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Rathburn Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$240k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$540kArts & Culture$448kAnimals$225kRecreation & Sports$53kPublic Safety & Disaster$44kHuman Services$33kHealth$27kEnvironment$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TULSA CHILDRENS MUSEUM$149,750
ANGELS SAVING THOSE IN NEED$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
LITTLE LIGHTHOUSE$20,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO$7,000
ALTERNATIVE HORIZONS CORPORATION$7,000
LA PLATA YOUTH SERVICES$7,000
DURANGO MONTESSORI SCHOOL$4,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ANGELS SAVING THOSE IN NEED: $25k → 11%SRU FOUNDATION: $125k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $100k → 11%CASCIA HALL: $20k → 15%ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $17k → 14%SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 13%POWERHOUSE SCIENCE CENTER: $22k → 12%VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO: $7k → 12%ANGELS SAVING THOSE IN NEED: $25k → 11%SRU FOUNDATION: $125k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $100k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF TULSA: $60k → 15%POWERHOUSE SCIENCE CENTER: $15k → 12%VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO: $7k → 12%ANGELS SAVING THOSE IN NEED: $25k → 11%SRU FOUNDATION: $125k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $60k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF TULSA: $60k → 15%DURANGO TRAILS: $11k → 12%VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO: $7k → 12%ANGELS SAVING THOSE IN NEED: $25k → 11%SRU FOUNDATION: $125k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $27k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF TULSA: $60k → 15%RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $10k → 12%VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO: $5k → 12%ANGELS SAVING THOSE IN NEED: $25k → 11%SRU FOUNDATION: $125k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF TULSA: $30k → 15%RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $10k → 12%VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO: $5k → 12%ANGELS SAVING THOSE IN NEED: $25k → 11%TULSA CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $150k → 15%RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $10k → 12%VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO: $5k → 12%ANGELS SAVING THOSE IN NEED: $25k → 11%TULSA CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $150k → 15%DURANGO TRAILS: $7k → 12%VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO: $5k → 12%ANGELS SAVING THOSE IN NEED: $25k → 11%TULSA CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $100k → 15%LA PLATA YOUTH SERVICES: $7k → 12%ANGELS SAVING THOSE IN NEED: $25k → 11%TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTERS OF OKLA: $5k → 15%DURANGO PREGNANCY CENTER: $5k → 12%LITTLE LIGHTHOUSE: $20k → 15%MILLER MIDDLE SCHOOL: $5k → 12%MOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUTE: $7k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 13 repeat orgs$124k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
7

Total granted

$1.9M
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
0%

Still filing today

69%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    4× · 2019–2024 · $287k · revenue +28%
  • The University of Tulsa
    4× · 2017–2023 · $210k · revenue +8%
  • TP
    THE POWERHOUSE
    5× · 2018–2022 · $48k · revenue +249%

Funded once

  • HI
    Hurricane Impact Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
  • EW
    ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP
    one grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue +20%
  • MS
    MOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUE
    one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue 0%

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.

1
The Scintillon Institute

To create breakthrough technologies that catalyze discoveries in a spirited home for collaborative science. With the goal to build and disseminate new capabilities, engineer unique technologies, and pioneer pathways to fresh discoveries,…

Science & Tech
2
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
3
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
4
University of Western States

The mission of the University of Western States is to advance the science and art of integrated health care through excellence in education and patient care.

Health
5
Twirl a Play and Discovery Space Inc

Our mission is to support the growth and potential of children in Taos through inspirational,community-wide opportunities to gather learn, create and play.

Recreation & Sports
6
Fisk University

Fisk university produces graduates from diverse backgrounds with the integrity and intellect required for substantive contributions to society. our curriculum is grounded in the liberal arts. our faculty and administrators emphasize the…

Education
7
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
8
Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

9
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
10
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

11
Animas High School

Animas High School prepares all students for college and postsecondary success by creating critical thinkers and engaged citizens through an innovative, student-centered, project-based curriculum.

Education
12
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trails 2000 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Angels Saving Those in Need Inc. 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

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SRU FOUNDATION — $625,000 · OtherSRU FOUNDATIONVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO — $43,750 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADORIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $30,000 · Other+10 more — $107,750 · Other+10 moreUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $286,509 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHThe University of Tulsa — $210,000 · EducationThe University of Tulsa+1 more — $4,590 · EducationTULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $399,750 · Arts & CultureTULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM …THE POWERHOUSE — $48,000 · Arts & CultureTHE POWERHOUSEANGELS SAVING THOSE IN NEED INC — $225,000 · AnimalsANGELS SAVIN…Hurricane Impact Inc — $35,000 · PhilanthropyENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — $17,000 · EnvironmentMOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUE — $7,072 · EnvironmentTRAILS 2000 INC — $17,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$806,500Education$501,099Arts & Culture$447,750Animals$225,000Philanthropy$35,000Environment$24,072Recreation & Sports$17,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $399,750 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $286,509 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS SAVING THOSE IN NEED INC — $225,000 over 9y, 98% of budgetThe University of Tulsa — $210,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POWERHOUSE — $48,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetHurricane Impact Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetDURANGO PREGNANCY CENTER — $22,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRAILS 2000 INC — $17,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — $17,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlternative Horizons Corporation — $12,750 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUE — $7,072 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLa Plata Youth Services — $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTransitional Living Centers of Oklahoma Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hive DGO — $4,590 over 2y, 1.0% of budget
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 TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
  • Who funds ANGELS SAVING THOSE IN NEED INC
  • Who funds The University of Tulsa
  • Who funds THE POWERHOUSE
  • Who funds Hurricane Impact Inc
  • Who funds DURANGO PREGNANCY CENTER
  • Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC
  • Who funds TRAILS 2000 INC
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP
  • Who funds Alternative Horizons Corporation
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUE
  • Who funds La Plata Youth Services
  • Who funds Transitional Living Centers of Oklahoma Inc
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds The Hive DGO

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado · Team Up · Ballantine Family Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Rathburn Family Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children6% of income from government
  • The University of Tulsa5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report 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, FY2025

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 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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