· Private foundation
The Reid Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WNY | $10,000 |
| THE FUEL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHALLENGER SPORTS LEAGUE INC | $5,000 |
| DESALES CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES | $2,500 |
| THE READING LEAGUE INC | $2,500 |
| OLD FORT NIAGARA ASSOCIATION INC | $2,500 |
| HAVEN OF HOPE PREGNANCY SERVICES | $2,000 |
| LOCKPORT ROBOTICS INC | $1,500 |
| ATLAS NETWORK | $1,000 |
| THE CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF ORLEANS NIAGARA & ERIE COUNTIES | $1,000 |
| LOCKPORT HIGH SCHOOL DECA | $500 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 75% 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.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- JAJunior Achievement of Western New York6× · 2020–2025 · $59k · revenue +20%
- FFFuel Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +66%
- LRLOCKPORT ROBOTICS INC3× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +171%
Funded once
- HPHISTORIC PALACE THEATER LOCKPORTone grant, 2021 · $8k
- LPLOCKPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY ENDOWMENT FUNDone grant, 2022 · $500
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.
The Center for the Future of Learning empowers a vibrant learning ecosystem connecting communities to create future-focused solutions for today while sharing effective practices to advance tomorrow. The Center for the Future of Learning…
The Learning Policy Institute (LPI) conducts and disseminates independent, high-quality research to improve learning for all children. A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, LPI connects policymakers and stakeholders at the local, state,…
Education of high school (grades 9-12) students in a boarding and day school format for the purpose of college preparation and placement.
The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…
The learning agency lab seeks to improve the effectiveness of k-16 education, especially for historically marginalized populations, by creating free or at-cost resources that are aligned to the science of learning.
To create a learning environment designed to explore space through innovative programs that will change how teachers educate, students learn, and foster in them a long term interest in science, math, and technology.
Junior Achievement of Central Illinois inspires and prepares young people to succeed in the global economy. Our volunteer-delivered, experiential programs give students knowledge and skills in financial literacy, work readiness and…
is a not-for-profit organization designed to deliver practical, relevant and essential professional development for today's school leaders. The intent of the various programs is to provide standards-based, results-driven leadership…
Limitless space institute is a non-profit organization whose mission is to inspire and educate the next generation to travel beyond our solar system and to research and develop enabling technologies. lsi advances the pursuit of relevant…
Our mission is to enhance the skills, connections and knowledge of emerging and established leaders, enabling them to better serve in our communities, workplaces and organizations.
The Organization's mission is to provide leadership training, education & personal development opportunities for Latino youths, & to foster awareness & participation in responsible leadership in a global & democratic society.
To promote the process of scientific inquiry as a vehicle for learning. We believe that most learners acquire and retain new knowledge most effectively when it derives from firsthand experience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Challenger Learning Center of Orleans Niagara and Erie Counties and the most unlike its peers is The Fund for American Studies. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 19 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 Junior Achievement of Western New York ↗
- Who funds Fuel Foundation ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds LOCKPORT LOCKS HERITAGE DISTRICT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Challenger Sports League Inc ↗
- Who funds LOCKPORT ROBOTICS INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF ORLEANS NIAGARA AND ERIE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds THE READING LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds OLD FORT NIAGARA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds LOCKPORT CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
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: Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Reid Family Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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