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R J Samulski Innovation Foundation Inc at a glance

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R J Samulski Innovation Foundation Inc

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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Science & Tech$2.6MEducation$2.5MPhilanthropy$2.3MHealth$85kArts & Culture$25kReligion$10kFood & Nutrition$5k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
RecipientAmount
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY$2,333,000
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY$222,333
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 35% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $2.3M → 7%HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5k → 10%FRANCISCAN MONASTERY OF SAINT CLARE: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $5k → 16%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5k → 17%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2.3M → 8%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $2.5M → 11%COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $222k → 8%COLUMBUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $80k → 11%SOUTH CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC INC: $5k → 16%THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 8%TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 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.
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 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
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

To be 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
2
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
3
North Carolina Symphony Foundation

To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.

Arts & Culture
4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
North Carolina State University Foundation Inc

Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.

Education
6
North Carolina State University College of Sciences Foundation Inc

Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.

Philanthropy
7
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
10
Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education
11
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
12
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust; the most unlike its peers is Columbus Children's Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 14 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,555,333 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY+4 more: $20,000 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY: $2,500,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $2,300,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $80,000 · HealthTHE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthCOLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,575,333Education$2,500,000Philanthropy$2,305,000Health$90,000Arts & Culture$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $2,500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $2,300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCOLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 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.

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.

The Howard Gilman Fou…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 J Samulski Innovation Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from R J Samulski Innovation Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 14 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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