· Private foundation
Richard D Reis Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 13 DONATIONS OF 600 OR LESS TO EACH ORGANIZATION | $5,100 |
| UNIV OF KENTUCKY ENGLISH DEPT | $5,000 |
| XAVIER UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN | $2,500 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| BEECH ACRES | $2,000 |
| CORRALL | $2,000 |
| FIRST TEE OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $2,000 |
| POLITE TUMOR | $2,000 |
| DOHN SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,500 |
| INDIAN HILL FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 5 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- SCSavannah College of Art and DesignInc5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +62%
Northwestern University5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +33%
Vanderbilt University5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- CCCINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +29%
- 2D27 DONATIONS OF 600 OR LESS TO EACH ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2020 · $6k
- TETHUNDERDOME EVENT LLCone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To promote professional excellence, foster justice, serve our members and educate the public.
To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Underdogs. 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 52 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 54 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
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 CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Savannah College of Art and DesignInc ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds POLITE TUMOR INC ↗
- Who funds Emanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy ↗
- Who funds BEECH ACRES ↗
- Who funds National Court Reporters Foundation ↗
- Who funds INDIAN HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN TOP INC ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
- Who funds WYOMING UNTRAPPED INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WESTERN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds The Mercantile Library ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · The Alpaugh Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Williams Foundation · Edelweiss Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund
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 Richard D Reis 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.
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.