· Private foundation
The Reba a Will 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - PEABODY INSTITUTE | $80,000 |
| SOLOMAN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | $15,297 |
| GRACE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $15,046 |
| PAUL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL | $6,500 |
| BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK | $6,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN SHENENDOAH VALLEY | $6,500 |
| DC CENTRAL KITCHEN | $6,500 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $6,500 |
| DELTA OMICRON FOUNDATION INC | $6,500 |
| PICKLEBERRY PIE | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $395k · revenue +40%- BRBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC5× · 2021–2025 · $32k · revenue +16%
- PPPAUL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- MCMT CLIFTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $1k
- RWREBA WILL REVOCABLE TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $165
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Houston food bank's mission is to provide food for better lives. last year we provided access to 136 million nutritious meals in 18 counties in southeast texas through our 1,600 community partners which includes food pantries, soup…
To provide food assistance through a network of partners, while educating and engaging our communities in the elimination of hunger and its causes.
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
Vetri community partnership's (vcp) mission is to nourish minds, bodies, and communities with nutrition education through cooking.
Cultivate local food systems prioritizing health, equity, and sustainability, from farm forward.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
We mobilize and educate our community to ensure equitable access to nutritious and familiar food. we do this by raising, and soliciting funds for the acquisition, storage, growing, collection and distribution of food to low income citizens…
The food trust (tft), a nonprofit founded in philadelphia in 1992, strives to make healthy food available to all.continued on schedule otft is a regional and national leader in developing new strategies to prevent childhood obesity and…
Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. we…
Manna food center, inc strives to end hunger in our community through education, advocacy, and food distribution to individuals and partner agencies. manna's guiding principles are to be service-driven, community- centered and…
The mission of Little Chefs, Big Change (LCBC) is to get kids excited about food that's good for both people and the planet. We do this by teaching affordable and fun plant-focused cooking and increasing access to healthy foods in schools…
Food in need of distribution, inc. (find food bank) is dedicated to relieving hunger, the causes of hunger, and the problems associated with hunger through awareness, education, and mobilization of resources and community involvement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dc Central Kitchen Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pickleberry Pie Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA OMICRON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PICKLEBERRY PIE INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Reba a Will 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 11% of income from government
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 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.