Funding search · EIN 043542100 · Boston, MA

The Reeder Foundation

Name: The Reeder 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.

58
grants reported: $18.5M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $250,000
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.

Year Up5 grants · $3.8M
Merit America4 grants · $3.0M
Social Finance4 grants · $2.4M
Duet5 grants · $1.6M
Greenlight Fund5 grants · $1.3M
Teach for America4 grants · $1.1M
More Than Words5 grants · $750,000
New Profit1 grant · $540,000
Steppingstone Foundation3 grants · $510,000
Postsecondary Commission1 grant · $500,000

Giving over time

$3.1M

2022

$6.0M

2023

$4.4M

2024

$5.0M

2025

Grant history

All 58 reported grants, largest first.

$1.5M
Social Finance · Boston, MA · 2025
Unrestricted
$1.0M
Merit America · Washington, DC · 2025
Unrestricted
$1.0M
Merit America · Washington, DC · 2024
Unrestricted
$800,000
Year Up · Boston, MA · 2024
Unrestricted
$800,000
Year Up · Boston, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$800,000
Year Up · Boston, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$800,000
Year Up · Boston, MA · 2022
Unrestricted
$600,000
Year Up · Boston, MA · 2025
Unrestricted
$540,000
New Profit · Boston, MA · 2022
Unrestricted
$500,000
Postsecondary Commission · Boston, MA · 2024
Unrestricted
$500,000
Merit America · Washington, DC · 2023
Unrestricted
$500,000
Merit America · Washington, DC · 2023
Unrestricted
$500,000
Fishtank Learning · Brighton, MA · 2022
Unrestricted
$400,000
Social Finance · Boston, MA · 2024
Unrestricted
$350,000
Duet · Boston, MA · 2025
Unrestricted
$350,000
Duet · Boston, MA · 2024
Unrestricted
$300,000
Greenlight Fund · Boston, MA · 2025
Unrestricted
$300,000
Teach for America · Boston, MA · 2025
Unrestricted
$300,000
Greenlight Fund · Boston, MA · 2024
Unrestricted
$300,000
Duet · Boston, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$300,000
Duet · Boston, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$250,000
Friends of Pioneer Charter School · Everett, MA · 2025
Unrestricted
$250,000
Teach for America · Boston, MA · 2024
Unrestricted
$250,000
Greenlight Fund · Boston, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$250,000
Greenlight Fund · Boston, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$250,000
Social Finance · Boston, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$250,000
Social Finance · Boston, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$250,000
Teach for America · Boston, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$250,000
Teach for America · Boston, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$250,000
Duet · Boston, MA · 2022
Unrestricted
$250,000
Teach for America - Ma Region · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$200,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters Eastern Ma · Boston, MA · 2025
Unrestricted
$200,000
Greenlight Fund · Boston, MA · 2022
Unrestricted
$170,000
Steppingstone Foundation · Boston, MA · 2025
Unrestricted
$170,000
Steppingstone Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024
Unrestricted
$170,000
Steppingstone · Boston, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$170,000
Steppingstone · Boston, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$170,000
Steppingstone Foundation · Boston, MA · 2022
Unrestricted
$150,000
Fishtank Learning · Brighton, MA · 2025
Unrestricted
$150,000
More Than Words · Waltham, MA · 2025
Unrestricted
$150,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters Eastern Ma · Boston, MA · 2024
Unrestricted
$150,000
Fishtank Learning · Brighton, MA · 2024
Unrestricted
$150,000
Focusing Philanthropy · Santa Monica, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$150,000
More Than Words · Waltham, MA · 2024
Unrestricted
$150,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts · Boston, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$150,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts · Boston, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$150,000
Cradles To Crayons · Newton, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$150,000
Cradles To Crayons · Newton, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$150,000
More Than Words · Waltham, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$150,000
More Than Words · Waltham, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$150,000
Cradles To Crayons · Newton, MA · 2022
Unrestricted
$150,000
More Than Words · Waltham, MA · 2022
Unrestricted
$50,000
Uncornered · Dorchester, MA · 2025
Unrestricted
$50,000
Uncornered · Dorchester, MA · 2024
Unrestricted
$40,000
Raising a Reader · Boston, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$40,000
Raising a Reader · Boston, MA · 2023
Unrestricted
$40,000
Raising a Reader · Boston, MA · 2022
Unrestricted
$15,000
Boston Uncornered · Dorchester, MA · 2022
Unrestricted

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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.