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Rapoport Family Foundation at a glance

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Rapoport Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$571k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$985kPublic Benefit$638kPhilanthropy$180kScience & Tech$142kHuman Services$135kReligion$130kArts & Culture$125kCivil Rights$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $403k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$25,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACCELERATE CHANGE$100,000
CENTER FOR ELECTION RESEARCH & INNOVATION$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS$30,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$29,595
ARIZONA COALITION FOR CHANGE$25,000
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$25,000
SUNY DEPT OF POLI SCI$25,000
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS$25,000
OHIO PROGRESSIVE COLLABORATIVE EDUCATION FUND$25,000
LEXINGTON OBSERVER INC$25,000
TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION$25,000
COLBY COLLEGE - GOLDFARB CENTER$25,000
SHALOM AUSTIN$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$15,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION: $25k → 5%JAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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IN
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CA
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VA
MD
AZ
NC
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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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Rapoport Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Rapoport Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 23 repeat orgs$899k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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25

Total granted

$1.5M
$546k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+6%

Still filing today

57%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $353k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCivil RightsArts & CultureCrime & LegalPublic BenefitInternationalOther
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

  • WA
    WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND
    2× · 2020–2023 · $250k · revenue +324%
  • SA
    SHALOM AUSTIN
    2× · 2022–2024 · $125k · revenue +50%
  • TC
    The Center for Election Innovation & Research
    2× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • COMMITTEE OF SEVENTYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +70%
  • Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -2%
  • AI
    After Innocencegraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $38k · revenue +54%
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.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
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
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
8
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
9
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
10
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
11
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
12
Council of Independent Colleges

The council of independent colleges is an association of nonprofit independent colleges and universities, state- based councils of independent colleges, and other higher education affiliates, that works to support college and university…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Hillel at Texas a&M. 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

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 70 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
25/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP: $125,000 · OtherNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIPUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVIS: $105,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVISACCELERATE CHANGE: $100,000 · OtherACCELERATE CHANGETHE REDRESS PROJECT: $67,911 · OtherTHE REDRESS PROJECTUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $55,200 · Other+34 more: $724,068 · Other+34 moreWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $250,000 · EducationWORKING AMERICA EDUCATI…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $55,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows o…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $48,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $30,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $29,595 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $29,550 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $29,476 · EducationThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $24,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $23,800 · Education+4 more: $43,445 · Education+4 moreThe Center for Election Innovation & Research: $100,000 · Civil RightsThe Center fo…THE CENTER FOR CIVIC ALTERNATIVES: $75,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FO…COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY: $50,000 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE OF …ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $25,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR …ARIZONA COALITION FOR CHANGE: $25,000 · Civil RightsARIZONA COALI…Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund: $25,000 · Civil RightsOhio Progress…FOR OUR FUTURE EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 · Civil RightsFOR OUR FUTUR…THE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TEXAS…MARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL: $30,000 · Arts & CultureMARCH ON …The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $25,000 · Arts & CultureThe Unite…LEXINGTON OBSERVER INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureLEXINGTON…DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureDOCUMENTA…SHALOM AUSTIN: $125,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyNEO Philanthropy Inc: $75,000 · Public BenefitCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $50,000 · Public BenefitNorthwestern University: $70,902 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,177,179Education$562,866Civil Rights$325,000Arts & Culture$230,000Philanthropy$200,000Public Benefit$125,000Recreation & Sports$70,902

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 budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $250,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetSHALOM AUSTIN: $125,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP: $125,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Center for Election Innovation & Research: $100,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CIVIC ALTERNATIVES: $75,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetNorthwestern University: $70,902 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE OF SEVENTY: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $48,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAfter Innocence: $38,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetBluebonnet Data Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetJAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL: $30,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $29,595 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $29,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $29,476 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $27,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA COALITION FOR CHANGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLEXINGTON OBSERVER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOhio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOR OUR FUTURE EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $24,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $23,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR NEW AMERICAN MEDIA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONEVIRGINIA2021 FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetThe George Washington University: $13,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $12,645 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONEVIRGINIA2021: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Hillel at Texas A&M: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNew York University: $2,750 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…New Venture FundThe Ford FoundationHopewell FundTides FoundationGreater Washington Co…Amalgamated Charitabl…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA19.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Ford Foundation · Hopewell Fund · Tides Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Rapoport Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rapoport Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Documentary Educational Resources Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Rapoport Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rapoport Family 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 70 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home