· Private foundation
The J Miles and Rosanne Reiter 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of THE J MILES AND ROSANNE REITER FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $230k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATSONVILLE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION - PAJARO VALLEY HEALTHCARE DIST P | $500,000 |
| ELKHORN SLOUGH FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| LAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY | $100,000 |
| DOMINICAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ | $30,000 |
| RANCHO CIELO | $30,000 |
| CABRILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| OPEN ARMS CHILDCARE MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| HOUSING MATTERS | $15,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| DIGITAL NEST | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $636k 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
- ESElkhorn Slough Foundation3× · 2021–2024 · $175k · revenue +37%
- RCRANCHO CIELO INC3× · 2022–2024 · $160k · revenue +28%
- DHDOMINICAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $125k
- SFSAINT FRANCISone grant, 2021 · $100k
- SFST FRANCIS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Friends of santa cruz state parks is a vital partner to california state parks, creatively working to ensure parks and beaches throughout santa cruz county and coastal san mateo county are thriving and available to all.
Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
California state parks foundation is an independent, member-supported nonprofit dedicated to protecting and preserving the california state park system for the benefit of all.
To benefit the university of california santa cruz.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Santa Cruz County and the most unlike its peers is Open Arms Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
56 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. 56 of the 98 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 Elkhorn Slough Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RANCHO CIELO INC ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Conservation ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL NEST INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY SALMON & TROUT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HOUSING MATTERS ↗
- Who funds Cabrillo College Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEAN & ED KELLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATSONVILLE WETLANDS WATCH ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COAST YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Open Arms Childcare Ministries ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES RIDING PROGRAM ↗
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: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust · Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Dignity Health · The Seaver Institute · Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation
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 J Miles and Rosanne Reiter 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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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