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Reed Family Giving

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$990k
Granted FY2018
17
Grants FY2018
15
Organizations funded FY2018
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96% of Reed Family Giving’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Reed Family Giving named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $990k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

9
’18
3
’19

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2018
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$250,000
States reached, FY2018
6
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2019.

Philanthropy$37MHealth$1.4MEnvironment$521kHousing & Shelter$150kArts & Culture$52kEducation$50kYouth Development$50kHuman Services$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Reed Family Giving by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Taylor Family Foundation$750,000222%
Children's Hospital & Research Cntr Fndn$500,00011%
There With Care of the Bay Area$50,00014%
Hoffman Institute Foundation$50,00011%
Teen Esteem$50,000119%
Sundance Institute$36,20010%
Do It for the Love$15,75012%
Livermore Pleasanton Firefighters Foundation Corp$10,000113%
Cool Effect Inc$8,00010%
Environment Next Inc$7,68010%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$20010%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($781k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Reed Family Giving supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Taylor Family Foundation: $750,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetChildren's Hospital & Research Cntr Fndn: $500,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThere With Care of the Bay Area: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHoffman Institute Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTeen Esteem: $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSundance Institute: $36,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDo It for the Love: $15,750 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLivermore Pleasanton Firefighters Foundation Corp: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCool Effect Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEnvironment Next Inc: $7,680 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA15.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

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About Reed Family Giving

How much does Reed Family Giving give?
Reed Family Giving reported 17 grants totaling $989,980 in its FY2018 IRS filing.
What does Reed Family Giving fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2019, its largest causes are Philanthropy (94%), Health (4%), Environment (1%).
Who are Reed Family Giving's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2019: The Taylor Family Foundation ($750k), Children's Hospital & Research Cntr Fndn ($500k), There With Care of the Bay Area ($50k).
Does Reed Family Giving 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 Giving?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
Where is Reed Family Giving based?
Reed Family Giving is based in CA.

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 22 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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