| PONTIAC TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| MEALS OF HOPE BONITA SPRINGS | $3,500 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH CARE CLINIC9× · 2017–2025 · $706k · revenue +215%
- DUDENISON UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $320k · revenue +39%
- HCHOOD COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $276k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- FCFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $75k
- DHDartmouth-Hitchcock Healthone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -10%
- FOFRIENDS OF BN LACROSSEone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Wesleyan University and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 62 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 30% 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 57 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 COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOOD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds POLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds THE BABY FOLD ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEQUIM CITY BAND ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CAFE OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds The United Way of Lee County Inc ↗
- Who funds BONITA BAY VETERANS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARKLANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
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: The Growmark Foundation · Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc · Parker Kemp Foundation · Snyder Family Foundation Nfp · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Reardon Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
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.