· Public charity
Rei Cooperative Action Fund
To create a more equitable outdoors by bringing together the collective strength of our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k232 grants · $3.1M
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+2 grants · $700k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| TAKING CARE OF TEXAS DBA TEXAN BY NATURE | $300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $150,000 |
| CATALYST SPORTS | $100,000 |
| RISING ROUTES | $100,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION | $100,000 |
| COALITIONS & COLLABORATIVES | $100,000 |
| HBCUS OUTSIDE | $75,000 |
| BOYZ N THE WOOD | $75,000 |
| YELLOW BIRD LIFE WAYS | $50,000 |
| OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LEAVE NO TRACE | $50,000 |
| CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT | $50,000 |
| MOUNTAINS TO SOUND GREENWAY TRUST | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $695k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 238 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC2× · 2022–2023 · $674k · revenue +134%- AAAdaptive Adventures3× · 2021–2023 · $391k · revenue +25%
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES3× · 2021–2023 · $365k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +191%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONone grant, 2023 · $160k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKone grant, 2023 · $160k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
We teach the health benefits of nature, promote outdoor recreation, and steward the places where we play.
Nature for all builds a diverse base of support to ensure that everyone in the losangeles area has equitable access to the wide range of benefits which natureprovides. we're committed to building support to protect, create access to…
Our mission is to unite the voices of outdoor enthusiasts to protect the humanpowered outdoor recreation experience and conserve Americas public lands.
Over the next five years, portland trails will work to transform greater portland into a regional hub of connectivity and sustainability. by facilitating the expansion and enhancement of our trail network, we will foster inclusive…
The Portland Parks Conservancy's mission is to enhance Portland's parks and recreational programs by raising philantropic capital and engaging the community.
Engage.Protect.Enhance.Weareonamissiontobringpeople,water,andnaturetogetherwhilepursuingasustainablerevitalization of the Los Angeles River corridor.
Bikepacking Roots supports and advances bikepacking the growth of a diverse bikepacking community and access to and the conservation of the landscapes and public lands through which we ride. We lower the barriers to bikepacking through…
Our mission is to uplift the well-being of the community through experiential nature-based programs. By providing hands-on environmental education to urban youth and adults, we empower leaders and cultivate a connection to the natural…
The redwood trails alliance is an advocate for our diverse community of trail users. we teach responsible trail stewardship and offer volunteer trail work opportunities along with planning and construction services for trails for all to…
The Boulder Mountainbike Alliance exists to serve as a positive voice for mountain biking in the greater Boulder County, Colorado area by improving the trail experience for all users through social rides and events, advocacy, and trail…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groundwork Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is One Family Memphis. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
285 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 285 of the 310 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds Adaptive Adventures ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds THE VENTURE OUT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRLS RUN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Taking Care of Texas ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR AFRO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILD DIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds EAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Washington Area Bicyclist Association ↗
- Who funds Catalyst Sports Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY ↗
- Who funds CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER ↗
- Who funds HBCUS OUTSIDE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLTREK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER PASSAGE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Outward Bound Adventures ↗
- Who funds PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Blue Bird LifeWays ↗
- Who funds Park RX America ↗
- Who funds OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Trauma Foundation ↗
- Who funds NUESTRA TIERRA CONSERVATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BIG MARSH ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · National Recreation Foundation Incorporated · Clif Family Foundation · National Park Foundation · Move United · Justice Outside · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Christopher Reeve Foundation · Outride fka The Specialized Foundation · National Forest 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 Rei Cooperative Action Fund 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.
- Northwest Youth Corps — 100% of income from government
- Friends of Trees — 100% of income from government
- Elso Inc — 100% of income from government
- New Jersey Tree Foundation — 100% of income from government
- All Out Adventures Inc — 47% of income from government
- Urban Nature Partners Pdx — 34% of income from government
- Connecticut Forest & Park Association — 16% of income from government
- Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation — 16% of income from government
- Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports — 11% of income from government
- Living Classrooms Foundation — 7% of income from government
- Alachua Conservation Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
- Hunters of Color — 4% of income from government
- Groundwork Jacksonville Inc — 3% of income from government
- Bikes Not Bombs Inc — 2% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
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.