· Private foundation
Will J Reid 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $167k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $511k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOORE INSTITUTE FOR PPR | $100,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF HUMAN KN | $70,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS | $55,000 |
| LONG BEACH BLAST | $50,000 |
| INTERVAL HOUSE | $50,000 |
| CAMP FIRE ANGELES | $40,000 |
| CAMP FIRE ANGELES | $40,000 |
| LONG BEACH ORGANIC INC | $35,500 |
| HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $35,000 |
| MOORE INSITITUE FOR PPR | $30,000 |
| REDLANDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| MUSEUM OF REDLANDS | $25,000 |
| REDLANDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $24,500 |
| THE OCEAN FOUNDATION | $23,500 |
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, $650k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 17 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS8× · 2017–2024 · $531k · revenue +3%
- CFCAMP FIRE ANGELES5× · 2020–2024 · $415k · revenue +33%
- LBLong Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- HPHAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $40k
- NANATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +93%
- LBLONG BEACH AREA BOY SCOUTSone grant, 2019 · $35k
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.
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,…
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…
The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
The mission of fresh approach is to create long-term change in local food systems by connecting california communities with healthy food from california farmers and expanding knowledge about food and nutrition.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We envision a world that nourishes all people, local economies, and the living earth.
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Action for Youth and the most unlike its peers is Grassroots Recycling Network 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
125 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. 125 of the 205 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today ↗
- Who funds ALGALITA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH ORGANIC INC ↗
- Who funds The Ocean Foundation ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds Kahilu Theatre Foundation ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY ↗
- Who funds Family Service Association of Redlands ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FARMWORKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds MONICA ROS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of the East Valley ↗
- Who funds REDLANDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAIKOLOA DRY FOREST INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER OF WHOLEBEING ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds INTERVAL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY STUDENT COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA ↗
- Who funds KANU O KA AINA LEARNING OHANA ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF LONG BEACH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMENSHELTER OF LONG BEACH ↗
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: Dorrance Family Foundation · Long Beach Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · California Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · The California Endowment · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The San Francisco Foundation
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 Will J Reid 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New England Forestry Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
- Silent Spring Institute Inc — 12% 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.