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The Murray Reese Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$2.4MArts & Culture$1.0MHealth$605kFood & Nutrition$531kInternational$205kHuman Services$205kEducation$171kCrime & Legal$88kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $218k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $862k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$256k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD$250,000
PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM$200,000
FAMILY EQUALITY COUNCIL$125,000
LOCAL JOURNALISM PROJECT INC$125,000
NEO PHILANTHROPY FUND$100,000
WBGH FOUNDATION$87,375
LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER$75,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS$50,000
EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES AND DEFENDERS$50,000
THE TREVOR PROJECT$30,000
NATIONAL RUNAWAY SAFELINE$25,000
THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC$25,000
ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES$25,000
FILM FORUM INC$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE GENDERCOOL PROJECT: $25k → 8%DISABILITY BELONGS: $75k → 6%RESPECTABILITY: $250k → 8%DISABILITY BELONGS: $10k → 6%RESPECTABILITY: $150k → 8%RESPECTABILITY: $150k → 8%WAYOUT LGBT FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%RESPECTABILITY: $113k → 8%RESPECTABILITY: $113k → 8%RESPECT ABILITY: $75k → 8%RESPECTABILITY: $75k → 8%THE ACHIEVABLE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%STRAIGHT UP ABILITIES: $250 → 14%SPECIALIZED HEALTH SERVICES: $500 → 14%SPECIALIZED HEALTH SERVICES: $500 → 14%SPECIALIZED HEALTH SERVICES: $500 → 14%SPECIALIZED HEALTH SERVICES: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DC
HI
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 53 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
40

Total granted

$5.8M
$976k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
0%

Still filing today

60%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $242k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DB
    DISABILITY BELONGS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +43%
  • FE
    FAMILY EQUALITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $895k · revenue +7%
  • PA
    PROJECT ANGEL FOOD
    7× · 2017–2025 · $779k · revenue +452%

Funded once

  • OC
    Our Childrens Earth Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $175k · revenue -78% · 34% of their budget
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION
    one grant, 2017 · $167k · revenue +6%
  • MM
    MEDIA MATTERS
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Profile Theatre Project

Profile theatres mission is to produce a season of first-class productions and community engagement activities centered around a season-long featured writer whose vision broadens our perspective on the world and deepens our collective…

Arts & Culture
2
Equality Federation

Equality federation is an advocacy accelerator rooted in social justice, building power in our network of state-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq+) advocacy organizations.

Civil Rights
3
Equality Federation Institute

Equality federation institute is an advocacy accelerator rooted in social justice, building power in our network of state-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq+) advocacy organizations.

Civil Rights
4
Out & Equal

To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.

Social Science
5
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation

The charitable arm of the tv academy, the academy of television arts & sciences foundation, is dedicated to preserving television while educating and inspiring future leaders.

Arts & Culture
6
The Paley Center for Media

Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…

Arts & Culture
7
The American Theatre Guild

The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.

Arts & Culture
8
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts North America Inc

The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and…

Arts & Culture
9
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
10
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
11
Parity Productions Inc
Arts & Culture
12
Film At Lincoln Center Inc

Film at lincoln center, inc. was formed to develop, stimulate and support the art of film and related media by the presentation of film festivals and year-round film programming at lincoln center or elsewhere; the showing of selected…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Archives Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 109 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/71
Grantees still filing
46/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

APLA HEALTH: $330,000 · OtherAPLA HEALTHGLAAD INC: $330,000 · OtherGLAAD INCWBGH FOUNDATION: $255,721 · OtherWBGH FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF THE CENTER: $175,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CENTERNEO PHILANTHROPY FUND: $125,000 · OtherTELEVISION ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $104,100 · OtherPALM SPRINGS PLAZA THEATRE: $100,000 · OtherMEDIA MATTERS: $100,000 · Other+54 more: $1,045,586 · Other+54 moreFAMILY EQUALITY: $895,000 · EducationFAMILY EQUALITYTHE LOCAL JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $222,325 · EducationTHE LOCAL JOURNALISM…INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $166,668 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBO…+1 more: $7,250 · EducationDISABILITY BELONGS: $1,010,000 · Human ServicesDISABILITY BELON…+5 more: $52,250 · Human ServicesPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $778,622 · HealthPROJECT ANGEL …Eisenhower Medical Center: $100,000 · HealthEisenhower Med…+3 more: $31,750 · HealthPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $272,525 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRING…THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM CO…RAGTAG FILM SOCIETY: $55,000 · Arts & CultureRAGTAG FILM…FILM FORUM INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GOOD INFORMATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $106,517 · Arts & Culture+14 moreTREVOR PROJECT INC: $205,000 · Civil RightsGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC: $75,000 · Civil RightsOUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $25,000 · Civil RightsCENTERLINK INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $25,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $12,500 · Civil RightsOur Childrens Earth Foundation: $175,000 · EnvironmentGlobal Green USA: $10,000 · Environment
Other$2,565,407Education$1,291,243Human Services$1,062,250Health$910,372Arts & Culture$699,042Civil Rights$392,500Environment$185,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDISABILITY BELONGS: $1,010,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetFAMILY EQUALITY: $895,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $778,622 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetGLAAD INC: $330,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $272,525 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LOCAL JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $222,325 over 4y, 14% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $205,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetOur Childrens Earth Foundation: $175,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $166,668 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $125,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAGTAG FILM SOCIETY: $55,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetThe Star Island Corporation: $52,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $39,633 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFILM FORUM INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVAN NESS RECOVERY HOUSE: $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe GenderCool Project: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GOOD INFORMATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES: $21,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational AIDS Memorial Inc: $20,750 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetFINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ACHIEVABLE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget20 Summers Inc: $10,057 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetGlobal Green USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetOUTFEST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetProject Miracle: $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAssociated Students of Glendale College: $7,250 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPROVINCETOWN COMMONS INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budget
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 DISABILITY BELONGS ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY EQUALITY ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
  • Who funds GLAAD INC ↗
  • Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE LOCAL JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Our Childrens Earth Foundation ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds RAGTAG FILM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds The Star Island Corporation ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS ↗
  • Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FILM FORUM INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds VAN NESS RECOVERY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds The GenderCool Project ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗

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.

ImpactassetsincGramercy Park Foundat…The Brian D Stevens F…California Community …Horizons FoundationRolly Michaux Foundat…Los Angeles Trial Law…Johnny Carson Foundat…Cape Cod Foundation I…The Ahmanson Foundati…GiveClear FoundationThe Ralph M Parsons F…
ImpactassetsincMD18.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Murray Reese Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Murray Reese Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Provincetown Film Societyinc: 6% of income from government
  • 20 Summers Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Provincetown Commons Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 109 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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