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The Reo 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.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$36kReligion$31kEducation$9kAnimals$7kHealth$6kRecreation & Sports$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kInternational$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$388k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION$3,000
ASPCA$2,500
NAMI$2,500
SAVE THE CHILDREN$2,500
ANIMAL WELLNESS FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%ASPCA: $3k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $1k → 14%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $3k → 9%KOREAN ACADEMY OF COLORADO: $3k → 3%Wide Horizon: $2k → 7%Adventure Unlimited: $5k → 8%ECUMENICAL SOCIAL MINISTRIES: $15k → 9%ANIMAL WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%NAMI: $3k → 7%ASPCA: $1k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $1k → 14%KOREAN ACADEMY OF COLORADO: $1k → 3%KOREAN ACADEMY OF COLORADO: $5k → 8%Ecumenical Social Ministries: $15k → 9%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS: $1k → 7%KRCC: $10k → 9%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS: $500 → 7%ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS: $10k → 9%KRCC: $8k → 9%Rocky Mountain PBS: $5k → 9%First Church of Christ Scientist: $1k → 9%Rocky Mountain Music Alliance: $2k → 9%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$82k · 7 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$82k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+122%

Still filing today

71%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
HealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • KA
    KOREAN ACADEMY OF COLORADO INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $9k · revenue +50%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    3× · 2021–2025 · $4k · revenue +14%
  • NN
    NAMI National
    3× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +274%

Funded once

  • AU
    ADVENTURE UNLIMITEDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +122%
  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • WH
    WIDE HORIZON INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -16%
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
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
International Snow Leopard Trust

The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…

Animals
4
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
5
Colorado Nature League

To protect, conserve, and restore colorado's native wildlife and habitats. we champion science-based, innovative, collaborative solutions for managing colorado's iconic wildlife and biodiversity, protecting them from threats like habitat…

Environment
6
The International Dark-Sky Association Inc

Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.

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7
Sweet Farm Foundation

Sweet farm is the world's first nonprofit sanctuary to address the devastating impact that factory farming has on climate change from the perspective of animals, plants, and the planet. we must first understand how these pieces are…

Animals
8
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
9
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
10
American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign

The american wild horse campaign is the nation's leading conservation organization dedicated to preserving the freedom and habitat of wild horses and burros. through its initiatives in advocacy, conservation, land preservation, and legal…

Animals
11
Wildlife Alliance Inc

Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…

Animals
12
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Korean Academy of Colorado 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

9 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. 9 of the 16 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Ecumenical Social Ministries: $30,000 · OtherEcumenical Social MinistriesKRCC: $18,000 · OtherKRCCCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherANIMAL WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · OtherINTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS: $2,000 · Other+3 more: $3,500 · Other+3 moreROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN P…KOREAN ACADEMY OF COLORADO INC: $8,500 · EducationKOREAN AC…NAMI National: $4,000 · HealthWIDE HORIZON INC: $2,000 · HealthADVENTURE UNLIMITED: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $4,000 · AnimalsSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,500 · InternationalWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $2,000 · Environment
Other$59,000Arts & Culture$15,000Education$8,500Health$6,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Animals$4,000International$2,500Environment$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKOREAN ACADEMY OF COLORADO INC: $8,500 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetADVENTURE UNLIMITED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Reo Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Reo Foundation Inc. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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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How do I get to The Reo Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Reo 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 16 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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