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The Dale L Reese Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Dale L Reese Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$188k
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$10k
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.

Health$581kEducation$157kHuman Services$153kFood & Nutrition$141kPhilanthropy$95kRecreation & Sports$76kYouth Development$46kEnvironment$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k59 grants · $178k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
15
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAIN LINE MEALS ON WHEELS$10,000
RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$8,000
CHOP FOUNDATION$7,000
TRUSTEES THE UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA$7,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC HEART INSTITUTE$7,000
PHILABUNDANCE$6,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$6,000
SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS$6,000
BREASTCANCERORG$6,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$6,000
PAOLI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,500
THORNCROFT EQUESTRIAN CENTER$5,500
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK$5,000
GARRETT WILLIAMSON FOUNDATION$4,500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$4,500
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, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%ALL 4 PAWS RESCUE: $500 → 6%PALS PROGRAMS: $2k → 6%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%PALS PROGRAMS: $2k → 10%ALL 4 PAWS RESCUE: $500 → 6%PALS PROGRAMS: $2k → 6%CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND: $2k → 10%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%PALS PROGRAMS: $2k → 10%CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND: $2k → 10%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%PALS PROGRAMS: $2k → 10%CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND: $2k → 10%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%PALS PROGRAMS: $1k → 10%CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND: $1k → 10%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%PALS PROGRAMS: $1k → 10%CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND: $1k → 10%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%PALS PROGRAMS: $1k → 10%CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND: $1k → 10%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND: $500 → 10%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND: $500 → 10%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND: $500 → 10%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $4k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $4k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $2k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $910 → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $4k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $4k → 22%SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $6k → 6%SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $6k → 6%SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $6k → 6%SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $6k → 6%SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $5k → 6%SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $5k → 6%SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $4k → 6%SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $3k → 6%SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $3k → 6%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

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
TN
DC
OK
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 66 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

66 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
6

Total granted

$1.3M
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+118%

Still filing today

73%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalEducationFood & 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

  • ML
    MAIN LINE MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +71%
  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +5%
  • B
    BREASTCANCERORG
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +206%

Funded once

  • CF
    CROZER-CHESTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • CS
    CURE SMA - PA CHAPTER
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • UD
    UPPER DUBLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -7%
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
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
2
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
3
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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4
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
5
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
6
Cancer Research and Biostatistics

To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.

Health
7
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
10
Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation

To aid the alliance for clinical trials in oncology national clinical trials cooperative group and support the clinical trials and laboratory research of the alliance, as well as efforts to educate the medical community on methods of…

Health
11
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
12
Inova Health System Foundation

Inova health system foundation is the parent of inova health system (ihs). ihs provides healthcare and related services throughout northern virginia and the greater metropolitan washington, d.c. area, including certain contiguous counties…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Works Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

54 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. 54 of the 76 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
37/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAIN LINE MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $73,000 · OtherMAIN LINE MEALS ON WHEELS INCLAKEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ALUM: $50,000 · OtherLAKEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ALUMCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $46,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $46,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSETHERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING INC: $41,500 · OtherTHERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING INCTRUSTEES THE UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA: $38,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $34,000 · OtherALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $29,500 · OtherGARRETT WILLIAMSON: $26,500 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION: $26,000 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH: $26,000 · OtherFRACTURED ATLASBUILD A BAND: $24,500 · Other+28 more: $260,665 · Other+28 moreTHE RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $63,500 · HealthTHE RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDA…BREASTCANCERORG: $45,000 · HealthBREASTCANCERORGPAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthPAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUN…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $34,500 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF P…FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY: $22,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUN…CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATIONCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $19,500 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION…MIRACLES IN PROGRESS: $17,000 · HealthTemple University Hospital Inc: $16,000 · HealthFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA: $15,500 · HealthGBSCIDP FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC: $12,500 · Health+8 more: $52,000 · Health+8 moreSURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC: $43,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $25,410 · Human ServicesTHE DAN MARINO FOUNDATION INC: $19,700 · Human ServicesPALS Programs: $12,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED: $9,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesPhilabundance: $39,000 · Food & NutritionCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $29,000 · Food & NutritionTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $60,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationChester County Community Foundation: $19,100 · PhilanthropyWoods Services Foundation: $16,000 · PhilanthropyTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $12,500 · PhilanthropyMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,400 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $9,500 · InternationalGlobal Impact: $5,000 · InternationalSEVA FOUNDATION: $3,000 · International
Other$721,665Health$352,500Human Services$110,110Food & Nutrition$68,000Education$62,000Philanthropy$47,600International$31,900

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 budgetMAIN LINE MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $73,000 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetTHE RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $63,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $60,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBREASTCANCERORG: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC: $43,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING INC: $41,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetPhilabundance: $39,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $34,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $29,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $29,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGARRETT WILLIAMSON: $26,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $25,410 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $23,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY: $22,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAN MARINO FOUNDATION INC: $19,700 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $19,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChester County Community Foundation: $19,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD WORKS INC: $17,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMIRACLES IN PROGRESS: $17,000 over 9y, 20% of budgetWoods Services Foundation: $16,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetTemple University Hospital Inc: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA: $15,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $14,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $12,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGBSCIDP FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC: $12,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $12,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPALS Programs: $12,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $11,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA: $11,265 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DEVON HORSE SHOW AND COUNTRY FAIR FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED: $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHEADSTRONG FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST: $8,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHorse Power for Life: $8,500 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORK TO RIDE INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Impact: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS COUNCIL INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEVA FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER DUBLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

  • Who funds MAIN LINE MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds BREASTCANCERORG ↗
  • Who funds SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC ↗
  • Who funds THERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING INC ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds GARRETT WILLIAMSON ↗
  • Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE DAN MARINO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Chester County Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GOOD WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds MIRACLES IN PROGRESS ↗
  • Who funds Woods Services Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Temple University Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗

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.

Chester County Commun…The Philadelphia Foun…United Way of Chester…The Cigna Group Found…Wsfs Cares FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Chubb Charitable Foun…The Pfizer Foundation…Ethel S C Smith No 5 …The Gordon Charter Fo…The Wawa Foundation I…Connelly Foundation
Chester County Community FoundationPA21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chester County Community Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Chester County Inc · The Cigna Group Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ethel S C Smith No 5 Charitable Tw · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Wawa Foundation Inc · Connelly 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 Dale L Reese Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dale L Reese Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Serviam Girls Academy Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 76 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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