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Rbn Foundation

The mission of the RBN FOUNDATION is to support faith, family, marriage, and virtue through k-12 education.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$500,000
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$907k
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Religion$1.6MEducation$1.4MCivil Rights$250kPublic Benefit$40kHealth$25kSocial Science$20k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
PA
CA
CO
VA
NC
DC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Catholic Leadership Institute$1,000,00025%
Thomas Aquinas College$1,000,00021%
The Catholic University of America$350,00020%
The Becket Fund$200,00021%
Eternal Word Television Network Inc$200,00020%
Napa Institute Foundation$100,000124%
The Napa Institute$100,00012%
The Leonine Forum Inc$50,00017%
Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc$40,00010%
Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles$25,0001n/a
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All grantees of Rbn Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Catholic Leadership Institute$1,000,00025%
Thomas Aquinas College$1,000,00021%
The Catholic University of America$350,00020%
The Becket Fund$200,00021%
Eternal Word Television Network Inc$200,00020%
Napa Institute Foundation$100,000124%
The Napa Institute$100,00012%
The Leonine Forum Inc$50,00017%
Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc$40,00010%
Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles$25,0001n/a
Legatus$25,00010%
Fellowship of Catholic University Students$25,0001n/a
Live Action$25,00010%
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty$25,00010%
Dominican House of Studies$25,0001n/a
Hippocratic Society$25,000146%
Communio Foundation Inc$20,00020%
Endow$20,00012%
American Federation of Pueri Cantores$10,00014%

Where it is load-bearing

Rbn Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCatholic Leadership Institute: $1,000,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetThomas Aquinas College: $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Catholic University of America: $350,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Becket Fund: $200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEternal Word Television Network Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNapa Institute Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetThe Napa Institute: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Leonine Forum Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetEthics and Public Policy Center Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLegatus: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLive Action: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHippocratic Society: $25,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetCommunio Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEndow: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAmerican Federation of Pueri Cantores: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund IncCT17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

Compare Rbn Foundation with peer funders

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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.

About Rbn Foundation

How much does Rbn Foundation give?
Rbn Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $1,547,345 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Rbn Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (48%), Education (41%), Civil Rights (8%).
Who are Rbn Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Catholic Leadership Institute ($1.0M), Thomas Aquinas College ($1.0M), The Catholic University of America ($350k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Rbn Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc, Christian Community Foundation Inc, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.
Where is Rbn Foundation based?
Rbn Foundation is based in CT.

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 19 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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