Ohio · Private foundation
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.
- $3.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $38M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Gilbert Reese Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $3.6M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $3.6M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $3.8M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $3.5M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $1.6M | 40% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $1.2M | 47% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $2.0M | 40% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $1.1M | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newark Campus Development Fund | $10,300,000 | 7 | 46% |
| Newark Development Partners | $2,800,777 | 6 | 32% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbus Inc | $1,293,720 | 2 | 19% |
| City of Newark | $1,231,071 | 8 | n/a |
| Central Ohio Technical College | $471,043 | 8 | n/a |
| The Hill School | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Mound City Little League Inc | $170,000 | 3 | 49% |
| Newark Sport & Event Commission | $125,000 | 1 | 22% |
| Islamorada Foundation Inc | $65,000 | 1 | 15% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newark Campus Development Fund | $10,300,000 | 7 | 46% |
| Newark Development Partners | $2,800,777 | 6 | 32% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbus Inc | $1,293,720 | 2 | 19% |
| City of Newark | $1,231,071 | 8 | n/a |
| Central Ohio Technical College | $471,043 | 8 | n/a |
| The Hill School | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Mound City Little League Inc | $170,000 | 3 | 49% |
| Newark Sport & Event Commission | $125,000 | 1 | 22% |
| Islamorada Foundation Inc | $65,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Granville Recreation District | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Foundation for Hospice of Central Ohio | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Food Pantry Network of Licking County | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Christian City Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Weathervane Playhouse Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| North Newark Little League | $21,850 | 1 | 16% |
| Denison University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Licking County Jail Ministries | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Newark-Granville Symphony Orchestra | $5,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Newark Maennerchor | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Gilbert Reese Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About The Gilbert Reese Family Foundation
- How much does The Gilbert Reese Family Foundation give?
- The Gilbert Reese Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $3,552,524 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Gilbert Reese Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (55%), Community Improvement (14%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are The Gilbert Reese Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Newark Campus Development Fund ($10M), Newark Development Partners ($2.8M), Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbus Inc ($1.3M).
- Does The Gilbert Reese Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gilbert Reese Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Gilbert Reese Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Licking County Foundation Inc, Licking Memorial Health Foundation, The Lindorf Family Foundation.
- Where is The Gilbert Reese Family Foundation based?
- The Gilbert Reese Family Foundation is based in OH.
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