· Private foundation
Real World Scholars 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALDWIN HIGH SCHOOL | $10,001 |
| KEYSTONE OAKS MIDDLE SCHOOL | $7,759 |
| OTTO-ELDRED JS HS | $3,775 |
| EL CAMINO HIGH SCHOOL | $3,489 |
| MONTEITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $3,300 |
| RIVERVIEW JR SR HS | $3,126 |
| RAMSAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $2,308 |
| SOUTH PARK HIGH SCHOOL | $2,150 |
| IU1 - EDUCATIONAL CAMPUS WAYNESBURG | $2,057 |
| CENTRAL COAST NEW TECH HIGH SCHOOL | $2,048 |
| CHARTIERS VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL | $2,041 |
| OTHER CHARITABLE DONATION EXPENSE | $1,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,611 |
| BELLWOOD ANTIS MIDDLE SCHOOL | $1,484 |
| BLOSSOM VALLEY ELEMENTARY | $1,478 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Real World Scholars Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 27% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
145 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 122 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HTHIGH TECH HIGH2× · 2017–2019 · $29k · revenue +85%
- EFElizabeth Forward Marching Band Boosters3× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +40%
- LSLaSalle Springs Middle School PTO13695× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $14k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- MCMETCALFE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $9k
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.
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.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.
Annie wright's strong community cultivates individual learners to become well-educated, creative and responsible citizens for a global society.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
We believe every child in america should have equal opportunity and resources to engage in a quality education. by partnering with teachers and students in under-resourced schools, we provide the support needed to create equitable learning…
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
How this is measured
100 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. 100 of the 386 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
Open a dossier: The Grable Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Hillman Family Foundations · The Intuit Foundation · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Real World Scholars Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Real World Scholars Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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