How much did Ruth and Joseph C Reed Foundation for grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of Ruth and Joseph C Reed Foundation for’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.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

creativity

2021

san diego

2022

art creativitysan diegocreativity healing

2023

museumheart

2024

museum

2025

applicationfiresbabysantamuseum

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $28k
$10k–50k28 grants · $408k
$50k–250k1 grant · $90k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$10M

Total assets

Largest grants

American Museum of Ceramic Art$90,000
Oaks Christian School$30,500
VFW Bank of Brothers$30,400
Focus on the Masters$20,000
Art Creativity for Healing$20,000
Claremont Museum of Art$20,000
Oxnard Perforning Arts$15,000
Western La County Council Scouting$15,000
Inner City Arts$15,000
Art Trek$15,000
Museum of Neon Art$15,000
Heart of Los Angeles HOLA$15,000
Ryman Arts$15,000
Art Reach San Diego$15,000
Saint Rita's School$15,000

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.3M · 35 repeat orgs$299k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +96% since the first grant, against +78% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%

+78%

Still filing today

37%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther

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

AM
American Museum of Ceramic Art
3× · 2023–2025 · $180k · revenue +181%
CM
Claremont Museum of Art
4× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue +145%
FO
Focus on the Masters
4× · 2022–2025 · $59k · revenue +47%

Funded once

CO
City of La Verne
one grant, 2024 · $17k
CC
Craft Contemporay
one grant, 2023 · $15k
MO
Museum of Latin American Artgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +58%

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.

Contemporary Art Group

To educate the public about important art and improving the public's access to it through curated programming.

Arts & Culture

Occidental Center for the Arts

Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts. Our mission is to enrich our community by providing diverse cultural experiences that inspire educate and entertain with…

Arts & Culture

The Center for Contemporary Art

A contemporary cultural center providing arts education, exhibitions and community outreach.

Arts & Culture

Contemporary Arts Center

To provide public access to contemporary art. The Contemporary Arts Center is a multi-disciplinary arts center that is dedicated to the presentation, production, and promotion of the arts of our time.

Arts & Culture

Center for Contemporary Arts

The mission is to provide enriching and educational experiences for the communities of the region through the promotion and support of artists.

Arts & Culture

Californians for the Arts

Advancing and building public awareness of the value and impact of arts, culture and creativity across California.

Arts & Culture

The Contemporary Arts Center

The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.

Arts & Culture

Lux Art Institute

Lux Art Institute believes that visual art educates, inspires, and transforms its viewers.

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Triton Museum of Art

The Triton Museum of Art is a vital community resource that provides accessible exhibition and education programs, promoting a broad range of contemporary California art.

Arts & Culture

D'art Center

The d'art center connects the community and artists to create an appreciation for the visual arts by providing a unique opportunity to watch, create, learn, collect and enjoy works from diverse artists in an interactive environment.

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Community Arts & Empowerment

To make art for, by and with the public.

Arts & Culture

Oakwood Arts Inc

Supporting creative opportunities for all.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inner-City Arts and the most unlike its peers is Forever Found. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/30

the rest of the field

13%

7,038/53,273

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.

05the grantee network

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

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)

28/28

Grantees still filing

24/28

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$925,194Arts & Culture$552,500Education$40,500Food & Nutrition$21,800Human Services$5,000Housing & Shelter$4,875Youth Development$3,101

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.

California Community FoundationCA26.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Perenchio Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Pasadena Art Alliance · The J Paul Getty Trust · Ventura County Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Ruth and Joseph C Reed Foundation for 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

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: Vita Art Center.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 874540920 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 Vita Art Center, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 22% 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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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.

Ruth and Joseph C Reed Foundation for

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ruth and Joseph C Reed Foundation for?

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Ruth and Joseph C Reed Foundation for

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ruth and Joseph C Reed Foundation for?

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