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Panta 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.

$75k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2023.

Philanthropy$9.2MEnvironment$2.1MArts & Culture$1.6MCivil Rights$1.5MCommunity Improvement$1.5MFood & Nutrition$843kPublic Benefit$355kInternational$347kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$75,015
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR THE ISLANDS OF OLD PROVIDENCE AND SANTA CATALINA INC$75,015
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $515k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEW YORK TAXI WORKERS ALLIANCE: $25k → 13%Massachusetts avenue project inc: $15k → 13%MORE IN COMMON INC: $50k → 17%MAKE THE ROAD STATES: $15k → 20%moore impact inc: $5k → 12%MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECTS INC: $15k → 13%pukuu cultural community services: $15k → 14%NATIVES OF ONE WIND INDIGEOUS ALLIANCE: $5k → 13%more in common: $50k → 17%tides center: $200k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $120k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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 earmarks the money.

About 43% of Panta Rhea Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Panta Rhea Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.8M · 54 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +2% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

54 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 53 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
93

Total granted

$6.8M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
0%

Still filing today

89%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • Earth Island Institute Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $395k · revenue +148%
  • PA
    Pesticide Action Network North America
    3× · 2020–2022 · $310k · revenue +14%
  • THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $282k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR RACE & THE ECONOMYATHENA CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
  • AC
    Action Center on Race & the Economy Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue +70%
  • CF
    CLIMA FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
2
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
3
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
4
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
5
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
6
Equitable Food Initiative

EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.

Human Services
7
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
8
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
9
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
Transformca dba Transform

Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.

Community Improvement
12
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alena Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Local Food System Organizat…Youth Development ServicesCommunity Arts CentersImmigrant Worker SupportWomen & Girls Leadership De…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Social Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr15%17%5–10yr20%28%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr13%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr11%58%35–55yr13%3%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/138
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,840

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 132 of the 165 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
128/132
Grantees still filing
66/132
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $6,685,140 · PhilanthropyMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONSolidaire Network Inc — $325,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $295,000 · Philanthropy+15 more — $769,000 · Philanthropy+15 morecollaborations teachers and artists inc — $622,700 · Othercollaborations teachers and …GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $282,000 · OtherGREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNIT…FOUNDATION FOR THE ISLANDS OF OLD PROVIDENCE AND SANTA CATALINA INC — $245,075 · OtherCENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS — $225,000 · OtherCENTER FOR RACE & THE ECONOMYATHENA CAMPAIGN — $200,000 · OtherFOOD CHAIN WORKERS ALLIANCE — $223,000 · OtherTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC — $165,000 · Other+69 more — $2,717,080 · Other+69 moreNEW VENTURE FUND — $560,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE F…Earth Island Institute Inc — $395,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island …GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $347,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREENG…Pesticide Action Network North America — $310,000 · EnvironmentPesticide Act…Solutions Project Inc — $250,000 · EnvironmentSolutions Pro…FRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $75,000 · Environment+9 more — $238,000 · Environment+9 moreTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $282,300 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTO…HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION — $275,010 · Community ImprovementHAWAII ALLI…MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $235,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT ST…INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $230,000 · Community ImprovementINQUIRING S…COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION — $175,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON COUN…PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE — $150,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S AC…BLACK FARMER FUND INC — $150,000 · Community ImprovementBLACK FARME…NDN COLLECTIVE INC — $100,000 · Community ImprovementNDN COLLECT…COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $75,000 · Community Improvement+6 more — $134,000 · Community Improvement+6 moreYERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $125,283 · Arts & CultureDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureThe Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation — $95,000 · Arts & CultureMAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION — $60,000 · Arts & CultureMESA REFUGE A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $60,000 · Arts & CultureKUMANO I KE ALA O MAKAWELI — $50,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureWHYHUNGER INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureRaizes Collective — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $102,500 · Arts & CultureAction Center on Race & the Economy Institute — $125,000 · Civil RightsCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $75,000 · Civil RightsSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE — $75,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $40,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC — $40,000 · Civil RightsUNDOCUBLACK NETWORK INC — $25,000 · Civil Rights+5 more — $50,000 · Civil RightsTIDES CENTER — $320,000 · Human ServicesMORE IN COMMON INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesMassachusetts Avenue Project Inc — $30,000 · Human ServicesNew York Taxi Workers Alliance — $25,000 · Human Services+6 more — $65,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$8,074,140Other$4,679,855Environment$2,175,000Community Improvement$1,806,310Arts & Culture$692,783Civil Rights$580,000Human Services$540,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $6,685,140 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $560,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $395,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $347,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc — $325,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $320,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPesticide Action Network North America — $310,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $295,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $282,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION — $275,010 over 3y, 18% of budgetSolutions Project Inc — $250,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $235,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $230,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS — $225,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFOOD CHAIN WORKERS ALLIANCE — $223,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLARA LIONEL FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC — $165,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE — $150,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBLACK FARMER FUND INC — $150,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $140,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC — $133,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCivil Eats — $130,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetYERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $125,283 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAction Center on Race & the Economy Institute — $125,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD — $125,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC — $125,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGroundswell Fund — $120,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS — $103,098 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMORE IN COMMON INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation — $95,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $93,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp — $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE — $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHealthy Food America — $65,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $62,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetMULTIPLIER — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMESA REFUGE A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $60,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC — $54,584 over 2y, 0.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Marin Community Found…Amalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationThe Schmidt Family Fo…Rsf Social Finance IncThe Ford FoundationCommon Counsel Founda…ImpactassetsincWK Kellogg FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Windward FundNew Venture Fund
Marin Community FoundationCA61.3× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Ford Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · Impactassetsinc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Windward Fund · New Venture Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Panta Rhea Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
24report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Panta Rhea Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Panta 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 165 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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