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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 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, FY2018 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

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, $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. Its 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%NATIVES OF ONE WIND INDIGEOUS ALLIANCE: $5k → 13%pukuu cultural community services: $15k → 14%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
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

NH
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IL
WI
MI
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OR
SD
OH
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
AZ
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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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 43% of Panta Rhea Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Panta Rhea Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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

  • 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
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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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

132 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. 132 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
128/132
Grantees still filing
67/132
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & CultureMESA REFUGE A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $60,000 · Arts & CultureMAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Arts & CultureKUMANO I KE ALA O MAKAWELI: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureRaizes Collective: $25,000 · Arts & CultureWHYHUNGER INC: $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 RightsUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $40,000 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance 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 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 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 budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 budgetGroundswell Fund: $120,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $103,098 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORE IN COMMON INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation: $95,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $93,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 budgetMESA REFUGE A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $60,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetMAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetMULTIPLIER: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $54,584 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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 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 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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.

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