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Sam and Victoria Reed Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
BUTLER NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND$10,000
STAND$10,000
PARKINSONS FOUNDATION INC$10,000
ABORTION CARE NETWORK$10,000
DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC$7,000
RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK$6,500
CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE$6,500
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY$6,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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 FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $5k → 14%MISERICORDIA FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $5k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $5k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $5k → 14%WOUNDED HEROES FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its 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
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Sam and Victoria Reed Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 11% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 0%.

Sam and Victoria Reed Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is As You Sow; 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.
05the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 85 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED HEROES FOUNDATION INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFARAJA FUND FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $25,000 over 4y, 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 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 budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED HEROES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMBAT MARINE OUTDOORS INC: $6,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $6,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAXFUND INC: $6,000 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 budgetWARREN VILLAGE INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

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

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 Sam and Victoria Reed Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sam and Victoria Reed Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
    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 85 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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