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Reeds & Arnold Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$59k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Religion$41kPhilanthropy$40kEnvironment$22kRecreation & Sports$7kAnimals$7kHealth$4kEducation$2kScience & Tech$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIDWAY USA FOUNDATION$15,000
DYNAMIC CATHOLIC - HOLY MOMENTS$10,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CHILDRENS RESEARCH INSTITUTES$2,000
CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH$2,000
AUGUSTINE INSTITUTE$2,000
TC MUSKIES INC$1,500
ST FRANCIS OF THE LAKE CATHOLIC SCHOOL$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,200
CENTRAL MN TEC$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
PARADISUS DEI$1,000
WALKER AREA PREGNANCY CENTER$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WALKER AREA PREGNANCY CENTER: $1k → 14%WALKER AREA PREGNANCY CENTER: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
PA
NJ
UT
CO
MO
KY
TN
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Reeds & Arnold Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 29% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 0%.

Reeds & Arnold Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$71k · 8 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$71k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+5%

Still filing today

38%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EnvironmentReligionEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +26%
  • Augustine Institute Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +44%
  • WA
    WALKER AREA PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • TD
    THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -3%
  • WA
    WALKER AREA COMMUNITY CENTER & YOUTH HOCKEY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

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Ducks Unlimited Inc Group Return

Ducks unlimited, inc. conserves, restores, and manages wetlands and associated habitats for north america's waterfowl. these habitats also benefit additional wildlife and people.

Environment
2
Catholic Answers Inc

Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…

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3
International Catholic Jurists Forum Inc

The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…

Religion
4
Women's Ordination Conference

Our mission is to advocate and pray for womens ordination as deacons, priests, and bishops into an inclusive and accountable roman catholic church.

Religion
5
Wetlands America Trust Inc

Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…

Environment
6
Word On Fire Catholic Ministries

Word on fire catholic ministries is a global media apostolate that supports the work of bishop robert barron and reaches millons of individuals to draw them back to or into the catholic faith.

Religion
7
Word Among Us Inc

The word among us helps over 2 million digitally and over 700,000 readers in print to be changed through a life-changing encounter with jesus christ in daily prayer and scripture.

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8
University of Dayton

The university of dayton is a top-tier independent, catholic research educational institution founded in 1850. the primary exempt purpose is providing post secondary education through undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and continuing…

Education
9
The Wildlife Society

The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Animals
10
The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…

Religion
11
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
12
Spitzer-Magis Center Fka Magis Institute

Magis Center exists to turn the rising tide of unbelief in our culture through contemporary, rational, and science-based evidence. We seek to answer the conflict of science and faith with scientific research and communicate the…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ducks Unlimited Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Dynamic Catholic Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DYNAMIC CATHOLIC - HOLY MOMENTS: $20,000 · OtherDYNAMIC CATHOLIC - HOLY MOMENTSIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWALKER AREA COMMUNITY CENTER & YOUTH HOCKEY: $5,000 · OtherWALKER AREA COMMUNITY CENTER & YOUTH HOCKEYCROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC: $5,000 · OtherCROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INCIndividual grant recipient: $3,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · Other+17 more: $15,113 · Other+17 moreDucks Unlimited Inc: $20,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited IncCOASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · EnvironmentCOASTAL CONSERVATIO…MIDWAY USA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyMIDWAY USA FO…THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE: $10,000 · ReligionTHE DYNAM…PARADISUS DEI INC: $1,000 · ReligionPARADISUS…Augustine Institute Inc: $5,000 · EducationMULE DEER FOUNDATION: $3,000 · AnimalsWALKER AREA PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTE: $2,000 · Human ServicesSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $150 · Recreation & Sports
Other$67,213Environment$22,000Philanthropy$15,000Religion$11,000Education$5,000Animals$3,000Human Services$2,000Recreation & Sports$150

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWAY USA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAugustine Institute Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMULE DEER FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALKER AREA PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPARADISUS DEI INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
  • Who funds MIDWAY USA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Augustine Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds MULE DEER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds WALKER AREA PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTE ↗
  • Who funds PARADISUS DEI INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Reeds & Arnold Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Reeds & Arnold Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Reeds & Arnold Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Reeds & Arnold Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 33 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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