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The Christopher Reynolds Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
62
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$570k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% 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
02FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $323k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $743k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
$2,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW WORLD FOUNDATION$570,000
SCHUMACHER CENTER$518,650
POST CARBON INSTITUTE$445,500
CARE LAB$180,000
CENTER FOR DEMOCRATIC & ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS$137,500
CLARK UNIVERSITY$100,000
GOOD WORK INSTITUTE$100,000
MEDICAL EDUCATION$80,000
NEW WORLD FOUNDATION FBO CLIMATE ACTION HUDSON VALLEY$75,000
Individual grant recipient$70,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
ANISHINAABE AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE$30,000
PESTICIDE ACTION NETWORK NORTH AMERICA$30,000
KINDLE PROJECT$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $191k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BEAVER INSTITUTE: $4k → 12%MULTICULTURAL BRIDGE: $1k → 12%GOOD WORK INSTITUTE: $100k → 16%EKVNV-YEFOLECVLKE: $1k → 18%JESPY HOUSE: $500 → 16%BEAVER INSTITUTE: $4k → 12%MIRACLE MESSAGE: $1k → 10%GOOD WORK INSTITUTE: $40k → 16%JESPY HOUSE: $500 → 16%MIRACLE MESSAGE: $1k → 10%GOOD WORK INSTITUTE: $20k → 16%JESPY HOUSE: $500 → 16%MIRACLE MESSAGE: $1k → 10%GOOD WORK INSTITUTE: $5k → 16%COMMONWEAL: $3k → 8%GOOD WORK INSTITUTE: $5k → 16%LUCIENTE INC: $1k → 18%THE FOOD DEPOT: $500 → 12%BLUE RIDER STABLES: $2k → 12%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

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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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 51 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
86

Total granted

$4.4M
$673k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+11%

Still filing today

82%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $449k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesInternationalAnimalsFood & 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

  • TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +17%
  • CL
    Care Lab
    4× · 2021–2024 · $273k · revenue +920% · 51% of their budget
  • GW
    Good Work Institute Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue ×17

Funded once

  • OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -100%
  • PS
    PEOPLE'S SOLAR ENERGY FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +109%
  • SC
    SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +170%
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
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
2
Collaborative Earth Institute

We are scientists and engineers, humanists and designers. Coming together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries, we form focused teams to discover and co-create pathways to social and ecological regeneration.

Science & Tech
3
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
4
One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth's mission is to empower everyone, everywhere, with the knowledge, inspiration, and opportunity to heal the Earth and reclaim our future.

Environment
5
The Breakthrough Institute

The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.

Environment
6
Multinational Exchange for Sustainable a Mesa andor Mesa Inc

MESA connects and cultivates sustainable farmers and food systems leaders around the world.

Education
7
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
8
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
9
Center for Sustainable Economy

Promoting economic sustainability

Environment
10
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
11
Natural Resource Governance Institute

Nrgi envisions a world where natural resources enable fair, prosperous and sustainable societies, instead of undermining them. nrgi exists because decisions about how natural resources are governed determine the well-being of people in…

International
12
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sustainable Markets Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Decarceration Collective. 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

118 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 118 of the 171 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)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
115/118
Grantees still filing
66/118
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHUMACHER CENTER: $899,204 · OtherSCHUMACHER CENTERCENTER FOR DEMOCRATIC &: $229,000 · OtherCENTER FOR DEMOCRATIC &BLACK BELT JUSTICE CENTER: $143,500 · OtherBLACK BELT JUSTICE CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $135,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $120,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $92,000 · OtherMEDICAL EDUCATION COOPERATION WITH CUBA: $110,000 · OtherCARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE INC (FKA VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE INC): $132,000 · Other+97 more: $799,900 · Other+97 moreTHE NEW WORLD FOUNDATION: $1,438,385 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW WORLD FOUNDATIONOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $25,500 · PhilanthropyMETAFOUNDATION DBA POST CARBON INSTITUTE: $894,500 · EnvironmentMETAFOUNDATION DBA POST …THE CENTER FOR DEMOCRATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS: $137,500 · EnvironmentTHE CENTER FOR DEMOCRATI…GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $90,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUNDPesticide Action Network North America: $90,000 · EnvironmentPesticide Action Network…THE ORION SOCIETY INC: $85,000 · EnvironmentTHE ORION SOCIETY INCThe Spikenard Farm Inc: $65,700 · Environment+18 more: $130,750 · Environment+18 moreTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · EducationTRUSTEES O…THE GARRISON INSTITUTE: $25,120 · Education+15 more: $97,450 · Education+15 moreCare Lab: $272,500 · Public BenefitPEOPLE'S SOLAR ENERGY FUND: $50,000 · Public BenefitPost Growth Institute: $15,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $5,000 · Public BenefitFriends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration: $95,000 · Food & NutritionANISHINAABE AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE: $70,000 · Food & NutritionGREENAGERS INC: $30,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more: $7,000 · Food & NutritionGood Work Institute Inc: $170,000 · Human ServicesBeaver Institute Inc: $8,000 · Human Services+8 more: $12,500 · Human Services
Other$2,660,604Philanthropy$1,538,885Environment$1,493,450Education$622,570Public Benefit$342,500Food & Nutrition$202,000Human Services$190,500

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 budgetTHE NEW WORLD FOUNDATION: $1,438,385 over 5y, 2.7% of 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 budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetPeace Development Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTORS NETWORK: $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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Rsf Social Finance IncSanta Fe Community Fo…Common Counsel Founda…Novo FoundationThe Schmidt Family Fo…ImpactassetsincBerkshire Taconic Com…Surdna Foundation IncProteus Fund IncTides FoundationPatagoniaorg
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC29.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · Novo Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Surdna Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · Patagoniaorg

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Housatonic River Initiative Inc: 79% of income from government
  • Smokey House Center: 54% of income from government
  • Salvation Farms Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Retreat Farm Ltd: 25% of income from government
  • Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Vermont Law School: 14% of income from government
  • Sterling College: 10% of income from government
  • Greenagers Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Jespy House Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
  • Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Orion Society Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 Christopher 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 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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