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Alexander and Suzanne Rhea Foundation at a glance

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Alexander and Suzanne Rhea 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.

$155k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Animals$500kInternational$175kFood & Nutrition$65kEducation$53kEnvironment$50kHuman Services$30kHealth$15kReligion$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Greenbrier Humane Society$100,000
Real Partners Uganda$25,000
GreenFaith$15,000
Southwest Harbor Public Library$5,000
WSS Community Food Pantry$5,000
CIS of Greenbrier County$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Robert Katende Initiative: $10k → 9%Center for Food Action: $5k → 7%Center for Food Action: $5k → 7%Center for Food Action: $5k → 7%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

ME
WA
NY
NJ
CT
CO
WV
MS
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$873k · 10 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$873k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
0%

Still filing today

70%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsInternationalEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • GC
    GREENBRIER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +36%
  • RP
    REAL PARTNERS UGANDA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $175k · revenue +56%
  • GI
    GREENFAITH INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • RK
    ROBERT KATENDE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +1%
  • CF
    CHILD FIRST INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • SO
    STAR OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -9%
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
Child and Family Resources Inc

Child & family resources focuses on children. we are a private, non-profit organization that creates and delivers programs and services for the community that support the development of children, and strengthen families.

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2
Home First - Interfaith Housing and Family Services

Home-first offers permanent solutions to homelessness by providing transitional housing and permanent housing, homelessness prevention assitance and support services to strengthen families and build commun

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3
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

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4
New Hope Family Services Inc

Adoption & pregnancy counseling at no cost or at a fee based on a predetermined schedule.

Human Services
5
FamilyWise Services

Strengthening families by promoting the safety, stability and wellbeing of children.

Health
6
Food Bank of Central New York

Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…

Food & Nutrition
7
Humane Animal Partners

Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…

Animals
8
Greenfield School

Operation of an independent, nonsectarian, co-educational college preparatory school serving students in preschool through grade twelve.

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9
Greenleaf Family Center

To strengthen families in our community through counseling, education, and support. greenleaf's core values are family, respect, integrity, interdependence, and excellence.

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10
Garden Preschool Coop Inc

Operate preschool

Human Services
11
New Garden Friends School Inc

Guided by quaker values, new garden friends school is committed to being an inclusive educational community that honors and develops each person's gifts.

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12
Cornerstone Family Programs

Cornerstone family programs is a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to strengthening communities by helping people build better lives.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nurse-Family Partnership; the most unlike its peers is Robert Katende Initiative. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREENBRIER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $500,000 · AnimalsGREENBRIER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYREAL PARTNERS UGANDA INC: $175,000 · InternationalREAL PARTNERS UGANDA I…WSS Community Food Pantry: $30,000 · OtherWSS Communit…SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY: $22,500 · OtherSOUTHWEST HA…Westside Food Pantry: $20,000 · OtherWestside Foo…Fund for the City of New York - CASA: $15,000 · OtherFund for the…CHILD FIRST INC: $5,000 · OtherSTAR OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $2,500 · OtherGREENFAITH INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentCommunities In Schools of Greenbrier County Inc: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY: $15,000 · Human ServicesROBERT KATENDE INITIATIVE: $10,000 · Human ServicesNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $15,000 · HealthST PAULS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $2,500 · Community Improvement
Animals$500,000International$175,000Other$100,000Environment$50,000Youth Development$30,000Human Services$25,000Health$15,000Community Improvement$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREENBRIER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $500,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetREAL PARTNERS UGANDA INC: $175,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetGREENFAITH INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCommunities In Schools of Greenbrier County Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY: $22,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD FIRST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST PAULS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $2,500 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Alexander and Suzanne Rhea Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alexander and Suzanne Rhea Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Alexander and Suzanne Rhea Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Alexander and Suzanne Rhea Foundation 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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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