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Brent Reese Family 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.

$216k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$74k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232025.

Health$153kHuman Services$111kArts & Culture$50kEducation$16kHousing & Shelter$9kEnvironment$8kInternational$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $94k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $74k
$6,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRESH START$74,024
SOUTHWEST BEHAVIORAL & HEALTH$27,841
ONE STAGE FAMILY THEATRE$21,000
AWAKENING RECOVERY INC$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
IMAGINATION LIBRARY$10,000
DIGDEEP$10,000
THERE IS NO HERO IN HEROIN$7,800
HOGAR CASA DE PAN$6,347
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS PRESCOTT$6,000
HIGHLAND CENTER$6,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION$4,800
WATER 4 LIFE$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 13%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $4k → 13%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $250 → 11%PRESCOTT MEALS ON WHEELS: $2k → 14%PRESCOTT MEALS ON WHEELS: $200 → 14%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.

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.

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$259k · 11 repeat orgs$139k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$259k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

45%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationEnvironmentInternationalArts & CultureOther

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

  • FS
    FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +1%
  • LV
    LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $9k · revenue +17%
  • LC
    LIONS CAMP TATIYEE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +307%

Funded once

  • VR
    VERHELST RECOVERY HOUSE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • TL
    Teen Lifeline Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +5%
  • WM
    WORD MADE FLESH INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%

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
Freedom Revived

Freedom Revived is here to bring a proactive approach to serving those who serve us. We provide support and encouragement through a variety of services that revitalize mind, body, and spirit to our Frontline.

Human Services
2
Phoenix Gospel Mission

Provide christ-centered, life-transforming solutions to persons facing hunger, homelessness, addiction, and trauma. the phoenix rescue mission is a place of hope, healing, and new beginnings for men, women, and children in our community.

Religion
3
City Rescue Mission Inc

Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.

Human Services
4
Hopeworks

To provide a place where homeless people could come and gain protection from the elements and provide for many other basic needs, such as meals, showers, clothing and health care. Also, to provide various services to homeless people such…

5
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
6
City Help Inc of Phoenix

Our mission is to reach in and mine the incredible potential we believe lies within the lives of at-risk youth, the homeless, and needy families of our community by restoring hope and allowing them to dream again.

Human Services
7
House of Refuge Sunnyslope Inc

Our mission is to love, house, and equip men, women and children. coming from chronic unemployment, recovery, or an endless cycle of homelessness, our residents experience a clean, safe home where transforming their life can begin.…

Housing & Shelter
8
La Paloma Family Services Inc

We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.

9
Freedom Summit Adventures Inc

We are a nonprofit that supports survivors of human trafficking through holistic care, and long-term mentorship.

Environment
10
Womens Recovery ServicesA Unique Place

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction for women in a safe residential setting, allowing them and their young children to live together while learning the life skills necessary to become strong, responsible contributors in their…

11
Homeless Outreach Providing Encouragement

The mission of the organization is to provide life-sustaining services and programsfocusing on dignity, empowerment and self-sufficiency. the organization provides the onlyyear-round overnight service center for the homeless community in…

Human Services
12
The Midnight Mission

The midnight mission seeks to offer a bridge to self sufficiency for people experiencing homelessness through interim shelter, advocacy, education, training and job placement, make available the necessities of life, offer the 12-step…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Awakening Recovery Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fresh Start Women's Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 29 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTHWEST BEHAVIORAL & HEALTH — $110,436 · OtherSOUTHWEST BEHAVIORAL & HEALTHFRESH START — $74,024 · OtherFRESH STARTONE STAGE FAMILY THEATRE — $49,494 · OtherONE STAGE FAMILY THEATREIndividual grant recipient — $15,486 · OtherIMAGINATION LIBRARY — $15,000 · OtherTHERE IS NO HERO IN HEROIN — $13,800 · Other+15 more — $54,822 · Other+15 moreFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $20,427 · Human ServicesLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION — $8,800 · Human ServicesPRESCOTT MEALS ON WHEELS — $2,000 · Human ServicesAWAKENING RECOVERY INC — $18,000 · HealthHIGHLANDS CENTER FOR NATURAL HISTORY — $6,000 · EnvironmentTeen Lifeline Inc — $4,400 · Public Safety & DisasterWORD MADE FLESH INC — $3,000 · ReligionLIONS CAMP TATIYEE INC — $2,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$333,062Human Services$31,227Health$18,000Environment$6,000Public Safety & Disaster$4,400Religion$3,000Recreation & Sports$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $20,427 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAWAKENING RECOVERY INC — $18,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION — $8,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLANDS CENTER FOR NATURAL HISTORY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTeen Lifeline Inc — $4,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORD MADE FLESH INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIONS CAMP TATIYEE INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPRESCOTT MEALS ON WHEELS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROWNSTONE EXPERIENCE FOUNDATIO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AWAKENING RECOVERY INC
  • Who funds DIG DEEP
  • Who funds LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION
  • Who funds HIGHLANDS CENTER FOR NATURAL HISTORY
  • Who funds Teen Lifeline Inc
  • Who funds WORD MADE FLESH INC
  • Who funds LIONS CAMP TATIYEE INC
  • Who funds EMPOWERS AFRICA INC
  • Who funds PRESCOTT MEALS ON WHEELS
  • Who funds CAROUSEL OF HAPPINESS INC
  • Who funds THE BROWNSTONE EXPERIENCE FOUNDATIO

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Brent Reese Family 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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