Wisconsin · Private foundation
Reed Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 239
- Grants FY2025
- 167
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 124 to 167
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 29
- Total assets, FY2025
- $28M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Reed Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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 | 176 | $3.6M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 167 | $3.2M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 165 | $3.1M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 159 | $3.0M | 12% |
| FY2021 | 140 | $2.3M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 130 | $1.3M | 12% |
| FY2018 | 124 | $747k | 6% |
| FY2017 | 128 | $602k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shedd Aquarium Society | $7,227,600 | 8 | 2% |
| The John G Shedd Institute for the Arts | $1,997,890 | 8 | 9% |
| Eugene Ballet Company | $709,500 | 8 | 6% |
| Columbia Land Conservancy Inc | $679,750 | 8 | 4% |
| St Lawrence University | $641,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Hotchkiss School | $534,681 | 8 | 0% |
| Gallatin Valley Land Trust | $503,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Lake Forest College | $470,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Friends of Hendricks Park | $470,030 | 8 | 46% |
| New Jersey Conservation Foundation | $257,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 202 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($773k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Reed Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 185 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: Chambers Family Foundation · The Taos Community Foundation Inc · The Woodard Family Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · United Way of Lane County · The Ford Family Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Giustina Foundation · The Haugland Family Foundation Fka Rosaria P Haugland Foundation · Tykeson Family Charitable Trust · Lane Community Health Council · Robert T Keeler Foundation
How this is measured
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About Reed Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Reed Family Foundation Inc give?
- Reed Family Foundation Inc reported 239 grants totaling $3,684,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 124 and 167 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Reed Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (40%), Arts & Culture (19%), Education (15%).
- Who are Reed Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Shedd Aquarium Society ($7.2M), The John G Shedd Institute for the Arts ($2.0M), Eugene Ballet Company ($710k).
- Does Reed Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Reed Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Reed Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chambers Family Foundation, The Taos Community Foundation Inc, The Woodard Family Foundation.
- Where is Reed Family Foundation Inc based?
- Reed Family Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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