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The Reams Foundation

Name: The Reams Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

80
grants reported: $7.2M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $60,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Stand Together Chamber of Commerce4 grants · $1.6M
Ed Choice4 grants · $1.6M
Institute for Justice4 grants · $460,000
Foundation for Economic Education4 grants · $450,000
Mackinac Center for Public Policy4 grants · $430,000
Goldwater Institute4 grants · $390,000
State Policy Network4 grants · $380,000
Certell4 grants · $220,000
Atlas Network4 grants · $220,000
Reason4 grants · $200,000

Giving over time

$1.8M

2022

$1.8M

2023

$1.5M

2024

$2.0M

2025

Grant history

All 80 reported grants, largest first.

$565,000
Ed Choice · Indianapolis, IN · 2022
General
$460,000
Ed Choice · Indianapolis, IN · 2025
General
$460,000
Stand Together Chamber of Commerce · Arlington, VA · 2025
General
$400,000
Stand Together Chamber of Commerce · Arlington, VA · 2024
General
$400,000
Stand Together Chamber of Commerce · Arlington, VA · 2023
General
$350,000
Ed Choice · Indianapolis, IN · 2023
General
$350,000
Stand Together Chamber of Commerce · Arlington, VA · 2022
General
$210,000
Ed Choice · Indianapolis, IN · 2024
General
$130,000
Institute for Justice · Arlington, VA · 2025
General
$130,000
Institute for Justice · Arlington, VA · 2023
General
$120,000
Foundation for Economic Education · Atlanta, GA · 2025
General
$120,000
Foundation for Economic Education · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General
$120,000
Mackinac Center for Public Policy · Midland, MI · 2023
General
$120,000
Foundation for Economic Education · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General
$110,000
Goldwater Institute · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
General
$110,000
Institute for Justice · Arlington, VA · 2022
General
$110,000
Mackinac Center for Public Policy · Midland, MI · 2022
General
$100,000
Goldwater Institute · Phoenix, AZ · 2025
General
$100,000
Libertas Network · Lehi, UT · 2025
General
$100,000
Mackinac Center for Public Policy · Midland, MI · 2025
General
$100,000
State Policy Network · Arlington, VA · 2025
General
$100,000
Libertas Network · Lehi, UT · 2024
General
$100,000
Mackinac Center for Public Policy · Midland, MI · 2024
General
$100,000
State Policy Network · Arlington, VA · 2023
General
$100,000
Goldwater Institute · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
General
$100,000
State Policy Network · Arlington, VA · 2022
General
$90,000
Foundation for Economic Education · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General
$90,000
Institute for Justice · Arlington, VA · 2024
General
$80,000
Goldwater Institute · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
General
$80,000
State Policy Network · Arlington, VA · 2024
General
$70,000
Fund for American Studies · Washington, DC · 2025
General
$60,000
Atlas Network · Arlington, VA · 2025
General
$60,000
Certell · Indianapolis, IN · 2025
General
$60,000
Leadership Institute · Arlington, VA · 2025
General
$60,000
Fund for American Studies · Washington, DC · 2024
General
$60,000
Leadership Institute · Arlington, VA · 2024
General
$60,000
Atlas Network · Arlington, VA · 2023
General
$60,000
Certell · Indianapolis, IN · 2023
General
$60,000
Fund for American Studies · Washington, DC · 2023
General
$60,000
Leadership Institute · Arlington, VA · 2023
General
$60,000
Libertas Institute · Lehi, UT · 2023
General
$50,000
Cato Institute · Washingon, DC · 2025
General
$50,000
Reason · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
General
$50,000
Students for Liberty · McLean, VA · 2025
General
$50,000
Atlas Network · Arlington, VA · 2024
General
$50,000
Cato Institute · Washingon, DC · 2024
General
$50,000
Certell · Indianapolis, IN · 2024
General
$50,000
Reason · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General
$50,000
Acton Institute · Grand Rapids, MI · 2023
General
$50,000
Cato Institute · Washingon, DC · 2023
General
$50,000
Reason · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General
$50,000
Atlas Network · Arlington, VA · 2022
General
$50,000
Cato Institute · Washingon, DC · 2022
General
$50,000
Certell · Indianapolis, IN · 2022
General
$50,000
Fire · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
General
$50,000
Reason · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
General
$40,000
Acton Institute · Grand Rapids, MI · 2025
General
$40,000
Acton Institute · Grand Rapids, MI · 2024
General
$40,000
Acton Institute · Grand Rapids, MI · 2022
General
$40,000
Hillsdale College · Hillsdale, MI · 2022
General
$40,000
Libertas Institute · Lehi, UT · 2022
General
$20,000
Students for Liberty · McLean, VA · 2024
General
$10,000
Allegan County Community Foundation · Allegan, MI · 2025
General
$10,000
Allegan County Community Foundation · Allegan, MI · 2024
General
$5,000
College of Charleston Foundation · Charleston, SC · 2025
General
$5,000
Healthy Lifestars · Phoenix, AZ · 2025
General
$5,000
College of Charleston Foundation · Charleston, SC · 2024
General
$5,000
Allegan County Community Foundation · Allegan, MI · 2023
General
$5,000
College of Charleston Foundation · Charleston, SC · 2023
General
$5,000
College of Charleston Foundation · Charleston, SC · 2022
General
$3,000
Healthy Lifestars · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
General
$3,000
Allegan County Community Foundation · Allegan, MI · 2022
General
$2,000
Healthy Lifestars · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
General
$2,000
Healthy Lifestars · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
General
$1,000
Michigan Maritime Museum · South Haven, MI · 2025
General
$1,000
Michigan Maritime Museum · South Haven, MI · 2024
General
$1,000
Tonto Verde Charity Roundup · Rio Verde, AZ · 2022
General
$0
Fire · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General
$0
Hillsdale College · Hillsdale, MI · 2023
General
$0
Tonto Verde Charity Roundup · Rio Verde, AZ · 2023
General

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.