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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
6
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

96% of Reed Family Giving’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, 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.

01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$37MHealth$1.4MEnvironment$521kHousing & Shelter$150kArts & Culture$52kEducation$50kYouth Development$50kHuman Services$20kOther$0
02FY2018 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k6 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $92k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $617k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$30,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE TAYLOR FAMILY FOUNDATION$250,000
YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$236,600
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$150,000
UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$80,000
HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$50,000
TEEN ESTEEM$50,000
THERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA$50,000
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE$36,200
NAMI NATIONAL ALLICANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS$30,000
DO IT FOR THE LOVE$15,750
LIVERMORE PLEASANTON FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE STANFORD$9,550
COOLEFFECT$8,000
CARBONFUNDORG FOUNDATION$7,680
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TEEN ESTEEM: $50k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
3
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
4
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
5
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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6
Future 500

See attached statementprimary missionfuture 500 builds trust between corporations, advocates, investors, and philanthropists to advance business as a force for good. we are experts in stakeholder engagement with over 25 years of experience…

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7
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
8
Climate Imperative Foundation

Climate imperative foundation's mission is to employ science and economics to cut global carbon emissions to secure a better future for all.

Environment
9
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
10
California Healthcare Foundation

Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…

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11
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. 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

14 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. 14 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $37,175,711 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+2 more — $250,200 · PhilanthropyTHE OCEAN AGENCY — $500,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $150,000 · OtherUCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $80,000 · OtherNAMI NATIONAL ALLICANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS — $30,000 · Other+5 more — $25,750 · OtherTHE TAYLOR FAMILY FOUNDATION — $750,000 · Recreation & SportsCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN — $500,000 · HealthTHERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA — $50,000 · Health+1 more — $200 · HealthSundance Institute — $36,200 · Arts & CultureDO IT FOR THE LOVE — $15,750 · Arts & CultureTeen Esteem — $50,000 · Human ServicesHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationCool Effect Inc — $8,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENT NEXT INC — $7,680 · Environment
Philanthropy$37,425,911Other$785,750Recreation & Sports$750,000Health$550,200Arts & Culture$51,950Human Services$50,000Education$50,000Environment$15,680

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $37,175,711 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TAYLOR FAMILY FOUNDATION — $750,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN — $500,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $240,200 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA — $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTeen Esteem — $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Reed Family Giving 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s 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 · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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