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Mark and Maura Rampolla Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$31k
Granted FY2018
10
Grants FY2018
8
Organizations funded FY2018
25%
First-time grantees FY2018
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100% of Mark and Maura Rampolla Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Mark and Maura Rampolla Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $31k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

7
’17
8
’18
2
’19
0
’20

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2018
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2018
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 8
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
5
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 25% of the organizations Mark and Maura Rampolla Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20188$31k25%
FY20177$30kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Philanthropy$340kYouth Development$25kEducation$24kHealth$11kRecreation & Sports$10kArts & Culture$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kCommunity Improvement$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Homeboy Industries$25,00030%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$15,0002n/a
Northwestern University$10,00020%
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles$6,00020%
Marquette University$5,00010%
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Public Health Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Inner-City Arts$4,00020%
Social Justice Partners Los Angeles$2,50010%
Catholic Relief Services$2,0002n/a
Grameen America Inc$1,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mark and Maura Rampolla Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHomeboy Industries: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Los Angeles: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Public Health Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInner-City Arts: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSocial Justice Partners Los Angeles: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGrameen America Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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Find your warmest path to Mark and Maura Rampolla 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.

About Mark and Maura Rampolla Foundation

How much does Mark and Maura Rampolla Foundation give?
Mark and Maura Rampolla Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $31,000 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Mark and Maura Rampolla Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Philanthropy (82%), Youth Development (6%), Education (6%).
Who are Mark and Maura Rampolla Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Homeboy Industries ($25k), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($15k), Northwestern University ($10k).
Does Mark and Maura Rampolla Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mark and Maura Rampolla Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Mark and Maura Rampolla Foundation based?
Mark and Maura Rampolla Foundation is based in DE.

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 12 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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