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· Private foundation
REAL WORLD SCHOLARS INC
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$65k
Granted FY2024
48
Grants
13
Communities
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 95% of REAL WORLD SCHOLARS INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
earthmagnetfosterlovesafecleanhumane
2020
besttroyfood pantryeducationpittsburghchildren'srescue
2021
greater
2022
chancewatsonrescuegreaterbowman
2023
san diegometcancerfoodbowmanrescuebellwood-antis
2024
del mar
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 48 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$613
Median grant
13
States reached
$96k
Total assets
Largest grants
- KEYSTONE OAKS MIDDLE SCHOOL$7,771
- BALDWIN HIGH SCHOOL$6,433
- MONTEITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$5,362
- BELLWOOD ANTIS MIDDLE SCHOOL$5,334
- OTTO-ELDRED JS HS$3,822
- EL CAMINO HIGH SCHOOL$3,135
- JEFFERSON HILLS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL$2,976
- SOUTH PARK HIGH SCHOOL$2,513
- RAMSAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$2,464
- IU1 - EDUCATIONAL CAMPUS WAYNESBURG$2,299
- CARLSBAD HIGH SCHOOL$2,113
- OTHER CHARITABLE DONATION EXPENSE$1,950
- RIVERVIEW JR SR HS$1,597
- NORTHLAND INNOVATION CENTER$1,575
- ELM STREET ELEMENTARY$1,539
02The need
04
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 (FY19–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7% — the area typically sits at 10%. 18% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
05
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 66% of REAL WORLD SCHOLARS 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. Read by recipient address, 27% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 11% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
REAL WORLD SCHOLARS INClessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient 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.
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.
75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$741k · 143 repeat orgs$249k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.
143 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 97 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
143
242
Total granted
$741k
$247k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+65%
+51%
Still filing today
8%
23%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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
- LCLAUSANNE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL3× · 2017–2022 · $5k · revenue +40%
- IAIVY ACADEMY3× · 2019–2024 · $4k · revenue +65%
- ISILEAD SPRING MEADOWS2× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +157%
Funded once
- HJHARRISON JRSR HSone grant, 2017 · $14k
- HEHANNAH ELEMENTARYone grant, 2017 · $10k
- MCMETCALFE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $9k
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
Animal Care Sanctuary
The humane compassionate treatment of all animals.
Animals
2
Animal Aid Inc
Animal aid of portland enhances the welfare of companion animals through individualized care and lifelong commitment, rescue and adoption, resources and education, and community partnerships.
Animals
3
The Wildcat Sanctuary
Provide sanctuary to wild cats in need and inspire change to end the captive wildlife crisis.
Animals
4
American society of animal sci
To discover, disseminate and apply knowledge for sustainable use of animals for food and other human needs
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5
Petconnect Rescue Inc
Petconnect rescue is a foster-based animal welfare organization dedicated to saving at-risk dogs and cats, providing them with high quality care, and adopting them to loving homes. we are committed to ensuring a highly positive rescue…
Animals
6
Animal Shelter of Wood River Valley
We are on a mission to change lives by connecting pets and people. We dothis through innovative programs that inspire and have impact beyond ourborders. We envision a compassionate community where all animals arerecognized for their…
Animals
7
Furkids Inc
Animal rescue organization rescue homeless animals, provide them with the best medical care and nurturing environment while working to find them a forever home.
Animals
8
The Wild Animal Sanctuary
Animal sanctuary and public education on captive wildlife.
Animals
9
Animal Ark Incorporated
Operate a nature center and wildlife sanctuary to provide educational programs for vistors, opportunities to aid in conversation efforts, and permanent care for the orphaned, confiscated, and non-releaseable wildlife that do not have the…
Animals
10
Animal Welfare Institute
To alleviate animal suffering caused by people.
Animals
11
Animal Ark Inc
Animal ark's mission is to provide humane treatment of abandoned pets and pets of individuals who lack sufficient resources to fully provide for some of their pets needs.
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12
Chartwell School
Chartwell School empowers bright students with language-based learning differences, including dyslexia. We do this in grades K-12 by offering them the knowledge, creativity, and skills in self advocacy and perseverance needed to thrive in…
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and the most unlike its peers is Lausanne Collegiate School. 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.
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
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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/77
the rest of the field
11%
206,164/1,819,488
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.
06the grantee network
69 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
49/69
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$944,792Education$24,510Human Services$10,835Animals$3,699Health$2,320Philanthropy$2,174Food & Nutrition$890
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.
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.
United Way of Greater Kansas City IncMO12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Simple Generosity Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · McKesson Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · Verizon Foundation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation 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 organisation REAL WORLD SCHOLARS 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BELLWOOD-ANTIS SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 251704547 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BELLWOOD-ANTIS SCHOOL DISTRICT, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Real World Scholars Inc?
Find your warmest path to Real World Scholars Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines