· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PARROCHIA DI SAN JACOPO | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ESCUOLA DI MUSICALE DI CASCIA | $10,000 |
| CITY OF NEWARK | $756 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 64% of The Gilbert Reese Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 80%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gilbert Reese Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gilbert Reese Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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