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RAPIDAN FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$106k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants
5
Communities
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0175% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.
Education$135kInternational$118kEmployment$67kCivil Rights$54kArts & Culture$40kHuman Services$39kCrime & Legal$25kOther$156k
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
2019
girls
2020
—
2021
—
2022
—
2023
leadership
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
- NURTURING MINDS INC$15,000
- TEACH$15,000
- SAN MIGUEL - CASA INC$15,000
- PROSPERA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$15,000
- PONHEARY LY FOUNDATION$14,000
- GREEN MOUNTAIN CAMP FOR GIRLS$12,000
- GLOBAL GRASSROOTS$10,000
- MUJERES EN CAMBIO$10,000
02The need
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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.
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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 90% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of RAPIDAN FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
RAPIDAN FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$533k · 11 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
11
8
Total granted
$533k
$90k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+20%
+83%
Still filing today
82%
38%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesEmploymentCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NMNURTURING MINDS INC5× · 2019–2023 · $73k · revenue +122%
- PCPROSPERA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT5× · 2018–2023 · $67k · revenue +252%
- SMSAN MIGUEL - CASA INC3× · 2021–2023 · $62k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- DFDOCTORS FOR GLOBAL HEALTHgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +83%
- SMSAN MIGUEL - CASA INCone grant, 2018 · $15k
- PLPONHEARY LY FOUUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your 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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Speak Up for the Poor
Speak Up exists to transform the world on behalf of the poor. Our mission is to create a new reality for girls in poverty. We work toward this goal through educational programs support of safe homes and practical legal work.
International
2
Mercado Global Inc
Mercado global empowers indigenous women to transform their lives through entrepreneurship.
International
3
She-Can Global Inc
SHE-CAN equips and inspires low-opportunity women from post-conflict and climate-challenged countries to become impact leaders who individually and collectively change their nations and create pathways for future female leaders.
Education
4
Sister India Ltd
Sister India provides a holistic program, protecting and uplifting women and girls, ending trafficking, child marriages and child labor, and ensuring girls can go to school instead. We research effective solutions, and raise awareness…
International
5
Educate Girls
Educate Girls promotes and protects the right of girls to a quality education and works by supporting partners in geographies where the need is greatest to mobilize communities, enroll girls into school and improve learning outcomes. Our…
International
6
Maia
Unlocking and maximizing the potential of young women to lead transformational change.
International
7
Global Strategies
Global Strategies empowers communities in the most neglected areas of the world to improve the lives of women and children through healthcare.
Health
8
World Pulse Voices
World Pulse is a global social impact network connecting women from 227 countries to accelerate social change. We provide a safe and supportive online space where women can speak for themselves, make powerful connections, and access the…
Human Services
9
Days for Girls International
To increase access to menstrual care and education.
International
10
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide
Philanthropy
11
Women's Link Worldwide
A legal organization working to advance the rights of women, girls, and gender diverse people. We work on issues of reproductive rights, gender-based violence, climate, and racial justice in East Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the…
Civil Rights
12
Maitri
To support south asian women in situations of domestic abuse, cultural displacement, or conflict.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Prospera Community Development. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$155,950Education$134,500International$117,500Employment$67,000Civil Rights$54,000Arts & Culture$40,000Human Services$39,200Crime & Legal$25,000
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 NURTURING MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPERA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL - CASA INC ↗
- Who funds MADRE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GRASSROOTS ↗
- Who funds TEACH ↗
- Who funds PONHEARY LY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAIR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds AMARA LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds DOCTORS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds MY SISTER'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds OMID FOUNDATION USA ↗
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.
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation RAPIDAN FOUNDATION 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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.
05Through 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: SAN MIGUEL - CASA INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 742837551 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 SAN MIGUEL - CASA INC, 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
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% 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 Rapidan Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Rapidan Foundation 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines