· Private foundation
Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of RETIREMENT RESEARCH FOUNDATION DBA RRF FOUNDATION FOR AGING’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k116 grants · $209k
- $10k–50k60 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k80 grants · $5.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL CONSUMER LAW CENTER | $143,626 |
| NATIONAL CONSUMER LAW CENTER | $143,626 |
| GRANTMAKERS IN AGING | $132,500 |
| NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION | $125,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | $125,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC | $125,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $125,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL CONNECTION | $124,593 |
| RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $110,000 |
| SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW | $100,000 |
| ILLINOIS PARTNERS FOR HUMAN SERVICE | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO | $100,000 |
| CENTER FOR MEDICARE ADVOCACY INC | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC | $100,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 136 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HAHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP2× · 2023–2024 · $353k · revenue +20%
- AIAGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING)2× · 2023–2024 · $346k · revenue +10%
- IDINNOVATION DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $270k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- SSAGEone grant, 2023 · $180k
- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INCone grant, 2023 · $175k
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $173k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Medicine Policy Research Group and the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
173 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 173 of the 313 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATIONAL CONSUMER LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP ↗
- Who funds AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING) ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS PARTNERS FOR HUMAN SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Injustice Watch NFP ↗
- Who funds Pension Rights Center ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR MEDICARE ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Disability & Elder Law Inc ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds GRANTMAKERS IN AGING INC ↗
- Who funds Caring Across Generations Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RENAISSANCE COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds Legal Council for Health Justice ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Older Adults Technology Services ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Center for Medicare Advocacy Inc — 63% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- National Consumer Law Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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