Does Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Circle of Service Foundation, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Polk Bros Foundation Inc.

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Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 256
Grants FY2024: 169
Organizations funded FY2023: 100%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $16,676
Largest grant, FY2024: $143,626
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 169; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 27
Total assets, FY2024: $147M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging 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; $6.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	170	$7.5M	80%
FY2023	169	$6.5M	100%
FY2022	2	$8.3M	0%
FY2021	2	$7.9M	0%
FY2020	2	$6.6M	n/a

97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$4.3MHealth$3.4MEducation$2.2MCrime & Legal$1.2MCivil Rights$835kPhilanthropy$763kHousing & Shelter$693kCommunity Improvement$428kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
National Consumer Law Center Inc	$388,252	1	2%
Health and Medicine Policy Research Group	$352,550	2	7%
Ageoptions Inc (Fka Suburban Area Agency on Aging)	$346,333	2	1%
Innovation Development Institute Inc	$270,000	2	3%
University of Massachusetts	$229,980	1	n/a
Illinois Partners for Human Service	$225,250	2	28%
Injustice Watch NFP	$225,000	2	11%
Medicare Rights Center Inc	$225,000	1	5%
Pension Rights Center	$225,000	1	21%
Center for Medicare Advocacy Inc	$225,000	1	6%

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All grantees of Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
National Consumer Law Center Inc	$388,252	1	2%
Health and Medicine Policy Research Group	$352,550	2	7%
Ageoptions Inc (Fka Suburban Area Agency on Aging)	$346,333	2	1%
Innovation Development Institute Inc	$270,000	2	3%
University of Massachusetts	$229,980	1	n/a
Illinois Partners for Human Service	$225,250	2	28%
Injustice Watch NFP	$225,000	2	11%
Medicare Rights Center Inc	$225,000	1	5%
Pension Rights Center	$225,000	1	21%
Center for Medicare Advocacy Inc	$225,000	1	6%
National Recreation and Park Association	$211,000	1	1%
Shriver Center on Poverty Law	$205,750	2	2%
National Council on Aging Inc	$200,000	1	0%
Center for Disability & Elder Law Inc	$185,150	2	7%
Lincoln Park Village Inc	$183,590	2	11%
Grantmakers in Aging Inc	$177,500	1	7%
Caring Across Generations Inc	$150,000	1	1%
The Renaissance Collaborative Inc	$140,000	1	2%
Legal Council for Health Justice	$130,000	2	2%
Older Adults Technology Services	$125,000	1	1%
The University of Texas Foundation Inc	$125,000	1	0%
Legal Action Center of the City of New York Inc	$125,000	1	2%
Justice in Aging	$125,000	1	2%
Foundation for Social Connection	$124,593	1	8%
Metropolitan Mayors Caucus Foundation	$110,000	1	100%
Rush University Medical Center	$110,000	1	0%
National Alliance to End Homelessness	$109,700	1	1%
Twin Cities Public Television Inc	$101,789	1	0%
Kenwood Oakland Community Organization	$100,300	1	2%
Duke University	$100,000	1	0%
Gerontological Society of America	$100,000	1	1%
University of California San Francisco	$100,000	1	n/a
Services and Advocacy for Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Elders Inc	$100,000	1	1%
Loyola University of Chicago	$90,025	1	0%
Illinois Public Health Institute	$90,000	2	1%
Forefront	$89,182	2	1%
Little Sisters of the Poor Palatine St Josephs Home for the Elderly	$85,000	2	1%
Alivio Medical Center Inc	$85,000	1	0%
University of Chicago	$81,200	2	0%
Shrm Foundation Inc	$75,000	1	1%
The United Neighborhood Houses of New York Inc	$75,000	1	1%
Depaul University	$75,000	1	0%
Southwest Organizing Project	$75,000	2	0%
Wisconsin Institute for Healthy Aging Inc	$74,952	1	9%
AIDS Foundation of Chicago	$74,345	1	0%
Washington University	$70,798	1	0%
Georgia Institute on Aging Inc	$67,804	1	16%
Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly Inc	$65,000	1	2%
Kingdom House D/B/A Lifewise Stl	$63,167	1	1%
Harmony Community Cares Nfp	$60,000	2	3%
New America Foundation	$60,000	1	0%
Cyber-Seniors	$54,646	1	6%
Generations United Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Southside Together Organizing For Power	$50,000	1	11%
Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County	$50,000	1	1%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc	$50,000	1	0%
American Society on Aging	$50,000	1	1%
National Academy of Social Insurance	$50,000	1	7%
The Latino Alzheimers and Memory Disorders Alliance	$50,000	1	3%
The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation)	$50,000	1	2%
Esperanza Health Centers	$50,000	1	0%
Jane Addams Senior Caucus	$50,000	2	11%
Metropolitan Family Services	$50,000	1	0%
Dupage Health Coalition	$47,000	1	1%
Illinois Legal Aid Online	$45,000	1	2%
Metromorphosis	$45,000	1	5%
Marillac St Vincent Family Services Inc	$42,500	1	0%
Aging Care Connections	$42,461	1	1%
Emanuel Congregation	$40,600	1	n/a
Serving Older Adults of Southeast Wisconsin Inc	$40,238	1	2%
Lakeview Presbyterian Church	$40,000	1	n/a
Michael Reese Health Trust	$40,000	1	2%
The Chicago Network Inc	$40,000	1	3%
Little Sisters of the Poor Chicago St Mary's Home	$39,759	1	0%
Rogers Park Montessori School	$33,000	2	0%
Open Communities	$30,000	1	3%
The Chicago Innovation Foundation	$30,000	2	2%
Missouri Council on Aging	$25,000	1	7%
The Tenant Education Network	$25,000	1	4%
National Able Network Inc	$24,398	1	0%
The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago	$20,000	1	0%
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago	$20,000	1	0%
Ampt Advancing Nonprofits	$20,000	1	1%
Waves Ahead Corp	$18,000	1	1%
Inner-City Computer Stars Foundation	$15,000	1	0%
St Teresa of Avila Parish	$15,000	1	n/a
Candid	$12,000	1	0%
Council on Foundations Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Citizen Action Illinois Education Fund	$10,000	1	100%
Loras College	$7,500	1	0%
Legal Aid Chicago	$7,500	1	0%
Legal Action Chicago LLC	$7,500	1	1%
Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders	$7,500	2	0%
Chicago Cares Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Usaging	$7,500	1	0%
Misericordia Home	$6,000	2	0%
Peer Services Inc	$6,000	2	0%
Chicago City Day School	$6,000	2	0%
Chicago House & Social Service Agency	$5,250	1	0%
Search Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Coordinated Care Alliance	$5,000	1	2%
Pathlights Human Services	$5,000	1	0%
Heal Chicago	$5,000	1	5%
Illinois Action for Children	$4,560	1	0%
Georgia Healthy Family Alliance Inc	$4,500	1	1%
Chicago Public Media Inc	$4,380	2	0%
Chicago Jewish Day School	$4,290	2	0%
Grantmakers in Health	$4,100	1	0%
Mightycause Charitable Foundation	$3,000	1	0%
Santa Barbara International Film Festival Inc	$3,000	1	0%
National Center for Civil and Human Rights Inc	$3,000	1	0%
Maywood Fine Arts Association	$3,000	1	0%
Southwest Community Corporation	$3,000	1	0%
Internet Archive	$3,000	1	0%
The Colorado College	$3,000	1	0%
Housing Opportunities for Women Inc	$3,000	1	0%
Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy	$3,000	2	0%
Big Shoulders Fund	$3,000	1	0%
Ora Lee Smith Cancer Research Foundation	$3,000	1	0%
Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association Inc	$3,000	1	0%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces	$2,742	2	0%
Ignatian Spirituality Project	$1,875	1	n/a
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago	$1,800	2	0%
Impact for Equity	$1,665	1	0%
Chicago Symphony Orchestra	$1,650	2	0%
Steppenwolf Theatre Company	$1,500	1	0%
Church of the City	$1,500	1	n/a
The Center for Black Women's Wellness Cbww Inc	$1,500	1	0%
Hope Chicago Inc	$1,500	1	0%
Crossroads Fund Inc	$1,500	1	0%
Walther Lutheran High School Association Inc	$1,500	2	n/a
American Lung Association	$1,500	1	0%
Carleton College	$1,500	1	0%
Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)	$1,500	1	0%
Gift of Adoption Fund Inc	$1,200	1	0%
Rest Haven Illiana Christian Convalescent Home	$1,150	1	0%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society	$900	1	0%
Sarah's Circle	$750	1	0%
Acacia Theatre Company Inc	$750	1	1%
First United Methodist Church of Chicago	$750	1	n/a
Rise Academy	$750	1	0%
New Life Centers of Chicagoland	$750	1	0%
Earthjustice	$750	1	0%
The Boulevard of Chicago Inc	$750	1	0%
Arogya Inc Dba Arogya World	$750	1	0%
De Lasalle Institute	$750	1	n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$690	1	0%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research	$678	1	0%
Doors of Change	$600	1	0%
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life	$540	1	0%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc	$510	1	0%
Greater Chicago Food Depository	$450	1	0%
Springfield Center for Independent Livin	$450	1	0%
International Rescue Committee INC	$450	1	0%
Surge for Water Inc	$450	1	1%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc	$360	1	0%
Danny Did Foundation	$300	1	0%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc	$300	1	0%
Nourishing Hope	$300	1	0%
Ablevoices	$300	1	0%
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago	$300	1	0%
Rembrandt Chamber Players Inc	$300	1	0%
Paws Chicago	$300	1	0%
Wayland Academy	$300	1	0%
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Inc	$300	1	0%
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness	$300	1	0%
Chicago Police Memorial Foundation	$300	1	0%
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression	$300	1	0%
Plagiarists Nfp	$300	1	n/a
World Wildlife Fund Inc	$300	1	0%
Camp Ramah in Wisconsin Inc	$162	1	n/a
Plus One Adoption Foundation Inc	$150	1	1%
The National World War II Museum Inc	$150	1	0%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum	$150	1	0%
Orphans of the Storm	$150	1	0%
America Gives Inc	$150	1	0%
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago	$150	1	0%
Chicago Public Library Foundation	$150	1	0%
Hebrew Benevolent Loan Association	$100	1	2%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 128 recipients with no EIN on record ($28M), not named here.

Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 167 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 167.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Circle of Service FoundationIL49.2× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Michael Reese Health Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Healthy Communities Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Chicago Foundation for Women · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Robert R McCormick 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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About Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging

How much does Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging give?: Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging reported 256 grants totaling $5,274,366 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 169 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (11%), Health (9%), Education (6%).
Who are Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: National Consumer Law Center Inc ($388k), Health and Medicine Policy Research Group ($353k), Ageoptions Inc (Fka Suburban Area Agency on Aging) ($346k).
Does Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Circle of Service Foundation, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Polk Bros Foundation Inc.
Where is Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging based?: Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging is based in IL.