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Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation at a glance

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Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$337k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$5.6MPublic Benefit$2.5MHealth$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.9MInternational$1.8MArts & Culture$1.3MCommunity Improvement$1.1MHuman Services$1.1MOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k28 grants · $731k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $952k
  • $250k+1 grant · $337k
$26,477
Median grant
6
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$336,733
JERUSALEM FOUNDATION$168,367
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA$168,367
CIVIC NATION$100,000
CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK$100,000
LA VEGA PIRATES EDUCATION FOUNDATION$60,000
WACO FAMILY MEDICINE$55,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS$50,605
TEXAS APPLESEED$50,000
LONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE$50,000
TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
LONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE$50,000
CARITAS OF WACO$47,500
CIVICLEX INCORPORATED$45,550
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 (FY17–25, $685k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOL: $50k → 10%DETROIT REVIVAL ENGAGING AMERICAN MUSLIMS: $15k → 21%OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOL: $25k → 10%YMCA OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $60k → 16%COMMUNITY DOULAS OF WACO: $50k → 16%CARITAS OF WACO: $71k → 16%CASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $55k → 16%CARITAS OF WACO: $48k → 16%CASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $46k → 16%CASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $45k → 16%CARITAS OF WACO: $30k → 16%CARITAS OF WACO: $20k → 16%CARITAS OF WACO: $15k → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS: $84k → 16%LA PUERTA: $25k → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS: $26k → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS: $20k → 16%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
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
DC
TX
FL
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 58 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
95

Total granted

$14M
$4.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+28%

Still filing today

71%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $742k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitCivil RightsOther
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

  • GW
    GREATER WACO COLLECTIVE IMPACT INITIATIVE
    4× · 2017–2023 · $672k · revenue +3% · 36% of their budget
  • TT
    THE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $665k · revenue +3%
  • TEXAS TRIBUNE INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $330k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • WA
    WACO ARTS FEST - DORIS MILLER MEMORIAL PROJECT
    one grant, 2019 · $300k
  • NC
    NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -53%
  • FH
    FAMILY HEALTH CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $129k
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
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
2
Progress Texas

Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.

Civil Rights
3
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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4
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
5
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
6
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights
7
Texas Association of Business

As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…

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8
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
9
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
10
Community Information Now

Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.

Community Improvement
11
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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12
Texans for Vaccine Choice

Texans for vaccine choice exists to directly influence vaccine choice public policy and legislation

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Rural Funders; the most unlike its peers is Dream of Detroit. 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

112 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. 112 of the 165 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
108/112
Grantees still filing
75/112
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN: $3,155,415 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTINHEART OF TEXAS MHMR: $654,580 · OtherHEART OF TEXAS MHMRUNITED JEWISH APPEAL: $577,565 · OtherWACO FAMILY MEDICINE: $555,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $450,000 · Other+100 more: $6,635,800 · Other+100 moreJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $1,682,848 · InternationalJERUSALEM…NEW JEWISH NARRATIVE INC: $65,000 · InternationalTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,105,283 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWIS…UNITED WAY OF WACO-MCLENNAN COUNTY: $300,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…WACO FOUNDATION: $225,000 · PhilanthropyWACO FOUN…+3 more: $60,000 · PhilanthropyTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $330,000 · EducationCivic Nation: $150,000 · EducationTRANSFORMATION WACO: $90,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $87,500 · EducationLa Vega Pirates Education Foundation: $60,000 · EducationADVOCACY CENTER FOR CRIME VICTIMS AND CHILDREN: $52,549 · EducationWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 · EducationTHE COVE - HEART OF TEXAS INC: $50,000 · EducationPitzer College: $50,000 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $47,853 · Education+12 more: $374,221 · EducationTHE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION: $665,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE WACO: $120,000 · Arts & CultureWACO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $104,416 · Arts & CultureCIVICLEX INCORPORATED: $85,550 · Arts & CultureWACO CIVIC THEATRE: $69,338 · Arts & CultureDR PEPPER MUSEUM AND FREE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $65,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $230,550 · Arts & CultureGREATER WACO COLLECTIVE IMPACT INITIATIVE: $671,542 · Community ImprovementTexas Appleseed: $125,000 · Community ImprovementWACO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $120,000 · Community ImprovementTALITHA KOUM INSTITUTE: $115,033 · Community ImprovementCEN-TEX HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMM: $100,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $50,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $43,229 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $305,000 · Civil RightsVOTERIDERS: $100,000 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE OF SEVENTY: $100,000 · Civil RightsNonprofit VOTE Inc: $100,000 · Civil RightsCIVIC INFLUENCERS INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsDEMOCRACY WORKS INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsFair Elections Center: $50,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $50,000 · Civil Rights
Other$12,028,360International$1,747,848Philanthropy$1,690,283Education$1,342,123Arts & Culture$1,339,854Community Improvement$1,224,804Civil Rights$805,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $1,682,848 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,105,283 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER WACO COLLECTIVE IMPACT INITIATIVE: $671,542 over 4y, 36% of budgetTHE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION: $665,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $330,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $328,605 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $305,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WACO-MCLENNAN COUNTY: $300,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetLONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $295,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetWACO FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCARITAS OF WACO: $183,498 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCenter for Public Policy Priorities: $175,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetGREATER WACO LEGAL SERVICES: $172,963 over 3y, 54% of budgetCivic Nation: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP: $150,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $145,722 over 3y, 11% of budgetAmerican Gateways: $138,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $130,973 over 2y, 31% of budgetTexas Appleseed: $125,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWACO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $120,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetCREATIVE WACO: $120,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetTALITHA KOUM INSTITUTE: $115,033 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetWACO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $104,416 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetVOTERIDERS: $100,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMITTEE OF SEVENTY: $100,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNonprofit VOTE Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetUNBOUND NOW: $97,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $87,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCIVICLEX INCORPORATED: $85,550 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN DOOR PRESCHOOL: $75,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $75,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetWACO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $70,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetWACO CIVIC THEATRE: $69,338 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetPUBLIC AGENDA INC: $65,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNEW JEWISH NARRATIVE INC: $65,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetDR PEPPER MUSEUM AND FREE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $65,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetWACO FAMILY YMCA: $60,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWACO ROWING CLUB INC: $60,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetVolunteers of America Northern New England: $60,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetADVOCACY CENTER FOR CRIME VICTIMS AND CHILDREN: $52,549 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIVIC INFLUENCERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Doulas of Waco: $50,000 over 1y, 43% 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.

  • Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WACO COLLECTIVE IMPACT INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds THE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WACO-MCLENNAN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds LONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds WACO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CARITAS OF WACO ↗
  • Who funds Center for Public Policy Priorities ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WACO LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Civic Nation ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds American Gateways ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds Texas Appleseed ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds WACO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds CREATIVE WACO ↗
  • Who funds TALITHA KOUM INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds WACO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VOTERIDERS ↗
  • Who funds COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY ↗
  • Who funds CEN-TEX HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMM ↗

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.

Cooper FoundationWaco FoundationBaylor UniversityUnited Way of Waco-Mc…Meadows Foundation IncSt David's FoundationMargaret Cb & S Spenc…Ascension ProvidenceClifton FoundationEpiscopal Health Foun…Austin Community Foun…The Fentress Foundati…
Cooper FoundationTX61.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cooper Foundation · Waco Foundation · Baylor University · United Way of Waco-McLennan County · Meadows Foundation Inc · St David's Foundation · Margaret Cb & S Spencer N Brown Foundation Inc · Ascension Providence · Clifton Foundation · Episcopal Health Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Fentress 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 Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Merrimack College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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.
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Find your warmest path to Bernard & Audre Rapoport 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 165 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home