Connecticut · Private foundation
The Reach Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $62k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $50k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations The Reach Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 | 13 | $62k | 69% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $46k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $40k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $111k | 83% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $52k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $9k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $18k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $26k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Hartford Inc | $33,255 | 6 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Refugee Womens Center | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Plainville Community Food Pantry Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Gifts for Humanity Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Active City Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Musicians on Call Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Project Child Save | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Hartford Inc | $33,255 | 6 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Refugee Womens Center | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Plainville Community Food Pantry Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Gifts for Humanity Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Active City Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Musicians on Call Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Project Child Save | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Sams Children Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Helping Hands Store Front Ministries | $1,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Cara McCollums Birthday Book Project | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Covenant to Care for Children Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Fight for Life Foundation Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Meriden Humane Society Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| New Canaan Society for the Arts Inc | $60 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($294k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Reach Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Aetna Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Reach Foundation
- How much does The Reach Foundation give?
- The Reach Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $61,855 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Reach Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Health (19%), Community Improvement (16%).
- Who are The Reach Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Hartford Inc ($33k), Make-A-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc ($20k), The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College ($8k).
- Does The Reach Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Reach Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Reach Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aetna Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Reach Foundation based?
- The Reach Foundation is based in CT.
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