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The Catherine B Reynolds Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Catherine B Reynolds Foundation Inc

To support a variety of philanthropic programs including but not limited to in the areas of education, the arts, and research, through grant making to other 501(c) organizations.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$21MArts & Culture$1.0MHuman Services$170kPublic Benefit$90kReligion$61kHealth$55kFood & Nutrition$50kEnvironment$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $98k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.4M
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACHIEVEMENT$2,150,000
JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$250,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION$25,000
COAST GUARD FOUNDATION$12,500
CLOSE UP FOUNDATION$10,000
ALASKA AVIATION HERITAGE MUSEUM$10,000
CENTRONIA$10,000
BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC$10,000
BLACK STUDENT FUND$10,000
WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL$10,000
02The need
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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, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CENTRONIA: $10k → 14%CENTRO NIA: $10k → 14%CENTRO NIA: $10k → 14%CENTRO NIA: $10k → 14%CENTRONIA: $10k → 14%CENTRONIA: $10k → 14%CENTRO NIA: $10k → 14%CENTRO NIA: $10k → 14%ARMY DISTAFF FOUNDATION: $100k → 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

AK
NY
MA
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 14 repeat orgs$373k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
16

Total granted

$24M
$325k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+38%

Still filing today

86%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AA
    AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACHIEVEMENT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $22M · revenue +26% · 93% of their budget
  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $854k · revenue +115%
  • NY
    New York University
    5× · 2017–2021 · $620k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ARMY DISTAFF FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    2× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +19%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE JIMMY CARTER NAT'L H
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -75%
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
5
The Institute of World Politics

The institute of world politics is a graduate school of national security and international affairs, dedicated to developing leaders with a sound understanding of international realities and the ethical conduct of statecraft, based on…

International
6
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
7
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs

To preserve and promote the enduring legacy of harry s. truman, america's 33rd president.

Education
10
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
11
Center for Strategic and International Studies

The center for strategic and international studies (csis) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world's greatest challenges.

International
12
Association of American Universities Inc

Founded in 1900, aau is composed of 71 distinguished institutions in the united states and canada that continually advance society through education, research, and discovery. our u.s. member universities earn the majority of competitively…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; the most unlike its peers is Alaska Aviation Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

36 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.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
28/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACHIEVEMENT: $21,750,000 · EducationAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACHIEVEMENT+8 more: $1,025,000 · EducationJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $854,000 · Arts & CultureFORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY: $135,000 · Arts & CultureAlaska Aviation Museum: $80,000 · Arts & CultureCLOSE UP FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $65,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: $125,000 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D OF C: $60,500 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $50,000 · OtherHudson Institute Inc: $20,000 · Other+5 more: $45,000 · OtherTHE ARMY DISTAFF FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesCENTRONIA: $80,000 · Human ServicesINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 · HealthTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentISLAND CONSERVATION: $5,000 · EnvironmentCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Public Benefit
Education$22,775,000Arts & Culture$1,244,000Other$300,500Human Services$180,000Health$55,000Environment$35,000Public Benefit$12,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACHIEVEMENT: $21,750,000 over 9y, 93% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $854,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $620,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY: $135,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARMY DISTAFF FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRONIA: $80,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAlaska Aviation Museum: $80,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetCLOSE UP FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Panetta Institute for Public Policy: $40,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE JIMMY CARTER NAT'L H: $30,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Institute Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DENYCE GRAVES FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON BALLET: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOakwood Services International Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK STUDENT FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDMF Internationl Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISLAND CONSERVATION: $5,000 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.

Greater Washington Co…Dimick Foundation Joh…Clark-Winchcole Found…The Morris and Gwendo…The Ayco Charitable F…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Chicago Community…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC16× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation

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 The Catherine B Reynolds Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Catherine B Reynolds Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Catherine B Reynolds Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 35 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 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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