California · Private foundation
The Murray Reese 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.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 49
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $256k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Murray Reese Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k 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 | 32 | $1.4M | 38% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $1.3M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $1.3M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $828k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $704k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $554k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $534k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 26 | $515k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disability Belongs | $1,010,000 | 8 | 17% |
| Family Equality | $895,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Project Angel Food | $778,622 | 7 | 1% |
| Glaad Inc | $330,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Palm Springs Art Museum | $272,525 | 4 | 1% |
| The Local Journalism Project Inc | $222,325 | 4 | 14% |
| Trevor Project Inc | $205,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Our Childrens Earth Foundation | $175,000 | 1 | 34% |
| Institute for Shipboard Education | $166,668 | 1 | 0% |
| The Film Collaborative Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Murray Reese Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 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: Impactassetsinc · Gramercy Park Foundation Inc · The Brian D Stevens Foundation · California Community Foundation · Horizons Foundation · Rolly Michaux Foundation Inc · Los Angeles Trial Lawyers' Charities a Ca Non Profit Public Benefit Corp · Johnny Carson Foundation · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · The Ahmanson Foundation · GiveClear Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation
How this is measured
About The Murray Reese Foundation
- How much does The Murray Reese Foundation give?
- The Murray Reese Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $1,367,875 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 49 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Murray Reese Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (41%), Arts & Culture (18%), Health (11%).
- Who are The Murray Reese Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Disability Belongs ($1.0M), Family Equality ($895k), Project Angel Food ($779k).
- Does The Murray Reese Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Murray Reese 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 Murray Reese Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Impactassetsinc, Gramercy Park Foundation Inc, The Brian D Stevens Foundation.
- Where is The Murray Reese Foundation based?
- The Murray Reese Foundation is based in CA.
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