How much did REESE FOUNDATION grant in FY2018?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of REESE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2018 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

Under $10k4 grants · $25k
$10k–50k6 grants · $70k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
SHOAL CREEK CONSERVANCY$15,000
THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION$15,000
AUSTIN TRAIL FOUNDATION$10,000
COLORADO RIVER ALLIANCE$10,000
ECORISE YOUTH INNOVATIONS$10,000
AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION$10,000
TRINITY EDWARDS SPRINGS PROTECTION ASSOCIATION$7,500
CREATIVE ACTION AUSTIN$7,500
TODOS JUNTOS LEARNING CENTER$5,000
AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE$5,000

02The need

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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$132k · 4 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +117% since the first grant, against +106% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$132k

$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+117%

+106%

Still filing today

50%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentRecreation & SportsEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

UH
UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL
2× · 2017–2018 · $69k
TE
TRINITY EDWARDS SPRINGS PROTECTION ASSOCIATION
2× · 2017–2018 · $28k · revenue +117%
CR
COLORADO RIVER ALLIANCE
2× · 2017–2018 · $25k

Funded once

WV
WIMBERLEY VALLEY WATERSHED ASSOCIATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +584%
WP
WESTCAVE PRESERVE
one grant, 2017 · $20k
GIRLSTART
one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +1%

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.

Travis County Parks Foundation

To create a powerful community resource that increases awareness, engagement and community support for Travis County parks.

Public Benefit

Hill Country Alliance

The mission of the Hill Country Alliance is to bring together a diverse coalition of partners to preserve the open spaces, starry night skies, clean and abundant waters, and unique character of the Texas Hill Country.

Environment

Waterloo Greenway Conservancy

Waterloo greenway conservancy creates and maintains an extraordinary urban park system and a restored waller creek, in partnership with the city of austin, for the benefit of all. the conservancy renews the natural environment, promotes…

Community Improvement

Guadalupe River Park Conservancy

Guadalupe River Park Conservancy promotes the development and active use of the Guadalupe River Park and Gardens through education, advocacy, and stewardship.

Environment

Ecology Action of Texas Inc

Ecology Action's mission is to protect, reclaim, and connect communities to neglected or damaged remnants of the urban wilderness. We work to accelerate ecosystem recovery through biodiversity enhancement, water quality improvements,…

Environment

Trinity Park Conservancy

Fulfilling the promise of the Trinity River as the natural gathering place for Dallas.

Community Improvement

Solar Austin

Solar Austin's mission is to accelerate the transition to clean, renewable energy in Central Texas by expanding access to the benefits of solar energy to everyone, thus to mitigate climate change, create a healthy community, and support a…

Environment

Bexar Land Trust Inc dba

Protect undeveloped land and urban green spaces. Educate the public about the environment.

Environment

Barton Springs Conservancy

Barton Springs Conservancy honors, preserves, and enhances the experience of Barton Springs for everyone through education and park improvements.

Recreation & Sports

Save Our Springs Alliance Inc

Our mission is to educate and advocate on behalf of the Edwards Aquifer and the natural heritage of the Hill Country region and its watersheds with special emphasis on Barton Springs.

Environment

Hermann Park Conservancy

The Conservancy enhances and maintains Hermann Park (one of Houston's most historic and popular green spaces), manages impressive renovations of the Park, and is responsible for extensive reforestation efforts and maintenance initiatives…

Environment

Good Work Austin

Good Work Austin's mission is to foster healthy careers in the local food and beverage industry through professional development and advocacy for more equitable practices.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin Ymbl Sunshine Camp and the most unlike its peers is Todos Juntos Learning Center. 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, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/12

Grantees still filing

11/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$156,500Environment$62,500Recreation & Sports$35,000Education$25,000Arts & Culture$10,000Philanthropy$450

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.

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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 organisation REESE 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: TRINITY EDWARDS SPRINGS PROTECTION ASSOCIATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 473645996 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on TRINITY EDWARDS SPRINGS PROTECTION ASSOCIATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Reese Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Reese Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

REESE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Reese Foundation?

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REESE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Reese Foundation?

More from the funding graph