· Private foundation
RBG Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Univ of CO Foundation Sheridan Health Services | $40,000 |
| ACE Scholarships | $20,000 |
| Tunnels to Towers Foundation | $15,000 |
| Downtown Denver Partnership | $13,000 |
| Children's Hospital CO Foundation | $10,206 |
| African Mission Healthcare | $10,000 |
| Mile High Impact 360 | $8,155 |
| Seminole Nation Museum (The) | $5,500 |
| Communities Foundation of OK | $5,155 |
| National Wildlife Federation | $5,150 |
| Foundation Fighting Blindness | $5,125 |
| Developmental Services of NW Kansas | $5,000 |
| Denver Health & Hospital Foundation | $5,000 |
| Michael J Fox Foundation (The) | $5,000 |
| Colorado Uplift | $3,944 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of RBG Inc’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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SNSEMINOLE NATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY7× · 2017–2023 · $111k · revenue +96%
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION7× · 2019–2025 · $71k · revenue +144%
- DSDEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- DRDIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2018 · $25k
- TTTUNNELS TO TOWER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $15k
- GEGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +674%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Albany County Conservancy. 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
63 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. 63 of the 113 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 SEMINOLE NATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Project Restart Inc ↗
- Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC ↗
- Who funds African Mission Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAP FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DENVER PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC EDUCATION & BUSINESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds RAISE THE FUTURE ↗
- Who funds RETRIEVER RESCUE OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH 360 ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Caring for Denver Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Donnell-Kay Foundation Inc · Community Shares of Colorado Inc · Boettcher 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 RBG Inc 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.
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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