· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $71k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $100,000 |
| LIFELINE RECOVERY CENTER | $100,000 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION-MCHS SCHOLARSHIPS | $21,250 |
| HOPE CLINIC | $10,000 |
| JUSTICE & MERCY INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| THE FAMILY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY NEED LINE | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 50% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LFLUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +20%
- WAWOMEN AWARE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +71%
- JAJUSTICE AND MERCY INTERNATIONAL3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- MCMARSHALL COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $100k
- MCMARSHALL COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +60% · 42% of their budget
- LFLOURDES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 JUSTICE AND MERCY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Reed Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Reed Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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