· Private foundation
Reed 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 $10k14 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $71k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFELINE RECOVERY CENTER | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $100,000 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION-MCHS SCHOLARSHIPS | $21,250 |
| JUSTICE & MERCY INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| THE FAMILY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY NEED LINE | $10,000 |
| HOPE CLINIC | $10,000 |
| LIONS CLUB TELETHON | $5,000 |
| KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION | $5,000 |
| KENTUCKY TECHNOLOGY STUDENT ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD | $4,000 |
| YOUTH SERVICES FUND OF MARSHALL COUNTY ROTARY CLUB | $2,500 |
| GILBERTSVILLE FIRE PROTECTION DIST | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 50% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- LFLUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +20%
- WAWOMEN AWARE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +71%
MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2023 · $45k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- MCMARSHALL COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $100k
- LFLOURDES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
- MCMARSHALL COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +60% · 42% of their budget
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.
To provide medical care to the people in marshall and surrounding counties.
To provide foster and adoptive children a safe haven, developmental services, and therapeutic interventions necessary to achieve permanency.
A one week camp is provided for the mentally handicapped in Western Kentucky. It usually is held at the LSDA Forest Services Camp at Brandon Springs, KY. Approximately 105 adults attend the week long activities. We only had 99 campers this…
Free health care for the working poor
The mission of Baptist Health is to exemplify our Christian heritage of providing quality healthcare services by enhancing the physical & emotional health of the people & communities we serve, guided by integrity, respect, stewardship,…
The gentry house, inc. is an emergency transitional homeless shelter to help families with children in the region of murray and calloway county, ky. residents are given rent and utility assistance.
Our mission is to care for people and improve the quality of life in the communities we serve.
The mission proclaims the Gospel of Jesus Christ in India through preaching teaching and providing assistance to the poor.
McCreary Christian Center Christian Outreach and Food Pantry Saint Joseph Inn Over see Inn that is used to house Volunteers from out of town
Providing free lunches to the hungry, sheltering the homeless during inclement weather, and case management for those seeking financial assistance. services are offered to those in the paducah, kentucky area.
Provide animal sanctuary in ky
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Luther F Carson Four Rivers Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kentucky Sheriffs' Boys & Girls Ranch Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 38 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 Baptist Health Foundation Paducah Inc ↗
- Who funds LUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Heartland Ministries ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AWARE INC ↗
- Who funds MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE AND MERCY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES FUND OF THE MARSHALL COUNTY ROTARY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY SHERIFFS' BOYS & GIRLS RANCH TRUST ↗
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: Community Foundation of West Kyinc · Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation · Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 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.
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.