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R & D Impact Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$917k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$2.6MEducation$131kCommunity Improvement$71kYouth Development$26kHuman Services$11kFood & Nutrition$8kMembership Benefit$6kHousing & Shelter$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+2 grants · $845k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$500,000
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL$345,000
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER$50,000
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES$10,800
KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE$7,500
WILLIE THROWER MEMORIAL AWARD FOUNDATION$3,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BAY AREA WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 10%BAY AREA WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 10%UP ON TOP: $1k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 6 repeat orgs$757k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$2.5M
$189k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+46%

Still filing today

50%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $568k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • HM
    HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.4M
  • CC
    CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +25%
  • NO
    North of MarketTenderloin Community Benefit Corporation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • AS
    ACERA SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +16%
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +60%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue +24%
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
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Association

Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center's mission is to provide opportunities for the individuals and families in the North Beach, Chinatown,Fisherman's wharf and Mission Bay neighborhoods to enrich their quality of life.

Community Improvement
4
Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health
5
Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Inc

Our core belief at San Francisco Community Health Center is that everyone deserves to be healthy and needs access to the highest quality health care. Our mission is to transform lives by advancing health, wellness and equality.

Health
6
Joslin Diabetes Center Inc

Our mission is to prevent, treat, and cure diabetes. our vision is a world free of diabetes and its complications.

Health
7
Northeast Hospital Corporation

Centering on a concept and continuum of care that embraces the health, well-being and dignity of each patient, regardless of their ability to pay, northeast hospital corporation (nhc) has four facilities, beverly hospital, addison gilbert…

Health
8
Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center

BHNC focuses on the needs of people with low and moderate incomes. We work to accomplish our mission by: (1) developing affordable housing throughout San Francisco; (2) providing linguistically and culturally responsive services to our…

Human Services
9
Marin Community Clinic

To improve the health of our patients and community by providing high quality, cost-effective, culturally sensitive, patient-centered health care.

Health
10
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
11
Beth Israel Lahey Health Primary Care

Beth israel lahey health primary care (bilhpc) is a network of community based physicians affiliated with the beth israel lahey health (bilh) network and serving the patients and communities served by the lahey clinic hospital (lahey…

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12
Winchester Hospital

The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco; the most unlike its peers is Knead Community Cafe. 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

12 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. 12 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $1,380,000 · OtherHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+5 more: $54,500 · OtherCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: $1,062,750 · HealthCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERIC…BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC: $50,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthACERA SCHOOL INC: $100,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationNorth of MarketTenderloin Community Benefit Corporation: $60,000 · Community ImprovementBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $26,000 · Youth DevelopmentBay Area Womens and Childrens Center: $10,000 · Human ServicesUP ON TOP: $1,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $10,800 · Philanthropy
Other$1,934,500Health$1,162,750Education$101,000Community Improvement$60,000Youth Development$26,000Human Services$11,000Philanthropy$10,800

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 budgetCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: $1,062,750 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetACERA SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNorth of MarketTenderloin Community Benefit Corporation: $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $26,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $10,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBay Area Womens and Childrens Center: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetINDOCHINESE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget826 Valencia: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUP ON TOP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 R & D Impact Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from R & D Impact Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
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How do I get to R & D Impact Foundation?

Find your warmest path to R & D Impact 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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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