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· Private foundation
R J SAMULSKI INNOVATION FOUNDATION INC
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$2.6M
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
1
Communities
$2.3M
Largest
01What you fund
0166% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.
Education$2.5MPhilanthropy$2.3MHealth$90kArts & Culture$15kOther$2.6M
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2021
pianochildren's
2022
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2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k1 grant · $222k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.3M
$2,333,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$90M
Total assets
Largest grants
- NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY$2,333,000
- NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY$222,333
02The need
04
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 9%. 35% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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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North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation
The north carolina museum of art highlights the following programming, exhibition and initiatives; in the last year the museum added 41 works of art with expansions in the american collection, contemporary acquisitions and african art.…
Arts & Culture
2
College of Charleston Foundation
To promote education, research, and development programs for the exclusive benefit of the college of charleston
Education
3
The Charleston Museum
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
Arts & Culture
4
North Carolina State University
Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.
Education
5
The Columbia Foundation
Philanthropy
6
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy
7
Medical University of South Carolina
The medical university of south carolina foundation (the "foundation") was incorporated in july 1966 under the laws of south carolina as an educational, charitable, eleemosynary foundation to promote educational, research, clinical, and…
Health
8
North Carolina State University College
Provides financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.
Philanthropy
9
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc
The north carolina symphony is north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Arts & Culture
10
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
The conservatory offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate musical education.
Education
11
Nc State Engineering Foundation Inc
To aid and promote, by financial assistance and otherwise, educational, research, and extension in the college of engineering at north carolina state university
Education
12
The Trustees of Princeton University
Princeton university is a private not-for-profit, nonsectarian institution of higher learning and a world-renowned research institution.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Triangle Community Foundation 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
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$2,575,333Education$2,500,000Philanthropy$2,305,000Health$90,000Arts & Culture$15,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
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- Who funds HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY13.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation R J SAMULSKI INNOVATION FOUNDATION INC 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COLUMBUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~29 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 25.4× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 831456169 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on COLUMBUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 29 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to R J Samulski Innovation Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to R J Samulski Innovation Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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