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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 FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$4.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

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

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

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

01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $604k
  • $250k+11 grants · $12M
$373,393
Median grant
13
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FUND$4,626,493
RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$1,458,752
GREATER HORIZONS$1,240,238
UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC$1,141,140
FRIENDS OF OASIS$800,000
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$760,590
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$688,660
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$448,387
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC - CLINE CHARITABLE FUND$373,393
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM$347,436
SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC$262,930
HUDSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATON$247,822
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION$193,339
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION$111,964
CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA$50,939
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $484k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RECOVERY EMPOWERMENT NETWORK OF MARICOPA COUNTY INC AKA REN: $484k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

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
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 4 repeat orgs$6.3M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
35

Total granted

$1.8M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+31%

Still filing today

75%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.5M · revenue -54%
  • NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
    3× · 2020–2023 · $158k · revenue +4%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $78k

Funded once

  • BH
    BERKELEY HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $1.1M
  • NB
    NEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +303%
  • RE
    RECOVERY EMPOWERMENT NETWORK
    one grant, 2023 · $484k · revenue -1%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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8
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
9
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Lake County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
35/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $8,263,654 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $1,458,752 · PhilanthropyRenaissance Charitable Foundation IncGreater Horizons: $1,240,238 · PhilanthropyGreater HorizonsNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $1,219,824 · PhilanthropyNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INCVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $852,977 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM+2 more: $611,739 · PhilanthropyFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $9,995,319 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GI…UPPER VALLEY HAVEN: $1,141,140 · OtherUPPER VALLEY HA…BERKELEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,053,911 · OtherBERKELEY HUMANE…FRIENDS OF OASIS: $800,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF OASI…The Houston Food Bank: $409,183 · OtherThe Houston Foo…MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC - CLINE CHARITABLE FUND: $373,393 · OtherMORGAN STANLEY …+25 more: $600,108 · Other+25 moreSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $1,472,330 · EducationSAN FRANCIS…NEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · EducationNEWPORT BEA…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $688,660 · EducationTHE BOARD O…+7 more: $118,458 · EducationRECOVERY EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $483,939 · Human ServicesLIFE LINK TRAINING INSTITUTE: $75,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH SHELTERS & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $193,339 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $158,015 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $38,661 · HealthSave The Children Federation Inc: $111,964 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,981 · International
Philanthropy$13,647,184Community Improvement$9,995,319Other$4,377,735Education$3,279,448Human Services$588,939Health$390,015International$123,945

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $9,995,319 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $8,263,654 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $1,472,330 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $1,458,752 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Horizons: $1,240,238 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $1,219,824 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER VALLEY HAVEN: $1,141,140 over 1y, 14% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $852,977 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $688,660 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRECOVERY EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $483,939 over 1y, 17% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $409,183 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $363,917 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUDSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $247,822 over 1y, 2.8% 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $26,262 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

Nancy Ann Mellen Foun…Santa Fe Community Fo…Pnm Tnmp FoundationVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Marin Community Found…The Bessemer Giving F…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Raymond James Charita…Silicon Valley Commun…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Realty Gift Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Realty Gift Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Upper Valley Haven: 38% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

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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