· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| DC CENTRAL KITCHEN | $6,500 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $6,500 |
| BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK | $6,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN SHENENDOAH VALLEY | $6,500 |
| DELTA OMICRON FOUNDATION INC | $6,500 |
| PICKLEBERRY PIE | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK 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 ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Reba a Will Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Reba a Will Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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