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The Walter Reade Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Walter Reade Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$61k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$6k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$64kEducation$55kFood & Nutrition$28kArts & Culture$24kYouth Development$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$21kHealth$21kCivil Rights$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$800k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE$5,700
FOOD EDUCATION FUND$5,500
GIFFORD'S LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE$5,000
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$5,000
CITY HARVEST$5,000
JFLA JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATES$5,000
ARDEA ARTS$2,500
BRENTWOOD SCHOOL$2,500
FIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM$2,000
BARNARD COLLEGE$2,000
CONCORDIA CHAMBER PLAYERS$1,500
THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM$1,200
JON BON JOVI SOUL FOUNDATION$1,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$1,000
THE SANDY HOOK FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ANOTHER ROUND ANOTHER RALLY: $1k → 11%805UNDOCUFUND: $1k → 14%EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC: $300 → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $150 → 17%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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$255k · 42 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
31

Total granted

$255k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+27%

Still filing today

81%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BARNARD COLLEGE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $27k · revenue +16%
  • BS
    BRENTWOOD SCHOOL
    6× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +43%
  • FE
    FOOD EDUCATION FUND INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • CT
    CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +9%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FUNDS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • LI
    LEE INITIATIVE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -62%
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
5
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
The James Beard Foundation Inc

The james beard foundation believes in a vibrant, equitable, and sustainable independent restaurant industry that stands as a cornerstone of american culture, community, and economy - and drives towards a better food system. the james…

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7
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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10
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
11
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
12
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expanded Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Everwalk. 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

65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 90 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/65
Grantees still filing
46/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE: $62,159 · OtherWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLEJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE: $6,000 · OtherJFLA JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATES: $5,000 · OtherSOLEBURY SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherCITY HARVEST INC: $6,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Other+53 more: $58,950 · Other+53 moreBARNARD COLLEGE: $27,200 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGEBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $19,500 · EducationBRENTWOOD SCHOOLFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC: $17,500 · EducationFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC+1 more: $166 · EducationTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $5,700 · Arts & CultureCONCORDIA CHAMBER PLAYERS: $4,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $2,740 · Arts & CultureARDEA ARTS INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,620 · Arts & CultureTHE SANDY HOOK FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCOUNT BASIE THEATRE INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureDUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES: $17,000 · Youth DevelopmentCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 · HealthPHASE ONE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · HealthBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $1,200 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 · HealthULMAN FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · HealthWILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION: $600 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $12,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,200 · InternationalBest Buddies International Inc: $500 · InternationalGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $10,500 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $2,750 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 · Civil Rights
Other$149,109Education$64,366Arts & Culture$21,060Youth Development$17,000Health$14,900International$14,700Civil Rights$14,500

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 budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $27,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC: $17,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES: $17,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $5,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOLEBURY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $4,650 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORDIA CHAMBER PLAYERS: $4,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetPHASE ONE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $2,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $2,740 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetA WOMAN'S NATION: $2,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARDEA ARTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEE INITIATIVE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,620 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJON BON JOVI SOUL FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNT BASIE THEATRE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA COCINA: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANNE SAXELBY LEGACY FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA SECOND U FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO TRIAL LAWYERS CARE: $500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAG HARBOR PARTNERSHIP INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundAmg Charitable Gift F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Tides FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…The New York Communit…The Pfizer Foundation…American Express Foun…California Community …Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
Jewish Communal FundNY16× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Tides Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Count Basie Theatre Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Classroom Champions Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
13report 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 Walter Reade Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Walter Reade 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 90 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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