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The Rei Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REI CO-OP DAF AT SEATTLE FOUNDATION | $5,508,273 |
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 (FY19–20, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 7% of The Rei 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2022, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.5M 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
- CNCHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK4× · 2017–2020 · $350k · revenue +99%
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC2× · 2019–2020 · $260k · revenue +192%- GIGIRLTREK INCORPORATED3× · 2017–2020 · $140k · revenue +353%
Funded once
- RCREI COOPERATIVE ACTION FUNDone grant, 2021 · $650k
- NFNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $575k · revenue +216%
- COCAMBER OUTDOORS (FNA-OUTDOOR INDUSTRIES WOMEN'S COALITION)one grant, 2017 · $400k
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.
Washington trails association is on a mission to connect everyone to the outdoors and build a community that gives back to trails and public lands.
Our mission is to connect, strengthen and amplify a vibrant network of partners united to preserve, enhance and promote national historic & scenic trails.
To promote trails and greenways and to ensure that people will always have access to the landscape of vermont.
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust leads and inspires action to conserve and enhance the landscape of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.
We empower runners to protect public lands, engage in climate action, and expand access to nature for all. Runners are motivated to be involved in their local communities to protect cherished landscapes and expand access to nature.…
To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth; practice and promote responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment;…
We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)
The redwood trails alliance is an advocate for our diverse community of trail users. we teach responsible trail stewardship and offer volunteer trail work opportunities along with planning and construction services for trails for all to…
Since 1876, the Appalachian Mountain Club has promoted the protection, enjoyment, and understanding of the mountains, forests, waters, and trails of the Appalachian region. We are the nation's oldest outdoor recreation and conservation…
Our mission is to unite the voices of outdoor enthusiasts to protect the humanpowered outdoor recreation experience and conserve Americas public lands.
Grand Teton National Park Foundation (the Foundation) is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to partner with Grand Teton National Park to steward, protect, and enhance all that is special in the park. Budget limitations,…
We teach the health benefits of nature, promote outdoor recreation, and steward the places where we play.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Country Trail Association Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Oregon Public Health Institute. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 33 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 NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CAMBER OUTDOORS ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE OUTDOOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLTREK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds Transforming Youth Outdoors Inc ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
- Who funds EAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNTAINEERS ↗
- Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Washington Area Bicyclist Association ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BIG MARSH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds ISLANDWOOD ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY TRAIL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST ↗
- Who funds ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION 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: Rei Cooperative Action Fund · Seattle Foundation · National Park Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment 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 Rei 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.
- Oregon State University Foundation — 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.