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The Reis 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.

$3.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$280k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$4.3MEnvironment$3.8MPhilanthropy$2.1MArts & Culture$1.6MHealth$816kPublic Benefit$799kEducation$751kCommunity Improvement$745kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $255k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $3.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $530k
$50,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Proteus Fund$280,000
Groundswell Fund$250,000
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights$200,000
Advancement Project$200,000
League of Women Voters Education Fund$200,000
National Immigration Law Center$200,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors$200,000
EarthJustice$200,000
Native American Rights Fund$200,000
Common Cause Education Foundation$200,000
NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund$200,000
Chautauqua Foundation$145,000
Humboldt Area Foundation$135,000
If When How$100,000
National Network of Abortion Funds$100,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Internet Archive: $50k → 10%MOASH: $10k → 16%Huckleberry Youth Programs Inc: $8k → 10%FIRN: $5k → 6%FIRN: $5k → 6%Birth Companion Community Center: $28k → 10%Birth Companion Community Center: $13k → 10%ReMake: $10k → 10%Nature Rights Council: $5k → 18%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NC
SC
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 84 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

84 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
94

Total granted

$13M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+30%

Still filing today

75%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $690k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentCivil RightsInternationalEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • GF
    Groundswell Fund
    6× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +65%
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    6× · 2017–2025 · $800k · revenue +82%
  • NA
    NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • AF
    Advancement Fund
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • E
    EDF
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
3
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
4
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
5
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
6
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
7
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
8
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

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9
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
10
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
11
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
12
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Foundation of California; the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. 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

152 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. 152 of the 208 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
150/152
Grantees still filing
91/152
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Common Cause Education Foundation: $400,000 · OtherCommon Cause Education FoundationLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $375,000 · OtherLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under La…Advancement Project: $300,000 · OtherPROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC: $285,000 · OtherWomen's Earth and Climate Action Network: $260,000 · Other+114 more: $5,097,000 · Other+114 moreGroundswell Fund: $1,259,000 · PhilanthropyGroundswell FundHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION: $441,500 · PhilanthropyHUMBOLDT AREA FOU…Silicon Valley Community Foundation: $250,000 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Co…CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC: $205,000 · PhilanthropyCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDA…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILA…CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND: $100,000 · Philanthropy+6 more: $71,000 · PhilanthropyEARTHJUSTICE: $800,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICEENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $500,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DE…MID KLAMATH WATERSHED COUNCIL: $313,000 · EnvironmentMID KLAMATH WATE…SOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC: $301,000 · EnvironmentSOUTH COAST BOTA…350ORG: $237,500 · Environment350ORGNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $200,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK…+9 more: $160,000 · Environment+9 moreNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $600,000 · Civil RightsNATIVE AMERI…NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $600,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMM…NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $325,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL …IFWHENHOW: $200,000 · Civil RightsIFWHENHOW+9 more: $139,000 · Civil Rights+9 moreBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $500,000 · Arts & CultureBOREALIS P…United States Artists Inc: $240,000 · Arts & CultureUnited Sta…Alliance for California Traditional Arts: $150,000 · Arts & CultureAlliance f…PRO PUBLICA INC: $115,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLIC…ARENA PLAYERS INC: $76,000 · Arts & CultureROOT CAUSE RESEARCH CENTER INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureSTREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE EAMES INSTITUTE: $75,000 · Arts & Culture+17 more: $367,000 · Arts & Culture+17 morePROTEUS FUND INC: $465,000 · EducationHealth Connected: $340,000 · EducationCornell University: $160,000 · EducationLATINOS FOR EDUCATION INC: $75,000 · EducationCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT: $50,000 · EducationThe Education Trust Inc: $50,000 · EducationSOUTHERN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Education+5 more: $28,000 · EducationCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $550,000 · AnimalsTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $100,000 · Animals+1 more: $5,000 · Animals
Other$6,717,000Philanthropy$2,626,500Environment$2,511,500Civil Rights$1,864,000Arts & Culture$1,673,000Education$1,218,000Animals$655,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGroundswell Fund: $1,259,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $800,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $600,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $600,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $550,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $500,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $500,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $465,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION: $441,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $375,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHealth Connected: $340,000 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $325,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMID KLAMATH WATERSHED COUNCIL: $313,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC: $301,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetPROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC: $285,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetWomen's Earth and Climate Action Network: $260,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc: $240,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budget350ORG: $237,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC: $205,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA: $200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMASS DESIGN GROUP LTD: $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetIFWHENHOW: $200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $200,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY INSTITUTE: $180,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetCornell University: $160,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIDEOORG: $155,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAlliance for California Traditional Arts: $150,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCHANGE LABS: $125,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $115,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $105,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOWEESTA CORPORATION: $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCompanies for Causes: $95,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetEducation For Just Peace in Middle East: $85,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetPUBLIC KNOWLEDGE: $78,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetARENA PLAYERS INC: $76,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetROOT CAUSE RESEARCH CENTER INC: $75,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetSTREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC: $75,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE EAMES INSTITUTE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLATINOS FOR EDUCATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $62,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $55,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds Groundswell Fund ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ↗
  • Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ↗
  • Who funds Health Connected ↗
  • Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MID KLAMATH WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Women's Earth and Climate Action Network ↗
  • Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds United States Artists Inc ↗
  • Who funds 350ORG ↗
  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds MASS DESIGN GROUP LTD ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds IFWHENHOW ↗
  • Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds IDEOORG ↗
  • Who funds Alliance for California Traditional Arts ↗
  • Who funds CHANGE LABS ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗

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 San Francisco FoundationCA31.7× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The California Endowment · Humboldt Area Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc

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 Reis Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Reis Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Howard County Arts Council: 9% of income from government
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
37report 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Reis Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 208 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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