How much did THE MURRAY REESE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of THE MURRAY REESE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

—

2021

—

2022

playhouse

2023

defensepalm springs

2024

palm springs

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k22 grants · $41k
$10k–50k16 grants · $343k
$50k–250k9 grants · $655k
$250k+1 grant · $255k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$91k

Total assets

Largest grants

PROJECT ANGEL FOOD$255,000
FAMILY EQUALITY COUNCIL$125,000
RESPECTABILITY$112,500
WBGH FOUNDATION$87,375
DISABILITY BELONGS$75,000
LOCAL JOURNALISM PROJECT INC$55,000
PALM SPRINGS PLAZA THEATRE$50,000
EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM$50,000
GLAAD$50,000
PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT$25,000
THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE CENTER$25,000
THE TREVOR PROJECT$25,000
GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES AND DEFENDERS$25,000

02The need

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 (FY19–24, $967k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.4M · 47 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

47 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.4M

$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+91%

Still filing today

49%

34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $309k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

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RESPECTABILITY
6× · 2019–2024 · $925k · revenue +121%
FE
FAMILY EQUALITY COUNCIL
7× · 2017–2024 · $770k · revenue +7%
PA
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD
5× · 2019–2024 · $526k · revenue +323%

Funded once

OC
OUR CHILDREN'S EARTH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $175k
SA
SEMESTER AT SEA
one grant, 2017 · $167k
MM
MEDIA MATTERS
one grant, 2023 · $100k

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.

Rockaway Film Festival

Rockaway film festival presents cinema and other arts at the coastal edge of new york city, joining artists and audiences for unique collective experiences.

Arts & Culture

Apollo Theater Foundation Inc

The apollo theater is a commissioner and presenter; catalyst for new artists, audiences, and creative workforce; and partner in the projection of the african american narrative and its role in the development of american and global culture.

Arts & Culture

New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

To empower artists at critical stages in their creative lives

Arts & Culture

Advocates for Trans Equality

Advocates for trans equality fights for the legal and political rights of transgender people in america. leveraging decades of experience on the frontlines of power, we shift government and society towards a future where we are no less…

Civil Rights

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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The Representation Project

The Representation Project uses storytelling to challenge harmful gender stereotypes and norms, shift attitudes and behavior, and transform culture. Were committed to building a thriving and inclusive society through films, education, and…

Civil Rights

Lawyers for the Creative Arts

Provision of pro bono legal and consulting services to qualifying individuals/companies in the creative arts.

Arts & Culture

Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media

For 20 years, the Geena Davis Institute has championed authentic media representation. Through groundbreaking research, we highlight the life-changing impact of inclusion and pioneer pathways that uplift gender and marginalized identities…

Civil Rights

Peninsula Arts Guild

Performing arts facility in the san francisco bay area's peninsula region.

Arts & Culture

Pro Publica Inc

To expose abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust. [see continuation on schedule o] by government, business, and other institutions, using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform through the sustained…

Arts & Culture

Immigration Equality

Immigration equality promotes justice and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and hiv-positive immigrants through direct legal services, policy advocacy, and impact litigation.

Civil Rights

Philadelphia Film Society

Philadelphia film society creates opportunities for diverse communities to experience film.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Archives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Project Angel Food. 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.

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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/45

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,520

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.

05the grantee network

44 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/44

Grantees still filing

35/44

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,646,850Human Services$967,250Education$871,325Health$554,622Arts & Culture$354,392Civil Rights$285,000Community Improvement$58,500

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.

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.

The Brian D Stevens FoundationCA15.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Brian D Stevens Foundation · Gill Foundation · Horizons Foundation · California Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Pledgeling Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund

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 organisation THE MURRAY REESE 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RESPECTABILITY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 462840232 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on RESPECTABILITY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 17% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Murray Reese Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Murray Reese Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE MURRAY REESE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

44 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Murray Reese Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE MURRAY REESE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

44 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Murray Reese Foundation?

More from the funding graph