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The Christopher Reynolds Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
62
Grants FY2024
65
Organizations funded FY2023
58%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$570,000
Organizations funded a year
44 to 65
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
17
Total assets, FY2024
$19M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 58% of the organizations The Christopher Reynolds Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $288k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving59$2.1M47%
FY202365$989k58%
FY202245$749k44%
FY202144$730k64%
FY202051$967kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$1.8MCivil Rights$1.5MHealth$908kEducation$635kPublic Benefit$577kHuman Services$191kCrime & Legal$169kInternational$149kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of The Christopher Reynolds Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Metafoundation Dba Post Carbon Institute$894,500555%
Trustees of Clark University$500,00040%
Care Lab$272,500451%
Good Work Institute Inc$170,00054%
Black Belt Justice Center$143,500412%
The Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights$137,500122%
Caribbean Agroecology Institute Inc (Fka Vermont Caribbean Institute Inc)$132,000418%
Medical Education Cooperation With Cuba$110,000213%
Friends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration$95,00027%
Pesticide Action Network North America$90,00031%
The Orion Society Inc$85,00023%
Opencollective Foundation$75,00010%
Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute$70,00026%
The Spikenard Farm Inc$65,70054%
People's Solar Energy Fund$50,00017%
Schumacher Center for a New Economics Inc$50,00016%
Center for Responsible Travel$45,00018%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$40,00010%
Science and Nonduality$35,00021%
Greenagers Inc$30,00021%
The Wellspring Commons Stewards Inc$25,500238%
The Garrison Institute$25,12020%
Kindle Project$25,00010%
Codepink Women for Peace$20,00011%
Aspen Global Change Institute Inc$20,00011%
Organic Growers School Inc$20,00022%
Center for Economic Democracy Inc$20,00020%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley$15,0001n/a
Institute for Social Ecology$15,00019%
Post Growth Institute$15,00013%
Honor the Earth$13,25020%
Inquiring Systems Inc$10,00010%
Preventable Surprises Inc$10,000111%
Camphill Ghent Inc$9,00020%
Beaver Institute Inc$8,00022%
National Lawyers Guild Inc$6,20020%
World Central Kitchen Inc$6,00010%
The Fistula Foundation$6,00050%
Equal Justice Initiative$5,50020%
Union Theological Seminary$5,00010%
Southwest Organizing Project$5,00010%
Center for Constitutional Rights$5,00010%
Community Movement Builders Inc$5,00010%
The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated$5,00010%
Urban Sustainability Directors Network$5,00010%
Off-The-Grid Missions$5,00011%
Network For Strong Communities Inc$5,00010%
American Jesuits International Inc$5,00011%
Green Cities Fund Inc$5,00012%
The Decarceration Collective$5,0001n/a
Berkshire Waldorf High School Inc$4,75030%
Survival International (Usa)$4,00011%
Turning Green$4,00010%
Homeboy Industries$4,00030%
Interlace Commons Inc$4,00011%
Retreat Farm Ltd$4,00010%
The Montana Project Inc$3,50022%
Vermont Law School$3,50010%
Sustainable Markets Foundation$3,50010%
Justice Funders$3,50010%
The Cornerstone Forum$3,50052%
Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Assoc$3,50010%
Amazon Watch Inc$3,50010%
Miracle Messages$3,00030%
Smokey House Center$3,00010%
Commonweal$3,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$2,50020%
Housatonic River Initiative Inc$2,50018%
The Horse Shelter$2,50050%
Footprint Project$2,50010%
Western Environmental Law Center$2,50030%
El Rito Public Library$2,50021%
Earth Viability Center$2,0001n/a
Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project$2,00040%
Espanola Valley Humane Society$2,00040%
Rainforest Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill Inc$2,00021%
The Redwoods a Community of Seniors$2,00030%
Landweb Inc$2,00011%
Arts Scholars Foundation$2,00015%
Menikanaehkem Inc$2,0001n/a
Homegrown National Park Inc$2,00030%
Weaving Earth Inc$2,00010%
Creature Conserve Inc$1,50012%
Salvation Farms Inc$1,50010%
Sterling College$1,50010%
Blue Rider Stables Inc$1,50010%
Manhattan Country School Inc$1,50010%
Jespy House Inc$1,50030%
The Roosevelt Institute$1,50020%
Friends of the Earth$1,00010%
Fairgrounds Community Redevelopment Project Incorporated$1,000140%
Ekvnv Yefolecvlke$1,00010%
New Hampshire Peace Action$1,0001n/a
Reunity Resources$1,00020%
Agitarte Inc$1,00010%
The Nutrition Center Inc$1,00011%
Bershire Resources for Integration of Diverse Groups & Education Inc Bridge$1,00010%
Green Berkshires Inc$1,00014%
Southwest Learning Centers Inc$1,00011%
Luciente Inc$1,0001n/a
Santa Fe Raptor Center$1,00020%
Indian Cultural Organization$1,00012%
Movement Strategy Center$1,00010%
New Mexico Wildlife Center Inc$50010%
Apis Arborea$50010%
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance$50010%
Xerces Society Inc$50010%
Litchfield Land Trust Inc$50010%
The Food Depot$50010%
The Living New Deal Project$50010%
Yosemite Climbing Association$50010%
The Carter Center Inc$50010%
Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society Inc$50010%
Peoples Park Historic District Advocacy Group$2001n/a
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$20010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Christopher Reynolds Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 109 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMetafoundation Dba Post Carbon Institute: $894,500 over 5y, 55% of budgetTrustees of Clark University: $500,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCare Lab: $272,500 over 4y, 51% of budgetGood Work Institute Inc: $170,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetBlack Belt Justice Center: $143,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetThe Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights: $137,500 over 1y, 22% of budgetCaribbean Agroecology Institute Inc (Fka Vermont Caribbean Institute Inc): $132,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetMedical Education Cooperation With Cuba: $110,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetFriends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration: $95,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetPesticide Action Network North America: $90,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetThe Orion Society Inc: $85,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetOpencollective Foundation: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAnishinaabe Agriculture Institute: $70,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetThe Spikenard Farm Inc: $65,700 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetPeople's Solar Energy Fund: $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetSchumacher Center for a New Economics Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetCenter for Responsible Travel: $45,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetScience and Nonduality: $35,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGreenagers Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Wellspring Commons Stewards Inc: $25,500 over 2y, 38% of budgetThe Garrison Institute: $25,120 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKindle Project: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCodepink Women for Peace: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAspen Global Change Institute Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOrganic Growers School Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCenter for Economic Democracy Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetInstitute for Social Ecology: $15,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetPost Growth Institute: $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHonor the Earth: $13,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetInquiring Systems Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPreventable Surprises Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCamphill Ghent Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBeaver Institute Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNational Lawyers Guild Inc: $6,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnion Theological Seminary: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthwest Organizing Project: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Constitutional Rights: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Movement Builders Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUrban Sustainability Directors Network: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOff-The-Grid Missions: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNetwork For Strong Communities Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Jesuits International Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGreen Cities Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 109.

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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.

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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.

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About The Christopher Reynolds Foundation Inc

How much does The Christopher Reynolds Foundation Inc give?
The Christopher Reynolds Foundation Inc reported 62 grants totaling $2,652,050 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 65 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Christopher Reynolds Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (23%), Civil Rights (19%), Health (11%).
Who are The Christopher Reynolds Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Metafoundation Dba Post Carbon Institute ($895k), Trustees of Clark University ($500k), Care Lab ($273k).
Does The Christopher Reynolds Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Christopher Reynolds Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Christopher Reynolds Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Rsf Social Finance Inc, Santa Fe Community Foundation.
Where is The Christopher Reynolds Foundation Inc based?
The Christopher Reynolds Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

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 171 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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