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Realty Gift Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$13M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
95%
First-time grantees FY2023
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77% of Realty Gift Fund’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Endowment Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’17
1
’19
3
’20
10
’21
2
’22
16
’23
8
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$373,393
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,626,493
Organizations funded a year
1 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
13
Total assets, FY2024
$13M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 95% of the organizations Realty Gift Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$3.0M78%
FY202322$2.4M95%
FY20223$2.1M67%
FY202111$229k91%
FY20203$199k100%
FY20192$115k100%
FY20171$39kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$24MHuman Services$2.0MEducation$1.8MArts & Culture$1.6MAnimals$1.1MHealth$974kFood & Nutrition$414kEnvironment$214kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
NM
DC
AL
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 36 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Realty Gift Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSan Francisco Conservatory of Music: $1,472,330 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUpper Valley Haven: $1,141,140 over 1y, 14% of budgetRecovery Empowerment Network: $483,939 over 1y, 17% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $409,183 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $193,339 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $158,015 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $111,964 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRobert Louis Stevenson School: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLife Link Training Institute: $75,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $72,435 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPublic Broadcasting of Colorado Inc: $45,047 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Jewish Health: $38,661 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Shelters & Family Services Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSanta Fe Habitat for Humanity: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMississippi Valley Conservancy Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetYouthworks: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLand Trust Alliance Inc: $26,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwest Alabama Fundraisers Against Childhood Diseases Group: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetEarthjustice: $11,981 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $11,981 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake County Historical Society: $5,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Santa Fe Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDrury University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Rochester: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNature and Culture International: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRio Grande Food Project: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEspanola Valley Humane Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetExplorer Preschool Inc: $1,608 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKeys Family Day School Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTam High Foundation: $850 over 1y, 0.1% 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 32.

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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.

Nancy Ann Mellen FoundationMA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Silicon Valley Community 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.

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How do I get to Realty Gift Fund?

Find your warmest path to Realty Gift Fund 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 Realty Gift Fund

How much does Realty Gift Fund give?
Realty Gift Fund reported 17 grants totaling $12,807,083 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Realty Gift Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (74%), Human Services (6%), Education (6%).
Who are Realty Gift Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: San Francisco Conservatory of Music ($1.5M), Upper Valley Haven ($1.1M), Newport Beach Public Library Foundation ($1.0M).
Does Realty Gift Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 95% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Realty Gift Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Realty Gift Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation, Santa Fe Community Foundation, Pnm Tnmp Foundation.
Where is Realty Gift Fund based?
Realty Gift Fund is based in NM.

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 56 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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