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The Gilbert Reese Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $756
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $295k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND | $2,200,000 |
| NEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS | $746,768 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL OHIO | $250,000 |
| THE HILL SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| CENTRAL OHIO TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $95,000 |
| LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| PARROCHIA DI SAN JACOPO | $25,000 |
| ESCUOLA DI MUSICALE DI CASCIA | $10,000 |
| CITY OF NEWARK | $756 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 64% of The Gilbert Reese Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 80% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NCNEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND7× · 2019–2025 · $10M · revenue +6% · 46% of their budget
- NDNEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS6× · 2019–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +755% · 32% of their budget
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC2× · 2019–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +3%
Funded once
- NSNEWARK SPORT & EVENT COMMISSIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue +49%
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2024 · $100k
- NHNEWARK HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC DEPTone grant, 2023 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
The mission of the greater cleveland sports commission is to measurably improve the economy of greater cleveland and enrich the community by attracting, creating, managing and enhancing significant sporting and competitive events.
The mission of the newark partnership is to build upon newark's distinctive assets as an inclusive and innovative university community in which businesses, community institutions, city residents, and students work together toward the…
To develop, preserve, and promote our diverse, historic, urban community as a desirable place to live, work, study, play and worship by: "serving as a catalyst to foster neighborhood relationships that build community thereby creating…
To coordinate and promote economic development on a county wide basis among all of the political subdivisions of portage county, ohio.
The mission of the newark ice hockey association is to teach the youth of central ohio, sportsmanship, fair play, respect for coaches, referees, players and fans through the sport of ice hockey, so that they can continue to be good…
To create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal justice systems through zealous client-centered advocacy, innovative policy reform and cross-sector community education.
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
Club ohio soccer is designed and structured to meet the needs of the elite boy's and girl's club soccer player who aspires to play at the highest level of competition. to be successful at the regional and national level, it's necessary to…
Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.
To enrich the lives of our audiences today and tomorrow by providing engaging, enjoyable experiences, and serving as an economic and cultural catalyst that thrives financially, and thinks and acts progressively through the support of our…
The corporation is formed and organized exclusively for the charitable purpose of advancing, encouraging and promoting the industrial, economic, commercial and civil development of an area to serve as a research park for the common benefit…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Newark Development Partners and the most unlike its peers is Islamorada Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 36 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds NEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUND CITY LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds NEWARK SPORT & EVENT COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds ISLAMORADA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR HOSPICE OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD PANTRY NETWORK OF LICKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Christian City Inc ↗
- Who funds WEATHERVANE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds North Newark Little League ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEWARK-GRANVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Licking County Foundation Inc · Licking Memorial Health Foundation · The Lindorf Family Foundation · First Federal Foundation · Park National Corporation Foundation · The O'Neill Foundation · The Englefield Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Cecil Mauger Charitable Trust · The Patricia R and Herbert J Murphy Foundation · The John and Mary Alford Foundation · Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation 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 Gilbert 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.
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.
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