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The Reed Foundation Co John Reed at a glance

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The Reed Foundation Co John Reed

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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$173kYouth Development$57kHealth$23kCommunity Improvement$10kHuman Services$8kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$781k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMY$20,000
SAVING THE YOUTH$20,000
HOUSTON CHILDREN'S CHARITY$10,000
HOUSTON COALITION FOR LIFE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH: $7k → 10%THE VILLAGE LEARNING CENTER: $7k → 16%VILLAGE LEARNING AND ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$247k · 5 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +64% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$247k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+64%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HM
    HARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $136k · revenue +67%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    2× · 2017–2022 · $15k · revenue +44%
  • TV
    THE VILLAGE LEARNING CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $9k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • BC
    BETHANY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +3%
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +44%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Houston Christian University

The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."

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2
Trinity Charter School

The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…

Education
3
Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education
4
Hynes Charter School Corporation

Public school educational institution

Education
5
South Texas College of Law Houston Inc

South texas college of law houston provides a diverse body of students the opportunity to obtain an exceptional legal education, preparing graduates to serve their community and profession with distinction.

Education
6
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
7
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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8
The College School Association

To explore the world through authentic experiences, empowering students to engage deeply and be ready for what is next.

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9
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
10
Thomas University

Thomas university is an independent, not for profit, institution of higher education with undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare students for successful careers and responsible citizenship in a rapidly changing and complex world.

Education
11
Hilbert College

Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…

Education
12
Midwives College of Utah

Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston's Charity for Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Village Learning Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMY: $136,408 · EducationHARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMYUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHBETHANY COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationBETHANY COLLEGE+2 more: $3,500 · EducationSAVING THE YOUTH: $56,500 · OtherSAVING THE YOUTHIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBETHANY FUND: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $3,500 · OtherTHE VILLAGE LEARNING CENTER INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesHOUSTON COALITION FOR LIFE: $10,000 · HealthHOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Education$164,908Other$122,000Human Services$15,500Health$10,000Community Improvement$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMY: $136,408 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VILLAGE LEARNING CENTER INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Blackbaud Giving …Shell USA Company Fou…Natl Christian Charit…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC13.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Reed Foundation Co John Reed funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Reed Foundation Co John Reed. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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