Oregon · Nonprofit
REED INSTITUTE
REED INSTITUTE (Oregon) receives grants from 133 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,354,936 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($3,984,599). 98 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. REED INSTITUTE administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
REED INSTITUTE administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programREED INSTITUTE runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$27k
Recipients
1
Contributions on record
$28M
Donors on record
139
Payments out are 0.00x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared funders
- Edward Little High School Alumni as Portland Trust Co LLCportfolio match
- Conrad H & Anna B Gillen Scholarship Fundportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 37 funders to 64 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $2.8M.
33 of 133 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of REED INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 133 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
55% of REED INSTITUTE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $12M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 29 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 133 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 110 organizations that share your funders
- Edward Little High School Alumni as Portland Trust Co LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conrad H & Anna B Gillen Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arline P Padelford Scholarship Fund Sch9001portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cochran Gifford a Tr Uindportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committeeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Donald N Heath Scholarship Trust 18361240portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frederic E Skillings Trust Uwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Helen C S Botsford Tuwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Burton and Wemple Scholarship Fund Uwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Everett & Marion Mitchell Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding REED INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24.6M on record.
- National Science Foundation$15.5M
- Department of Education$4.3M
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.6M
- Department of Energy$787k
- Department of Agriculture$202k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$169k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- David Eddings Fund LLC · partnership
- Grayco Resources Inc · corp_trust
- Charitable remainder trust (27) · corp_trust
- Pooled Income Fund (1) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REED INSTITUTE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds REED INSTITUTE?
- REED INSTITUTE (Oregon) receives grants from 133 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,354,936 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($3,984,599). 98 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. REED INSTITUTE administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does REED INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 133 organizations giving $27,354,936 in grants to REED INSTITUTE, 98 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REED INSTITUTE?
- Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $3,984,599 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REED INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 133funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing