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Paula and Rodger Riney Foundation at a glance

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Paula and Rodger Riney 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.

$33M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$12M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Health$116MEducation$12MPhilanthropy$6.7MScience & Tech$2.3MCrime & Legal$51kFood & Nutrition$37kCommunity Improvement$27kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $250k+10 grants · $33M
$1,372,800
Median grant
5
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$12,000,000
CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE TOULOUSE$5,150,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI$4,110,826
INTERNATIONAL MYELOMA SOCIETY$3,139,644
MAYO CLINIC$2,019,000
ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,000,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$1,372,800
BIOSTL$1,125,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$1,027,781
PURDUE UNIVERSITY$694,561
AMERICAN LEGION POST 156$25,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE ST LOUIS$1,650
100 NEEDIEST CASES STL$1,000
KIRKWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH$1,000
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.

US giving: 80% of grant dollars ($110M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 20% that went abroad ($27M) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE ST LOUIS: $2k → 11%CIRCLE OF CONCERN: $25k → 11%CIRCLE OF CONCERN: $2k → 11%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

MN
WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
CT
CA
UT
MO
VA
OK
GA
FL

Beyond the US: 20% of all-years giving ($27M)

4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
France$10M · 2 grants
Canada$7.0M · 3 grants
Germany$5.1M · 1 grant
Spain$5.0M · 2 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$95M · 11 repeat orgs$40M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
37

Total granted

$95M
$30M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+13%

Still filing today

73%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHuman ServicesCommunity 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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $55M · revenue +97%
  • IM
    INTERNATIONAL MYELOMA SOCIETY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $13M · revenue +164% · 90% of their budget
  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $6.0M · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • I
    INSERM
    one grant, 2021 · $5.2M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WURZBURG
    one grant, 2023 · $5.1M
  • THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $5.0M · revenue -17%
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
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
3
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
4
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
5
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
6
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
7
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
8
City of Hope National Medical Center

City of Hope National Medical Center's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
9
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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10
University of Maryland Medical System Corporation

Umms provides a variety of inpatient/outpatient services to people in the maryland area regardless of their ability to pay. revenues are used to help defray the costs of services.

Health
11
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
12
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The St Louis Men's Group Against Cancer; the most unlike its peers is Missouri K9 Friends. 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

31 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. 31 of the 55 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $55,027,778 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncINTERNATIONAL MYELOMA SOCIETY: $13,176,213 · HealthINTERNATIONAL MYELOMA SOCIETYTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000,000 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC+6 more: $2,135,000 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $7,178,035 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,600,000 · OtherST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONCENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE TOULOUSE: $5,150,000 · OtherCENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE TOULOUS…INSERM: $5,150,000 · OtherINSERMUNIVERSITY OF WURZBURG: $5,139,720 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WURZBURGTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $4,957,431 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $4,110,826 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIUNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA: $3,537,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NAVARRAAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UHN: $3,481,965 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UHNPRINCESS MARGARATE CANCER FOUNDATION (UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK): $3,481,964 · OtherPRINCESS MARGARATE CANCER FOUNDATION (UNIVE…OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $2,000,000 · Other+23 more: $1,912,120 · OtherTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $5,965,118 · EducationBIOSTL: $2,250,000 · EducationNew York University: $1,027,781 · Education+1 more: $1,180 · EducationUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $101,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $200 · PhilanthropyCONCORDANCE: $50,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $1,000 · Crime & LegalCIRCLE OF CONCERN: $27,000 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS: $1,650 · Human ServicesENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 · Community ImprovementGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Community Improvement
Health$75,338,991Other$52,699,061Education$9,244,079Philanthropy$101,200Crime & Legal$51,000Human Services$28,650Community Improvement$27,000

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 budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $55,027,778 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MYELOMA SOCIETY: $13,176,213 over 4y, 90% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $5,965,118 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBIOSTL: $2,250,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $2,019,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $1,027,781 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $101,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCMT Research Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCIRCLE OF CONCERN: $27,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHealthTree Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBURNS RECOVERED SUPPORT GROUP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF AMERICAN FINANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIRKWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ST LOUIS MEN'S GROUP AGAINST CANCER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS: $1,650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,180 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MYELOMA SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BIOSTL ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
  • Who funds CMT Research Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CONCORDANCE ↗
  • Who funds CIRCLE OF CONCERN ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds HealthTree Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CARE AND COUNSELING INC ↗
  • Who funds BURNS RECOVERED SUPPORT GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF AMERICAN FINANCE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

St Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…Moneta Group Charitab…St Louis Community Fo…Edward Jones Foundati…Centene FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Employees Community F…The Crawford Taylor F…Bjc Health System Dba…Enterprise Bank & Tru…Edward Jones Foundati…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO33× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Crawford Taylor Foundation · Bjc Health System Dba Bjc Healthcare · Enterprise Bank & Trust Foundation · Edward Jones 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 Paula and Rodger Riney Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paula and Rodger Riney Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 55 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
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