· Public charity
Rbn Foundation
The mission of the RBN FOUNDATION is to support faith, family, marriage, and virtue through k-12 education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE | $500,000 |
| CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $500,000 |
| BECKET FUND FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM | $100,000 |
| EWTN | $100,000 |
| CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA | $100,000 |
| THE NAPA INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER | $40,000 |
| LIVE ACTION | $25,000 |
| THE HIPPOCRATIC SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| THOMISTIC INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FEDERATION PUERI CANTORES | $10,000 |
| COMMUNIO | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k 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
- TATHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +9%
- CLCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +91%
- TCTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA2× · 2023–2024 · $350k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- NINAPA INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -295%
- TLTHE LEONINE FORUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +77%
- AIActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Libertyone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -10%
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.
To make the catholic intellectual tradition a vital part of the culture of universities. to enrich academic communities at the university of chicago, across the nation, and the world with the insights of catholic thought. to dialogue with…
Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
The association of catholic colleges and universities, founded in 1899, serves as the collective voice of u.s catholic higher education. through programs and services, the association strengthens and promptes the catholic identity and…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
To promote socially responsible investments in accordance with socially responsible investment guidelines published by the roman catholic bishops of the united states for institutions, provide education about socially responsible investing…
The institute on religion and public life is an interreligious, nonpartisan research and educational 501(c)(3) organization. the institute's mission is to articulate a governing consensus that supports: (see schedule o)- a religiously…
Conference
University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Federation of Pueri Cantores. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 19 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 THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds The Becket Fund ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NAPA INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NAPA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE LEONINE FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
- Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds Legatus ↗
- Who funds HIPPOCRATIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ENDOW ↗
- Who funds COMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION OF PUERI CANTORES ↗
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: Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Stephen E and Maryanne G Means Foundation Inc · Our Sunday Visitor Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Rbn 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Rbn Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Rbn 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.