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Sam and Victoria Reed Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$321k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$714kAnimals$687kHealth$220kEnvironment$211kFood & Nutrition$141kPhilanthropy$113kRecreation & Sports$105kHuman Services$94kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $103k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $218k
$6,500
Median grant
15
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SADDLEBRED RESCUE INC$35,000
OCALA INTERNATIONAL HORSE SHOW$35,000
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$27,500
FOOD FOR THOUGHT DENVER$25,000
MOVE UP GLOBAL INC$20,000
RICE UNIVERSITY$20,000
THE ACCESS FUND$15,000
ABORTION CARE NETWORK$10,000
PARKINSONS FOUNDATION INC$10,000
STAND$10,000
BUTLER NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND$10,000
DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC$7,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY$6,500
FISTULA FOUNDATION$6,500
RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK$6,500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 10%WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $6k → 11%THE FOOD DEPOT: $1k → 12%MISERICORDIA HOME: $5k → 14%WARREN VILLAGE INC: $6k → 12%MISERICORDIA HOME: $5k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $5k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $5k → 14%MISERICORDIA FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%MISERICORDIA FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $5k → 14%WOUNDED HEROES FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

WA
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 100% of Sam and Victoria Reed Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 11% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Sam and Victoria Reed Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 45 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

45 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
38

Total granted

$2.2M
$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+16%

Still filing today

89%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • WM
    William Marsh Rice University
    7× · 2017–2025 · $520k · revenue +104%
  • AS
    AMERICAN SADDLEBRED HORSE AND BREEDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $105k · revenue +119%
  • MU
    MOVE UP GLOBAL INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +29% · 34% of their budget

Funded once

  • HH
    HINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $16k
  • AS
    ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +39%
  • UP
    UNITED PROFESSIONAL HORSEMEN'S ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +89%

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.

1
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
3
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
6
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
7
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
8
Humane Farm Animal Care

Every farmer and rancher participating in the Certified Humane program had to modify their operations to meet the Animal Care Standards and be certified. Schedule O

Animals
9
The Humane League

We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…

Animals
10
American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign

The american wild horse campaign is the nation's leading conservation organization dedicated to preserving the freedom and habitat of wild horses and burros. through its initiatives in advocacy, conservation, land preservation, and legal…

Animals
11
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
12
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is As You Sow and the most unlike its peers is Big Bones Canine Rescue Services 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Christian Missionary Organi…Community FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Pregnancy Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterMilitary Veterans SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Local Food System Organizat…Food Banks and PantriesEquine Therapy Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%37%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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%0/66
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,499

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

64 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. 64 of the 85 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
40/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

William Marsh Rice University — $520,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice UniversityFood For Thought Denver — $87,500 · EducationFood For Thought DenverMOVE UP GLOBAL INC — $70,000 · EducationMOVE UP GLOBAL INCBUTLER NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $70,000 · EducationBUTLER NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $67,500 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · Education+5 more — $49,000 · Education+5 moreSaddlebred Rescue Inc — $365,025 · AnimalsSaddlebred Rescue IncAMERICAN SADDLEBRED HORSE AND BREEDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $105,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN SADDLEBRED HORSE A…THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $25,000 · AnimalsTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $25,000 · AnimalsDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $24,000 · Animals+8 more — $55,000 · Animals+8 moreAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION (SPEARMAN COMMUNITY FUND) — $80,000 · OtherAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATIO…AMERICAN SADDLEBRED MUSEUM — $72,500 · OtherAMERICAN SADDLEBRED MUS…THE ACCESS FUND — $64,500 · OtherTHE ACCESS FUNDNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $32,500 · OtherNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD …FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $22,500 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $19,500 · Other+33 more — $181,000 · Other+33 morePARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · HealthHINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $30,000 · HealthABORTION CARE NETWORK — $30,000 · HealthNATIONAL ACADEMY CHAMPIONSHIP INC — $28,000 · HealthThe Fistula Foundation — $25,000 · Health+1 more — $5,500 · HealthSTAND — $35,500 · EnvironmentRainforest Action Network — $25,000 · Environment350ORG — $24,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $19,500 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EnvironmentMISERICORDIA HOME — $25,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL — $25,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED HEROES FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesWARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION — $6,250 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE INC — $5,500 · Human Services+2 more — $2,400 · Human ServicesOcala International Horse Show Inc — $60,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$894,000Animals$599,025Other$497,500Health$168,500Environment$114,000Human Services$84,150Recreation & Sports$70,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $520,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSaddlebred Rescue Inc — $365,025 over 9y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN SADDLEBRED HORSE AND BREEDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $105,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetFood For Thought Denver — $87,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetMOVE UP GLOBAL INC — $70,000 over 5y, 34% of budgetBUTLER NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $70,000 over 6y, 40% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $67,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACCESS FUND — $64,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOcala International Horse Show Inc — $60,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND — $35,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetABORTION CARE NETWORK — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY CHAMPIONSHIP INC — $28,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFARAJA FUND FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRainforest Action Network — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget350ORG — $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MALALA FUND — $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $19,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $19,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMERFIELD WALDORF SCHOOL AND FARM — $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Land Institute — $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED PROFESSIONAL HORSEMEN'S ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED HEROES FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMBAT MARINE OUTDOORS INC — $6,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION — $6,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BONES CANINE RESCUE SERVICES INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS — $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MAXFUND INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

AbbVie FoundationThe Chicago Community…National Philanthropi…Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodRenaissance Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…
AbbVie FoundationIL12.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Sam and Victoria Reed 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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