· Private foundation
Ruth and Joseph C Reed Foundation for The Arts
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of Ruth and Joseph C Reed Foundation for The Arts’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Museum of Ceramic Art | $90,000 |
| Oaks Christian School | $30,500 |
| VFW Bank of Brothers | $30,400 |
| Art Creativity for Healing | $20,000 |
| Claremont Museum of Art | $20,000 |
| Focus on the Masters | $20,000 |
| Oxnard Perforning Arts | $15,000 |
| Art Trek | $15,000 |
| Saint Rita's School | $15,000 |
| Museum of Neon Art | $15,000 |
| Ryman Arts | $15,000 |
| Oxy Arts | $15,000 |
| Western La County Council Scouting | $15,000 |
| Inner City Arts | $15,000 |
| Visual Arts Design Academy | $15,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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
- AMAMERICAN MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART3× · 2023–2025 · $180k · revenue +39%
- ACArt & Creativity for Healing6× · 2019–2025 · $81k · revenue +24%
- FOFocus On The Masters Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $59k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- COCity of La Verneone grant, 2024 · $17k
- CICITYHEART INCORPORATEDone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +12%
- MOMUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ARTone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -31%
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.
Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…
Engaging community at the intersection of art, history and education through innovative, locally connected and globally relevant exhibits, programs and experiences.
To provide a vibrant, contemporary cultural center through arts education, exhibitions and community outreach that will inspire creativity and enhance people's lives
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla) is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization and publishing platform that is dedicated to providing inclusive perspectives on contemporary art. Publishing in both print and online, Carla is an…
Youth in Arts builds visual and performing arts skills through innovative and in-depth programs that foster confidence, compassion and resilience in students of all abilities. We develop capacity among educators and teaching artists,…
Community-wide program of the arts, providing education, development, and representation of the fine arts to adults, children and senior citizens.
The Museum of Children's Art (MOCHA) in Oakland aims to ensure the arts are a fundamental part of the community by providing quality, hands-on art experiences, particularly for children at risk academically or in underserved areas. Their…
art education
Elevating artists through exhibitions, professional development, and community engagement.
PVAC is dedicated to educating, enriching, and building community through equal and inclusive access to the visual arts. Located at the southernmost tip of Los Angeles County, we strive to be a catalyst for the advancement of LA art,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Create Now Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grace Resource Center Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 76 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 AMERICAN MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART ↗
- Who funds Art & Creativity for Healing ↗
- Who funds CLAREMONT LEWIS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Focus On The Masters Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RYMAN-CARROLL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
- Who funds Free Arts dba Free Arts for Abused Children ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEON ART ↗
- Who funds CRAFT CONTEMPORARY ↗
- Who funds DESERT ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ART TREK INC ↗
- Who funds Vita Art Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CORONA ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CITYHEART INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds CANYON THEATRE GUILD ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Theatre of Hearts Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATE NOW 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: California Community Foundation · Perenchio Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Pasadena Art Alliance · The Ahmanson Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation · Earl B & Loraine H Miller 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 Ruth and Joseph C Reed Foundation for The Arts 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.
- Global Empowerment Mission 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.
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