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RBG Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$187k
Granted FY2026still arriving
32
Grants FY2026still arriving
12
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$274kEducation$145kArts & Culture$120kHuman Services$64kInternational$61kReligion$37kCommunity Improvement$35kHousing & Shelter$27kOther$0
02FY2026 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k27 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
$2,191
Median grant
12
States reached
$554k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Univ of CO Foundation Sheridan Health Services$61,370
Children's Hospital CO Foundation$15,000
Hashim Khan Foundation$12,000
Mile High Impact 360$10,520
African Mission Healthcare$10,000
Downtown Denver Partnership$8,000
Childrens Miracle Network Hospitals$7,576
Bison Foundation (The)$7,050
Univ of CO Boulder Leeds School of Business$5,300
Foundation Fighting Blindness$5,249
Weld Elves$5,000
Denver Health & Hospital Foundation$5,000
Developmental Services of NW Kansas$5,000
Michael J Fox Foundation (The)$5,000
Communities Foundation of OK$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–26, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Tanzanian Children's Fund: $257 → 8%American Red Cross: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%Developmental Services of NW Kansas: $5k → 14%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $1k → 5%Covenant House New Orleans: $1k → 23%American Red Cross: $2k → 14%Developmental Services of NW Kansas: $5k → 14%3 Hopeful Hearts: $2k → 11%American Red Cross: $1k → 14%Developmental Services of NW Kansas: $5k → 14%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NW KANSAS INC: $5k → 14%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NW KANSAS INC: $2k → 14%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NW KANSAS INC: $2k → 14%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NW KANSAS INC: $2k → 14%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NW KANSAS INC: $2k → 14%ADOPTION EXCHANGE: $1k → 8%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NW KANSAS INC: $2k → 14%ADOPTION EXCHANGE: $1k → 8%DENVER ACTIVE 20-30 CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NW KANSAS INC: $2k → 14%ADOPTION EXCHANGE: $1k → 8%ADOPTION EXCHANGE: $1k → 8%DENVER ACTIVE 20-30 CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $311 → 12%THE ADOPTION EXCHANGE: $500 → 8%RAISE THE FUTURE: $1k → 12%RAISE THE FUTURE: $1k → 12%Raise the Future: $1k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER: $3k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER: $3k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER: $2k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER: $2k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER: $2k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER: $1k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER: $1k → 12%Safehouse Denver: $500 → 12%Safehouse Denver: $500 → 12%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
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 RBG Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

RBG Inclessmore 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$859k · 53 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2026, 32 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
55

Total granted

$859k
$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+27%

Still filing today

60%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • SN
    SEMINOLE NATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $111k · revenue +96%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $71k · revenue +144%
  • DS
    DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC
    10× · 2017–2026 · $31k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • DR
    DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • TT
    TUNNELS TO TOWER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • GE
    GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +674%
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.

1
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
2
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
3
Invest in Kids

Invest in kids partners with local communities to ensure the success of evidence-based programs that improve the health and well-being of colorado's youngest children and their families.

Youth Development
4
The Attainment Network

The attainment network builds networks that transform education-to-workforce systems, erase persistent and pervasive equity gaps, expand opportunities for learners, and meet the economic demands for a highly skilled and educated workforce.

Education
5
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
6
Impact Development Fund

Impact development fund helps people within our underserved communities seek fulfillment for themselves and their families by providing access to affordable living. we create these opportunities by delivering flexible capital to nonprofit…

Housing & Shelter
7
Colorado Children's Campaign

The colorado children's campaign relentlessly champions the needs of children. we leverage data, research, and relationships to unapologetically advocate for kids, fighting for a brighter, more equitable future for every child in colorado.…

—
8
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
9
Education Commission of the States

The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…

Education
10
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

—
11
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
12
Philanthropy Colorado

Philanthropy colorado is a nonprofit membership association for grantmakers throughout the state. its mission is strengthen colorado communities by bringing people, information and resources together.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 123 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
49/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Univ of CO Foundation Sheridan Health Services: $176,370 · OtherUniv of CO Foundation Sheridan Health ServicesSEMINOLE NATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $111,000 · OtherSEMINOLE NATION HISTORICAL SOCIETYOUR LADY OF LOURDES CHURCH AND SCHOOL: $25,500 · OtherDIRECT RELIEF: $25,000 · OtherMile High Impact 360: $23,200 · OtherDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $23,000 · Other+74 more: $287,918 · Other+74 moreALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $71,100 · EducationALLIANCE FOR …STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLE…PUBLIC EDUCATION & BUSINESS COALITION: $10,000 · EducationPUBLIC EDUCAT…COLORADO UPLIFT INC: $4,361 · Education+8 more: $8,240 · Education+8 moreChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $38,606 · HealthChildren's …NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $22,343 · HealthNATIONAL MU…CAP FOR KIDS: $15,000 · HealthCAP FOR KID…DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME: $11,070 · HealthDENVER CHIL…THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $10,374 · HealthTHE FOUNDAT…+5 more: $4,920 · HealthDEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC: $30,500 · Human ServicesSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $13,500 · Human ServicesRAISE THE FUTURE: $7,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human Services+5 more: $5,319 · Human ServicesHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $10,155 · PhilanthropyWELD ELVES: $5,000 · PhilanthropyRose Community Foundation: $2,577 · PhilanthropyNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $255 · PhilanthropyAfrican Mission Healthcare Foundation: $25,166 · InternationalTHE FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE: $4,950 · International+2 more: $1,500 · InternationalProject Restart Inc: $21,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$671,988Education$123,701Health$102,313Human Services$66,819Philanthropy$34,987International$31,616Housing & Shelter$21,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSEMINOLE NATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $111,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $71,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $38,606 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC: $30,500 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAfrican Mission Healthcare Foundation: $25,166 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $22,343 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetProject Restart Inc: $21,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetDOWNTOWN DENVER PARTNERSHIP INC: $21,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPF FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $15,996 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWEDONTWASTE INC: $15,923 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCAP FOR KIDS: $15,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $13,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER CHILDREN'S HOME: $11,070 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $10,374 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $10,155 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC EDUCATION & BUSINESS COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRAISE THE FUTURE: $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRETRIEVER RESCUE OF COLORADO: $6,891 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetMILE HIGH 360: $5,464 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $5,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE: $4,950 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BIG SANDBOX: $3,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRose Community Foundation: $2,577 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBANY COUNTY CONSERVANCY: $2,567 over 2y, 13% of budgetMISSION WOLF: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOULDER CHORALE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDENVER KIDS INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $1,920 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $1,655 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTANLEY BRITISH PRIMARY SCHOOL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $1,060 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLINTON PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,059 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $1,036 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO PET PANTRY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARAPAHOE HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Denver Children's Foundation: $811 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds SEMINOLE NATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds African Mission Healthcare Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Project Restart Inc ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN DENVER PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds PF FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC ↗
  • Who funds CAP FOR KIDS ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC EDUCATION & BUSINESS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds RAISE THE FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds RETRIEVER RESCUE OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds MILE HIGH 360 ↗

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Rose Community Founda…Mile High United Way …Caring for Denver Fou…The Janus Henderson F…Gates Family Foundati…Xcel Energy FoundationDonnell-Kay Foundatio…Community Shares of C…Boettcher Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO32.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
20report 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.
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How do I get to RBG Inc?

Find your warmest path to RBG Inc 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 123 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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