South Carolina · Private foundation
The Reams Foundation Inc
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.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $460,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $38M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The Reams Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 18 | $2.0M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $1.5M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $1.7M | 6% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $1.8M | 6% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $1.2M | 7% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $1.1M | 11% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $1.3M | 11% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $1.2M | 37% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EdChoice Inc | $2,826,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Stand Together Chamber of Commerce Inc | $2,460,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Mackinac Center | $990,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Institute for Justice | $960,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Foundation for Economic Education Inc | $910,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research | $730,000 | 9 | 1% |
| State Policy Network | $670,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cato Institute | $400,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty | $390,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Libertas Network | $360,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Reams Foundation Inc 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: Donors Trust Inc · The Armstrong Foundation · Atlas Economic Research Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Reams Foundation Inc
- How much does The Reams Foundation Inc give?
- The Reams Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $2,031,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Reams Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Public Benefit (19%), Community Improvement (19%).
- Who are The Reams Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: EdChoice Inc ($2.8M), Stand Together Chamber of Commerce Inc ($2.5M), Mackinac Center ($990k).
- Does The Reams Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Reams Foundation Inc 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 Reams Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, The Armstrong Foundation, Atlas Economic Research Foundation.
- Where is The Reams Foundation Inc based?
- The Reams Foundation Inc is based in SC.
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