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Rebel Family Foundation

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.

$76k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$75kFood & Nutrition$54kYouth Development$36kInternational$33kCommunity Improvement$10kEnvironment$6kCivil Rights$3k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $72k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD DEPOSITORY$15,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN$15,000
EMBARC INC$12,000
UNBLOCKED ENGELWOOD CO CHICAGO BUNGLOW ASSOCIATION$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS CIRCLE$10,000
RESIDENT ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ENGELWOOD$10,000
CLEAN ENERGY TRUSTEVERGREEN$2,000
SWEET WATER FOUNDATION$1,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $3k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS CIRCLE: $10k → 17%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $15k → 9%EMBARC INC: $12k → 14%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $3k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS CIRCLE: $5k → 17%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $15k → 9%EMBARC INC: $12k → 14%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $3k → 6%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $5k → 9%EMBARC INC: $12k → 14%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $5k → 9%EMBARC INC: $12k → 14%RESIDENT ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ENGELWOOD: $10k → 14%RESIDENT ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ENGELWOOD: $10k → 14%SWEET WATER FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%SWEET WATER FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%SWEET WATER FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%SWEET WATER FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%SWEET WATER FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%CLEAN ENERGY TRUSTEVERGREEN: $5k → 14%CLEAN ENERGY TRUSTEVERGREEN: $2k → 14%CLEAN ENERGY TRUSTEVERGREEN: $1k → 14%UNBLOCKED ENGELWOOD CO CHICAGO BUNGLOW ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%UNBLOCKED ENGELWOOD CO CHICAGO BUNGLOW ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%FOOD DEPOSITORY: $15k → 14%FOOD DEPOSITORY: $15k → 14%FOOD DEPOSITORY: $15k → 14%FOOD DEPOSITORY: $15k → 14%FOOD DEPOSITORY: $3k → 14%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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$214k · 8 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
0

Total granted

$214k
$0

Still filing today

75%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionYouth DevelopmentInternationalEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FD
    FOOD DEPOSITORY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $63k
  • EI
    EMBARC INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $48k · revenue -26%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue -13%

Funded once

    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
    Rare

    Rare inspires change so people and nature thrive.

    Environment
    2
    Endeavor Global Inc (F/K/a the Endeavor Initiative Inc)

    Endeavor is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement around the world.

    International
    3
    Eden Peopleplanet

    To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

    International
    4
    One Earth Philanthropy

    One Earth connects thinkers, doers, activists, and knowledge holders from around the world to solve humanity's greatest ecological challenges--together. Our belief is simple: The solutions to the climate crisis already exist. By connecting…

    Environment
    5
    The Everglades Foundation Inc

    The mission of the foundation is to restore and protect america's everglades through its three programmatic pillars: science, advocacy and education. (continued on schedule o)

    Environment
    6
    Global Entrepreneurship Network

    The global entrepreneurship network operates programs in 180 countries aimed at making it easier for anyone, anywhere to start and scale a business. by fostering deeper cross-border collaboration between entrepreneurs, researchers,…

    Education
    7
    Us Middle East Project Inc

    The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

    International
    8
    Green Empowerment

    Green empowerment works with local partners around the world to strengthen communities by delivering renewable energy and safe water.

    Philanthropy
    9
    Global Fairness Initiative

    The global fairness initiative (gfi) promotes a more equitable, sustainable approach to economic development for the world's working poor by advancing fair wages, equal access to markets, and balanced public policy to ensure a more just,…

    International
    10
    World Resources Institute

    Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

    International
    11
    Global Forest Generation

    Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

    Environment
    12
    World Wildlife Fund Inc

    Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

    Environment
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc. 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

    8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    8/8
    Grantees still filing
    1/8
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    HEARTLAND CHARITABLE TRUST: $70,000 · PhilanthropyHEARTLAND CHARITABLE TRUSTAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS CIRCLE - FAMILIES FORUM: $15,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS C…FOOD DEPOSITORY: $63,000 · OtherFOOD DEPOSITORYUNBLOCKED ENGELWOOD CO CHICAGO BUNGLOW ASSOCIATION: $12,500 · OtherUNBLOCKED ENGELWOOD CO CHICAG…EMBARC INC: $48,000 · Youth DevelopmentEMBARC INCSave The Children Federation Inc: $40,000 · InternationalSave The Children …JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $7,500 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FU…RESIDENT ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ENGLEWOOD: $20,000 · Community ImprovementEVERGREEN CLIMATE INNOVATIONS: $8,000 · EnvironmentSweet Water Foundation Inc: $7,500 · Food & Nutrition
    Philanthropy$85,000Other$75,500Youth Development$48,000International$47,500Community Improvement$20,000Environment$8,000Food & Nutrition$7,500

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

    25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEARTLAND CHARITABLE TRUST: $70,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetEMBARC INC: $48,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRESIDENT ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ENGLEWOOD: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS CIRCLE - FAMILIES FORUM: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEVERGREEN CLIMATE INNOVATIONS: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSweet Water Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 5y, 0.2% 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.

    The Chicago Community…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
    The Chicago Community TrustIL12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Rebel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rebel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

    2023
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
    • Save the Children Federation Inc: 27% of income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 Rebel Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rebel Family 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.

    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 10 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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