· Private foundation
The Reed Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $139k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $118k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAP INTERNATIONAL | $68,000 |
| MEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| SUDAN RELIEF FUND | $35,000 |
| AMERICARES | $30,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY - ROLLINS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | $20,000 |
| FOUNDATION CONTRIBUTION TO CARE VIA LOAN FORGIVENESS - 6302024 | $20,000 |
| ATLANTA HUMANE SOCIETY | $12,000 |
| ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $12,000 |
| HUNTINGTON MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| WELLS BRING HOPE | $6,300 |
| JUAN NEUMAN CENTER | $6,000 |
| CONSCIENCE INTERNATIONAL | $5,800 |
| WV HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 52% of The Reed Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 32% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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
MAP International Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $310k · revenue +134%- SRSUDAN RELIEF FUND INC3× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +44%
- EUEmory University5× · 2020–2024 · $58k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- PHPLEDGE HEALTHone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -38%
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +40%- SCSHEPHERD CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +22%
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.
MedGlobal is a humanitarian non-governmental organization working to serve vulnerable communities around the world by providing innovative, free, and sustainable healthcare. Our health services support refugees, displaced persons, and…
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
Our mission is to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.
Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…
Helping Children Worldwide works with local partners in strong collaborations and brings resources and capacity-buillding assistance to partners so they may address the root causes of child poverty and child mortality in their community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Lemon Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 37 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 MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SUDAN RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds WELLS BRING HOPE ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PLEDGE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHEAT INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds National Women's Health Network ↗
- Who funds Southern Center for Human Rights ↗
- Who funds The Place of Forsyth County Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HUNGER FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Essential Development Inc ↗
- Who funds The Lemon Foundation ↗
- Who funds CONSCIENCE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MOVING ON INC WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER TO END DV ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS AVIAN CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Reed 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.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% 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.