Colorado · Private foundation
Reel Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $181k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 61
- Grants FY2024
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $7,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 49
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 16
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Reel Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 59 | $177k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $169k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $195k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $185k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $178k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 44 | $163k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Americans Center for Financial Education | $33,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Project Angel Heart | $33,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Denver Art Museum | $31,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Earthlinks Inc | $29,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $26,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $24,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc | $24,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Colorado Foundation | $23,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Paws and Stripes Inc | $23,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Semper Fi & America's Fund | $23,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($409k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Reel Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Mile High United Way Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Denver Children's Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Reel Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Reel Family Foundation Inc give?
- Reel Family Foundation Inc reported 61 grants totaling $181,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 49 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Reel Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Animals (14%), Education (13%).
- Who are Reel Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Young Americans Center for Financial Education ($34k), Project Angel Heart ($33k), Denver Art Museum ($32k).
- Does Reel Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Reel Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Reel Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Schlessman Foundation Inc.
- Where is Reel Family Foundation Inc based?
- Reel Family Foundation Inc is based in CO.
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