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Reed Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$334k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$2.1MArts & Culture$219kYouth Development$59kHealth$47kReligion$27kInternational$24kRecreation & Sports$21kHuman Services$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $84k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GONZAGA UNIVERSITY$200,000
FRIENDS OF THE MODESTO LIBRARY$35,000
GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS$15,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$13,670
KIWANIS CLUB OF NORTH MODESTO FOUNDATION$10,000
GOLDEN EMPIRE COUNCIL BSA$10,000
CALAVERAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$6,610
CHURCH CENTRO CRISTIANO$6,000
STATE THEATRE OF MODESTO INC$6,000
MODESTO CHILDRENS MUSEUM$5,500
X HOPE$5,000
IONE PICNIC ASSOCIATION$5,000
OAKDALE SOCCER CLUB$3,000
JESSICA'S HOUSE$2,500
BRINGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY$2,500
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 (FY18–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM: $250 → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $250 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $125 → 14%COMMUNITY HOSPICE: $500 → 15%COMMUNITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $51 → 15%HOSPICE OF SAN JOANQUIN: $150 → 12%HOSPICE OF SAN JOAQUIN: $102 → 12%JESSICA'S HOUSE: $3k → 15%JESSICA'S HOUSE: $3k → 15%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
NY
IA
CA
UT
WV
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 16% of Reed Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 14% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Reed Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 33 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
68

Total granted

$2.4M
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+11%

Still filing today

73%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationInternationalOther

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

  • CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +42%
  • GC
    GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +0%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • IR
    INTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • PR
    PACIFIC REPORTOR THEATER
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • IR
    INTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +39%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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2
California State University Foundation

Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…

Philanthropy
3
Sutter Valley Medical Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: Caring for our patients first and our people always. VISION: To be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
4
California State University Alumni Association

Connect, engage and celebrate alumni, students and friends of sacramento state while building lifelong relationships that support the future of our university.

Education
5
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.

Education
6
California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association

California casa was founded in 1987. its mission is to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have both a voice and the services they need to thrive. we achieve this by strengthening and empowering…

Civil Rights
7
University of California San Francisco Foundation

Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…

Education
8
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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9
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
10
California Stormwater Quality Associatio

On behalf of california stormwater permittees, casqa advances sustainable stormwater management protective of california water resources. to advance sustainable stormwater management protective of california resources, casqa will: lead:…

Environment
11
Memorial Hospital Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

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12
Ucsf Health Medical Foundation

See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Modesto Children's Museum and the most unlike its peers is International Road Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%3%<5yr14%11%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr15%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr18%2%20–35yr13%2%35–55yr15%91%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/70
the rest of the field
12%
4,745/38,898

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.

05the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 110 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
43/66
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY — $2,025,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY+3 more — $12,025 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE MODESTO LIBRARY — $35,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF T…SHAKESPEARE-SAN FRANCISCO — $34,500 · OtherSHAKESPEARE-…GOLDEN EMPIRE COUNCIL — $22,600 · OtherGOLDEN EMPIR…INTERNATIONAL ROAD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $18,500 · OtherINTERNATIONA…BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA GOLDEN EMPIRE COUNCIL — $15,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS O…Individual grant recipient — $14,400 · OtherINTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherKiwanis Club of North Modesto Foundation — $10,000 · OtherPACIFIC REPORTOR THEATER — $10,000 · OtherTHE STATE THEATER — $9,300 · Other+71 more — $99,431 · Other+71 moreGALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $72,500 · Arts & CultureMODESTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $37,092 · Arts & CultureMODESTO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $21,500 · Arts & CultureSTATE THEATRE OF MODESTO INC — $13,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $11,575 · Arts & CultureAmerican Heart Association Inc — $39,865 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,830 · Health+7 more — $2,054 · HealthX Hope Inc — $20,750 · ReligionBEAVERS CHARITABLE TRUST — $9,000 · PhilanthropyCALAVERAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $6,610 · Philanthropy+1 more — $250 · PhilanthropyModesto Sister Cities International Inc — $5,000 · InternationalBoys & Girls Clubs of Stanislaus County — $5,000 · InternationalAsha for Education — $500 · International+1 more — $250 · International
Education$2,037,025Other$278,731Arts & Culture$156,167Health$44,749Religion$20,750Philanthropy$15,860International$10,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY — $2,025,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $72,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $39,865 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMODESTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $37,092 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MODESTO LIBRARY — $35,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSHAKESPEARE-SAN FRANCISCO — $34,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMODESTO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $21,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetX Hope Inc — $20,750 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ROAD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $18,500 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA GOLDEN EMPIRE COUNCIL — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTATE THEATRE OF MODESTO INC — $13,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT SACRAMENTO STATE — $11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKiwanis Club of North Modesto Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetBEAVERS CHARITABLE TRUST — $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCALAVERAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $6,610 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATION — $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHICO CM EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetModesto Band of Stanislaus County — $5,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetGREATER YOSEMITE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetModesto Sister Cities International Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Stanislaus County — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJESSICA'S HOUSE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRODEO BOOSTERS CLUB — $4,800 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetANRAK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBEYER HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INC — $3,350 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetClements Buckaroos — $3,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetOAKDALE SOCCER CLUB — $3,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,830 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMODESTO GOSPEL MISSION — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAYLOR FAMILY FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF CALIFORNIA INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOSPICE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAsha for Education — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEL DORADO HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDRENS CRISIS CENTER OF STANISLAUS COUNTY — $325 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of San Joaquin — $252 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAST HOPE — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTS OF HARVEST — $250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Valley Futbol Academy — $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARICOPA PANTRY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $250 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.

Stanislaus Community …Teichert FoundationThe Antone and Marie …Sacramento Region Com…The Bright Family Fou…Bob & Marie Gallo Fou…The Parallax Foundati…Stewart Family Founda…Julio R Gallo Foundat…The Cortopassi Family…Sutter Valley Hospita…North Valley Communit…
Stanislaus Community FoundationCA42× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stanislaus Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · The Antone and Marie Raymus Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · The Bright Family Foundation · Bob & Marie Gallo Foundation · The Parallax Foundation · Stewart Family Foundation · Julio R Gallo Foundation · The Cortopassi Family Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · North Valley Community 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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 110 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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