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Reynolds-McKee Charitable Trust at a glance

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Reynolds-McKee Charitable Trust

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.

$500k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.2MHealth$810kReligion$205kPhilanthropy$175kCrime & Legal$125kRecreation & Sports$45kEmployment$25kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATOIN$500,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NANTUCKET LIGHTHOUSE SCHOOL: $10k → 6%URSELINE ACADEMY: $50k → 7%MIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $50k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CNP: $250k → 16%GLAUCOMA RESEARCH: $10k → 10%HONOR FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%US SKI TEAM JEFF SHIFFRIN FUND: $25k → 5%WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS: $20k → 9%KELLY BRUSH FOUNDATION: $125k → 10%NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL: $10k → 6%ST MARGARET MARY PARISH: $100k → 7%MIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $50k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CNP: $250k → 16%ST MARGARET MARY PARISH: $55k → 7%WILY NETWORK: $25k → 16%ST MARGARET MARY PARISH: $50k → 7%WILY NETWORK: $10k → 16%MEDFIELD ANIMAL SHELTER: $5k → 7%VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM: $125k → 16%COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL OF BOSTON: $125k → 16%COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL OF BOSTON: $100k → 16%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $125k → 16%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF BOSTON: $125k → 16%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF BOSTON: $50k → 16%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $50k → 16%CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATOIN: $500k → 16%CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $125k → 16%CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $100k → 16%CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $100k → 16%HORIZONS: $25k → 16%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 8 repeat orgs$930k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$1.7M
$430k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+26%

Still filing today

63%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’25
EducationRecreation & SportsEmploymentPhilanthropyHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • CS
    CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $325k · revenue +5%
  • WF
    WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $175k · revenue +300%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $175k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • VI
    VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM
    one grant, 2021 · $125k
  • TK
    THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue +26%
  • UA
    URSELINE ACADEMY
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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.

1
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

Whitehead institute forges new frontiers in science, uncovering insights today that unlock the potential of tomorrow. our advances in genetics and genomics are now enabling us to tackle the complexities of life with unprecedented depth and…

Health
4
The Waldorf School Inc

The waldorf school of lexington nurtures each child's curiosity, ingenuity, and love of learning so that they can meet the future with wonder, confidence, and resilience.

Education
5
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
Nichols College

Nichols college strives to develop tomorrow's leaders through a dynamic, career-focused business education. the college transforms students into successful graduates who respond to challenges, are eager for responsibility, and assume…

Education
8
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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9
Foxcroft School

Foxcroft's mission is to help every girl explore her unique voice and to develop the skills, confidence, and courage to share it with the world with emphasis on Our Values of Respect, Integrity, Kindness, Service.

Education
10
West Nottingham Academy

To inspire and educate students to become socially aware leaders and innovators who positively impact their communities around the world

Education
11
Meadowbrook School of Weston Incorporated

Meadowbrook knows, loves, and challenges every child. together, as a diverse community with high academic, ethical and social standards, we nurture character, promote confidence, inspire creativity and foster critical thinking skills as we…

Education
12
The Williston Northampton School

The williston northampton school inspires students to live with purpose, passion and integrity. the school's philosophy comprises the tenents of respect for self and others, responsibility and trust, and honesty and integrity. the school's…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Schools Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATOIN: $500,000 · OtherCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATOINCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CNP: $500,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CNPCOMMONWEALTH SCHOOL OF BOSTON: $225,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH SCHOOL OF BOSTONST MARGARET MARY PARISH: $205,000 · OtherST MARGARET MARY PARISHVIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM: $125,000 · OtherVIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM+5 more: $120,000 · Other+5 moreCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $325,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FO…MIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $100,000 · EducationMIDDLESEX SCHOOLTHE WILY NETWORK: $35,000 · EducationTHE WILY NETWORK+1 more: $10,000 · EducationWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $175,000 · PhilanthropyDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $175,000 · HealthTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · Recreation & SportsWoodstock Ski Runners: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EmploymentMEDFIELD ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $5,000 · Animals
Other$1,675,000Education$470,000Philanthropy$175,000Health$175,000Recreation & Sports$145,000Employment$25,000Animals$5,000

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 budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $325,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $175,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILY NETWORK: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWoodstock Ski Runners: $20,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetNANTUCKET LIGHTHOUSE SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEDFIELD ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE WILY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds THE HONOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Woodstock Ski Runners ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET LIGHTHOUSE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDFIELD ANIMAL SHELTER 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 Reynolds-McKee Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Reynolds-McKee Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
1report 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, 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.

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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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