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Rainbow Community Development Center Inc

To build better lives for those in need through safety net services: emergency food pantry, eviction prevention, prevention of utility cutoff, and temporary emergency shelter.

$5.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
Grants FY2024still arriving
States reached
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $5,569,975.

$0
Median grant
States reached
$453k
Total assets
02The need
02

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.

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 — 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.

1
Mel Johnson International

Food bank, community resource center

Philanthropy
2
Shiloh Ministry

Spreading the gospel and teaching the importance and mandate of service that assist in their communities becoming more effective in the provision of food and resources for the hungry and those in direct need of aide.

3
Gods Bounty Inc

Supplying food to low income residents

Food & Nutrition
4
Eben-Ezer Ministries Corp
Religion
5
Ezekiel Community Development Corp

Food insecurity

Religion
6
Harvest House

Food Security

Human Services
7
Nourishing Bethesda Inc

Fighting food insecurity in our area by providing nutritious food and community support to our neighbors in need, as well as offering and linking our clients to wraparound resources that will enable them to build healthy and stable lives.

Human Services
8
People Help Exchange Inc

Food Pantry to combat hunger and prevent homelessness.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Kings & Priests Comm Develop Corp

Care for humanity through food security.

Community Improvement
10
Walker Mill Community Development Corporation

Walker Mill Community Development Corporation is to support the poor and need. We feed people who are hungry more by partnering with the Washington, DC food bank. We also work to train families how to grow their own food by partnering with…

Youth Development
11
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

12
Fts Charity

Feed the Soul is a nonprofit that provides fresh fruits and vegetables to nutritionally deficient children while teaching them how to make healthy choices for life. Through interactive programs, in-school farm markets, and ongoing produce…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shepherds Table Inc and the most unlike its peers is Noahs Arc Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%4%<5yr18%8%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr9%24%35–55yr11%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr18%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr16%0%20–35yr9%0%35–55yr11%0%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
17%
2,456/14,351

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

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.

Capital Area Food Bank IncDC26× affinity10 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Capital Area Food Bank Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Rainbow Community Development Center Inc?

Find your warmest path to Rainbow Community Development Center Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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