· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $690k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GFGroundswell Fund6× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +65%
EARTHJUSTICE6× · 2017–2025 · $800k · revenue +82%- NANATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC5× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $100k
- AFAdvancement Fundone grant, 2021 · $100k
- EEDFone 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.
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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,…
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.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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,…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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.
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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