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Rathmann Family Foundation

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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$834k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$30MScience & Tech$4.4MEnvironment$2.1MRecreation & Sports$1.4MEducation$1.2MFood & Nutrition$665kHuman Services$450kArts & Culture$426kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $565k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
$60,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY$834,000
AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$675,000
TRUSTEES OF TRINITY COLLEGE$130,000
BUZZARDS BAY COALITION INC$100,000
HUERTA DEL VALLE$100,000
CENTER FOR HEIRS$75,000
HAVERFORD COLLEGE$60,000
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC$50,000
VOLUNTEERS OF LEGAL SERVICE$50,000
GNOME INC$35,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$33,500
ARTIS - NAPLES INC$25,000
WESTPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY$15,000
NEW BEDFORD LIGHT$15,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%END RAPE ON CAMPUS INC: $30k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $20k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $20k → 17%DHARMA VOYAGE INC: $25k → 11%DHARMA VOYAGE INC: $25k → 11%DHARMA VOYAGE INC: $15k → 11%DHARMA VOYAGE INC: $15k → 11%DHARMA VOYAGE INC: $15k → 11%DHARMA VOYAGE INC: $15k → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
SC
DC
FL

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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10M · 20 repeat orgs$21M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
30

Total granted

$10M
$21M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+32%

Still filing today

85%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthAnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesOther

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

  • BUZZARDS BAY COALITION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +83%
  • AP
    AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +181%
  • HD
    HUERTA DEL VALLE
    7× · 2018–2024 · $665k · revenue +8% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • JI
    JOY IN BLUE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20M · revenue +54%
  • NS
    NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MEDALS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $240k · revenue +229% · 40% of their budget
  • CF
    CENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +91%

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
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
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
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
4
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
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
9
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

—
10
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

—
12
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is African Parks Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Joy in Blue Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLand Conservation Organizat…Wildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…South Asian Cultural and Sp…Community Arts OrganizationsChristian Missionary Organi…Government Accountability R…Public University Foundatio…Cancer Support OrganizationsClassical Music EnsemblesVeteran Support ServicesDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Education Equity LeadershipAnimal Rescue and AdoptionPregnancy Support ServicesEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%55%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/43
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,522

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.

04the grantee network

43 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/43
Grantees still filing
34/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JOY IN BLUE FOUNDATION — $19,841,197 · PhilanthropyJOY IN BLUE FOUNDATIONGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC — $9,972,174 · PhilanthropyGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INCNATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY — $4,127,000 · OtherNATIONAL SCIENCE …NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $428,000 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON …CENTER FOR HEIRS — $285,000 · OtherNATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MEDALS FOUNDATION INC — $240,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF LEGAL SERVICE INC — $270,000 · Other+31 more — $1,152,000 · Other+31 moreBUZZARDS BAY COALITION — $1,475,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INC — $200,000 · EnvironmentAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $1,445,000 · Recreation & SportsTRINITY COLLEGE — $560,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE — $295,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · Education+3 more — $45,000 · EducationHUERTA DEL VALLE — $665,000 · Food & NutritionPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $120,000 · HealthGNOME INC — $120,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $50,000 · HealthHILARITY FOR CHARITY INC — $20,000 · Health+1 more — $10,000 · Health
Philanthropy$29,813,371Other$6,502,000Environment$1,675,000Recreation & Sports$1,445,000Education$950,000Food & Nutrition$665,000Health$320,000

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 budgetGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC — $9,972,174 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION — $1,475,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $1,445,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetHUERTA DEL VALLE — $665,000 over 7y, 28% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE — $560,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE — $295,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF LEGAL SERVICE INC — $270,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetNATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MEDALS FOUNDATION INC — $240,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetCENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INC — $200,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC — $175,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $160,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGNOME INC — $120,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetDHARMA VOYAGE INC — $110,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetWESTPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $90,000 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITY DOGS RESCUE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetNEW BEDFORD LIGHT — $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEND RAPE ON CAMPUS — $30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUpward Scholars — $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHILARITY FOR CHARITY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNavy Special Operations Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetMATH FOR AMERICA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFor Alison Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetACHIEVE TWIN CITIES — $17,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HISTORY THEATRE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT RIVER GREENING — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Minnesota Opera — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Advocates For Human Rights — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Joy in Blue FoundationHardenbergh FoundationSouthcoast Community …Fr Bigelow FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …ImpactassetsincNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Joy in Blue FoundationAZ15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Joy in Blue Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Rathmann Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
  • Center for Ecotechnology Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Gnome Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Westport Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Trinity College — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Rathmann Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rathmann 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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