· Private foundation
The Stu and Betsy Reese Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of The Stu and Betsy Reese Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NCH Center for Philanthropy | $15,000 |
| Bonefish Tarpon Trust | $10,000 |
| Faithcare | $10,000 |
| Joy of Giving | $5,000 |
| United Church of Marco Island | $5,000 |
| Josh Pallotta Fund | $5,000 |
| Lahey Health Institute of Advancement | $5,000 |
| Project Healing Waters | $5,000 |
| Judicial Watch | $5,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $5,000 |
| Harvest Hills Animal Shelter | $5,000 |
| Semper Fi Fund | $5,000 |
| Our Savior Lutheran Chruch Stone Ha | $3,000 |
| Atlantic Salmon Federation | $2,500 |
| Mount Washington Observatory | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +59% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- FIFAITHCARE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $102k · revenue +68%
- SFSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +56%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC7× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- AIAMIABLE INCORPORATEDone grant, 2021 · $10k
COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINICS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +101%- CFCOMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROWone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +15%
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.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
The organization's mission is to transform the lives of veterans by helping them save an at risk shelter dog or cat, and to end all animal homelessness in the us and enrich the lives of men and women who serve, and have served our country.…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
We protect and care for families in conflict zones.
Believing that when one person serves the whole family serves, Project Sanctuary takes a human-centered, solution-based approach to helping military families heal and move forward in life. Through innovative long-term programming focused…
Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Forest Animal Rescue protects wildlife by preserving natural habitats for the safe release of rehabilitated animals and the rehabilitation and release of black bears.
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
The mission of the corporation is to provide support for the war dogs of the united states military. the organization provides care packages to war dogs and their handlers serving overseas. the organization also provides support for…
Puppies behind bars trains incarcerated individuals to raise service dogs for wounded war veterans and first responders, facility dogs for police departments, and explosive-detecton canines for law enforcement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Faithcare Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 46 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 FAITHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HILLS ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds Joy of Giving Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds The Josh Pallotta Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds PIONEER VALLEY SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds FRYEBURG RESCUE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN UNION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds STONE HARBOR VOLUNTEER FIRE CO 1 ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds STONE HARBOR RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS 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: Collier Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Stu and Betsy Reese Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- Pioneer Valley Symphony Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Josh Pallotta Fund Inc — 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.