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Kenneth Rainin 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.

$22M
Granted FY2024still arriving
294
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$1.3M
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.

Education$33MArts & Culture$28MHealth$13MPhilanthropy$3.4MScience & Tech$1.9MHuman Services$1.4MCommunity Improvement$901kSocial Science$801kOther$0
02FY2024 · 294 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k64 grants · $225k
  • $10k–50k134 grants · $2.9M
  • $50k–250k74 grants · $7.6M
  • $250k+22 grants · $11M
$25,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$642M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROXIE THEATER$1,300,000
COMMUNITY ARTS STABILIZATION TRUST$1,000,000
COMMUNITY ARTS STABILIZATION TRUST$1,000,000
EDUCATION FOR CHANGE$900,000
OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$832,432
SAN FRANCISCO FILM SOCIETY$750,000
UNITED STATES ARTISTS INC$600,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$500,000
TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$500,000
CENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM$400,000
ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$380,000
CALIFORNIANS FOR THE ARTS$318,000
TEACHING WELL INC$315,000
REACH UNIVERSITY$300,000
OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$264,156
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 (FY20–24, $5.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC: $10k → 10%PINE STREET INN INC: $12k → 16%NURSING HEART INC: $10k → 11%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $250k → 22%LAS TRAMPAS SCHOOL INC: $1k → 9%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $1k → 9%UNQUIET PROFESSIONAL: $10k → 9%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC: $10k → 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $90k → 22%LAS TRAMPAS SCHOOL INC: $1k → 9%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC: $10k → 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $20k → 22%LAS TRAMPAS SCHOOL INC: $1k → 9%CAST INC: $500 → 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $20k → 22%COMMUNITY ARTS STABILIZATION: $1.0M → 8%GIVE ONE DOLLAR A DAY: $10k → 9%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 22%COMMUNITY ARTS STABILIZATION: $1.0M → 8%SPM DISABILITY JUSTICE FUND: $15k → 12%COMMUNITY ARTS STABILIZATION: $1.0M → 8%COMMUNITY ARTS STABILIZATION: $1.0M → 8%NURSING HEART INC: $5k → 14%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $10k → 10%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $5k → 10%LAS TRAMPAS SCHOOL INC: $500 → 9%VILLAGE-CONNECT INC: $10k → 10%VILLAGE-CONNECT INC: $10k → 10%BANANAS INCORPORATED: $100k → 10%PARENT VOICES OAKLAND: $20k → 10%BANANAS INCORPORATED: $250 → 10%BANANAS INCORPORATED: $250 → 10%BANANAS INCORPORATED: $250 → 10%PARENT VOICES OAKLAND: $100k → 10%PARENT VOICES OAKLAND: $40k → 10%PARENT VOICES OAKLAND: $20k → 10%ANNIECANNONS INC: $5k → 10%BLACK ORGANIZING PROJECT INC: $3k → 10%FILIPINO-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%FILIPINO-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $108k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $100k → 10%CLAUSEN HOUSE INC: $10k → 10%COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $5k → 10%COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $1k → 10%CLAUSEN HOUSE INC: $500 → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $5k → 10%AFFECT REAL CHANGE INC: $5k → 10%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

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CA
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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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 65% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 69%.

Kenneth Rainin Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$68M · 204 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

204 repeat relationships: 124 still active in FY2024, 80 since wound down; 69 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

204
165

Total granted

$68M
$6.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+7%

Still filing today

86%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.1M 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity 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

  • SF
    San Francisco Film Society
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +40% · 31% of their budget
  • EF
    EDUCATION FOR CHANGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +42%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST
    3× · 2020–2022 · $4.0M · revenue +6% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • SO
    SEEDS OF LEARNING LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $344k
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $284k · revenue +31%
  • OF
    OAKLAND FILM CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
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.

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Marin Open Studios

Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…

Arts & Culture
2
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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3
Los Angeles Performance Practice

As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…

Arts & Culture
4
On the Boards

On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.

—
5
San Francisco Performances Inc

SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.

Arts & Culture
6
Center for the Art of Translation

Bay Area community and increases access to literature locally and globally. The Centers publications, events, and educational programming build audiences for literature in translation, enrich the library of vital literary works, nurture…

Arts & Culture
7
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
8
Contra-Tiempo

Contra-tiempo is a bold, multilingual los angeles-based activist dance theater company creating physically intense and politically astute performance work that moves audience to imagine what is possible. We create a new physical, visual…

Arts & Culture
9
Bayview-Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology Dba Baycat

BAYCAT addresses racial, gender and economic inequity by creating powerful, authentic media while diversifying the creative industry. Through the education and employment of low-income youth, young people of color, and young women in the…

Community Improvement
10
San Francisco Arts Education Project

The San Francisco Arts Education Project provides participatory experiences in the arts to the children of San Francisco so they are better equipped to make use of their creative abilities in all aspects of their lives.

Arts & Culture
11
Movimiento De Arte Y Cultura Latino Americana De San Jose Incorporated

MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana is an inclusive contemporary arts space grounded in the Chicano/Latino experience that incubates new visual, literary and performance art in order to engage people in civic dialogue and…

Arts & Culture
12
Opera Parallle

Opera Parallle presents compelling performances of contemporary operas with high musical and dramatic standards, embracing modern aesthetics, creative use of technology, and social relevance as essential to the future of the art form.…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Cultural Power; the most unlike its peers is Big Smiles. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

382 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 382 of the 451 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
77
Early backer (in before they grew)
375/382
Grantees still filing
236/382
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $6,490,588 · OtherOAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTSan Francisco Film Society: $4,725,000 · OtherSan Francisco Film SocietyCARES FOR LEARNING: $4,069,131 · OtherCARES FOR LEARNINGCOMMUNITY ARTS STABILIZATION TRUST: $2,000,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ARTS STABILIZATION TRUSTUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $1,422,141 · Other+72 more: $16,083,787 · Other+72 moreEDUCATION FOR CHANGE: $4,491,000 · EducationEDUCATION FOR CHANGEASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $1,610,000 · EducationASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLSTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $990,405 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $975,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $875,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $827,842 · EducationOakland Literacy Coalition Inc: $813,250 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $775,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $775,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $750,000 · EducationThe Oakland REACH: $725,000 · EducationThe Teaching Well Inc: $716,390 · Education+26 more: $6,821,441 · Education+26 moreUnited States Artists Inc: $2,961,750 · Arts & CultureUnited States Arti…Center for Cultural Innovation: $1,450,000 · Arts & CultureCenter for Cultura…The Roxie Theater: $1,325,000 · Arts & CultureThe Roxie TheaterDANCERS GROUP: $1,035,385 · Arts & CultureDANCERS GROUPIntersection for the Arts: $512,690 · Arts & CultureCalifornians for the Arts: $488,500 · Arts & CultureSILICON VALLEY CREATES: $480,000 · Arts & Culture+44 more: $4,960,792 · Arts & Culture+44 moreCOMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST: $4,000,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $390,000 · Human ServicesMujeres Unidas y Activas: $212,500 · Human ServicesPARENT VOICES OAKLAND: $180,000 · Human Services+2 more: $204,650 · Human ServicesChildren's Hospital Corporation: $545,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $499,999 · HealthLincoln: $295,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $283,927 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $250,000 · HealthBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA: $250,000 · HealthEast Bay Agency for Children: $238,000 · HealthWEILL CORNELL IMAGING AT NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN: $225,000 · HealthFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $200,000 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $150,000 · HealthRush University Medical Center: $150,000 · Health+3 more: $225,000 · HealthROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $555,250 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $540,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $400,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER: $350,000 · PhilanthropyNorthern California Grantmakers: $252,250 · PhilanthropyEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION: $190,000 · PhilanthropyINEVITABLE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCouncil on Foundations Inc: $93,500 · Philanthropy+3 more: $199,170 · PhilanthropyLOTUS BLOOM: $610,000 · Youth DevelopmentMindful Life Project: $283,000 · Youth DevelopmentFamily Engagement Lab: $60,000 · Youth Development
Other$34,790,647Education$21,145,328Arts & Culture$13,214,117Human Services$4,987,150Health$3,311,926Philanthropy$2,680,170Youth Development$953,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSan Francisco Film Society: $4,725,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetEDUCATION FOR CHANGE: $4,491,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCARES FOR LEARNING: $4,069,131 over 4y, 75% of budgetCOMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST: $4,000,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc: $2,961,750 over 5y, 10% of budgetASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $1,610,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Cultural Innovation: $1,450,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetThe Roxie Theater: $1,325,000 over 2y, 60% of budgetDANCERS GROUP: $1,035,385 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $990,405 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $975,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $875,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $827,842 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOakland Literacy Coalition Inc: $813,250 over 5y, 31% of budgetNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $801,165 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $775,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $775,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCounterPulse: $751,300 over 4y, 39% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $750,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Oakland REACH: $725,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetThe Teaching Well Inc: $716,390 over 3y, 21% of budgetCornell University: $639,111 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOTUS BLOOM: $610,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $555,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $550,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $545,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $540,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $513,035 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIntersection for the Arts: $512,690 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING: $511,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $499,999 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLead Liberated: $497,500 over 4y, 23% of budgetCalifornians for the Arts: $488,500 over 4y, 21% of budgetSILICON VALLEY CREATES: $480,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $450,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASSOC OF BLACK GASTROENTEROLOGISTS: $431,028 over 2y, 18% of budgetCENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM: $402,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $390,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER: $350,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetThe Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated: $330,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetLocal Color: $330,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $326,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFamilies in Action for Quality Education: $305,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetREACH UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $299,768 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln: $295,000 over 3y, 0.4% 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 San Francisco Film Society ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION FOR CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds CARES FOR LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds United States Artists Inc ↗
  • Who funds ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds Center for Cultural Innovation ↗
  • Who funds The Roxie Theater ↗
  • Who funds DANCERS GROUP ↗
  • Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Oakland Literacy Coalition Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds CounterPulse ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Oakland REACH ↗
  • Who funds The Teaching Well Inc ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds LOTUS BLOOM ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Intersection for the Arts ↗
  • Who funds TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Lead Liberated ↗

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.

The Zellerbach Family…Phyllis C Wattis Foun…Walter and Elise Haas…Fleishhacker Foundati…East Bay Community Fo…The William & Flora H…The San Francisco Fou…Center for Cultural I…Gerbode FoundationThe Sam Mazza Foundat…The Map Fund IncThe Oakland Public Ed…
The Zellerbach Family FoundationCA170.1× affinity92 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · Fleishhacker Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Center for Cultural Innovation · Gerbode Foundation · The Sam Mazza Foundation · The Map Fund Inc · The Oakland Public Education Fund

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 Kenneth Rainin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenneth Rainin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
64report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Kenneth Rainin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kenneth Rainin 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 451 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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