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The David E Reese Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$236k
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
6
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

80% of The David E Reese Family Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Arizona Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The David E Reese Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $336k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’17
20
’18
20
’19
18
’20
5
’21
1
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.

Philanthropy$7.9MHealth$3.7MRecreation & Sports$2.3MEducation$1.9MCivil Rights$425kArts & Culture$150kEnvironment$120kInternational$65kOther$0
02FY2021 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $265k
$40,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$113k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$165,000
TOSTAN$100,000
HEALING TOWERS INC$40,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$25,000
PEBBLE BEACH COMPANY FOUNDATION$5,000
NATIONAL APHASIA ASSOCMYRON SNOW$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $481k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RYAN HOUSE: $17k → 11%ABILITY 360: $100k → 11%ABILITY 360: $112k → 11%ABILITY 360: $112k → 11%ABILITY 360: $100k → 11%ABILITY 360: $15k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $13k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $13k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC
MS
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.8M · 26 repeat orgs$692k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2021, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
34

Total granted

$7.8M
$626k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+39%

Still filing today

77%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • SJ
    Stephen J Wampler Foundation Camp WAMP
    3× · 2017–2022 · $2.3M · revenue +115% · 49% of their budget
  • TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL
    3× · 2018–2020 · $750k · revenue +14%
  • DU
    DENISON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $500k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • KM
    KEEPING MEMORY ALIVE CLEVELAND CLINIC
    one grant, 2017 · $262k
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • US
    UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +111%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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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2
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
3
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
4
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

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5
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
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
8
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

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9
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
10
Boston Architectural College

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

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11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
Mount Sinai Health System Inc

The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is ABILITY360 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hg Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVeteran Support ServicesEducation Equity LeadershipLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Community Arts OrganizationsGovernment Accountability R…Pregnancy Support ServicesHospice Care ServicesAnimal Rescue and AdoptionYouth Ice Hockey ProgramsCancer Support OrganizationsCommunity Health CentersLand Conservation Organizat…Developmental Disabilities …Independent K-8 SchoolsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%3%<5yr17%5%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr15%29%20–35yr10%29%35–55yr12%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr17%1%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr15%4%20–35yr10%65%35–55yr12%12%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/43
the rest of the field
16%
4,465/28,442

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
35/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,885,542 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+3 more — $50,000 · PhilanthropyMAYO CLINIC — $1,000,500 · OtherMAYO CLINICCLEVELAND CLINIC - KEEP MEMORY ALIVE — $790,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC - KEEP…MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER — $500,000 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENT…KEEPING MEMORY ALIVE CLEVELAND CLINIC — $262,000 · OtherKEEPING MEMORY ALIVE CL…+34 more — $805,631 · Other+34 moreStephen J Wampler Foundation Camp WAMP — $2,255,218 · Recreation & SportsStephen J Wampl…+1 more — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL — $750,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF…DENISON UNIVERSITY — $500,000 · EducationDENISON UNI…EMPOWER COLLEGE PREP — $140,000 · EducationEMPOWER COL…NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $102,100 · EducationNAVAL POSTG…WHEATON COLLEGE — $90,000 · EducationPRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $65,000 · Education+3 more — $75,000 · EducationABILITY360 INC — $439,000 · Human ServicesHospice of the Valley — $25,000 · Human ServicesRYAN HOUSE — $16,667 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC — $175,000 · HealthMONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthTHE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION — $60,000 · HealthALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Health+3 more — $3,000 · HealthTOSTAN INC — $225,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $50,000 · International
Philanthropy$7,935,542Other$3,358,131Recreation & Sports$2,285,218Education$1,722,100Human Services$480,667Health$363,000International$275,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,885,542 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetStephen J Wampler Foundation Camp WAMP — $2,255,218 over 3y, 49% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL — $750,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY — $500,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetABILITY360 INC — $439,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTOSTAN INC — $225,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC — $175,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEMPOWER COLLEGE PREP — $140,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHUNDERBIRD LODGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $110,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetNAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $102,100 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetYavapai Exceptional Industries — $100,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE — $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY — $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION — $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEALING TOWERS INC — $40,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig Sur Land Trust — $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWADLEIGH SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 87% of budgetHospice of the Valley — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION FLYERS — $25,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS TUCSON — $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSURFACE CREEK ANIMAL SHELTER — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRYAN HOUSE — $16,667 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPebble Beach Company Foundation — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetENVISION EDUCATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA JUSTICE PROJECT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL APHASIA ASSOCIATION I — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOLUMBUS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Arizona Community Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…The Ayco Charitable F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Renaissance Charitabl…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ25.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The David E Reese Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

Source object · view filing

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