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Revolutions per Minute

The organization's mission is to provide artists with strategy and support for their activism and philanthropy.

$642k
Granted FY2019
23
Itemized grants FY2019
19
Organizations funded FY2019
89%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Itemized, FY2019
$597k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2019
$12,135
Largest grant, FY2019
$235,759
Organizations funded a year
13 to 19
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
14

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 89% of the organizations Revolutions per Minute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 96% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $475k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
EnvironmentHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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
FY201919$496k89%
FY201813$180k69%
FY201714$170kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Arts & Culture$295kHealth$143kEnvironment$107kPhilanthropy$92kCivil Rights$81kCrime & Legal$70kYouth Development$47kPublic Benefit$38kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
AZ
NM
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Revolutions per Minute by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Be Interactive$235,759146%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$69,7372n/a
Crisis Text Line Inc$41,79910%
Hope for the Day$34,1141n/a
Fairness Education Fund$23,5282n/a
Healthcare-Now Inc$23,5282n/a
Center for Popular Democracy Inc$22,64520%
Community Water Center$21,6242n/a
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts$20,00011%
Young Authors Greenhouse Inc$18,8521n/a
NAMI National$18,79820%
Greenwave Organization Corp$17,59512%
Self Enhancement Inc$16,00010%
NM Bodecker Creative Foundation$16,00010%
Autistic Self Advocacy Network Inc$16,00012%
Off the Street Club$15,62911%
Democracy Now Productions Inc$15,0001n/a
Boys & Girls Clubs of America$15,00010%
Future of Music Coalition Inc$14,595126%
Mercy Corps$12,96010%
Southerners on New Ground Inc$12,44211%
Ayni Institute Inc$12,44111%
Greenfaith Inc$12,4411n/a
Faith Roots Reproductive Action$12,311111%
The Story of Stuff Project$12,13511%
Americares Foundation Inc$11,99510%
Utah Dine Bikeyah$9,10011%
Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness$9,10010%
Conservation Lands Foundation$9,10010%
The Center for Cultural Power$8,6311n/a
Access Reproductive Care - Southeast$8,4961n/a
United for A Fair Economy Inc$8,0201n/a
Willamette Riverkeeper$8,0001n/a
Columbia Riverkeeper$8,00010%
Catalyst California$6,68010%
Emergency Family Assistance Association$6,68010%
Movement Strategy Center$6,02410%
Puente Human Rights Movement$5,25710%
Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc$5,12510%
National Lawyers Guild Foundation Inc$5,03210%

Where it is load-bearing

Revolutions per Minute supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBe Interactive: $235,759 over 1y, 46% of budgetCrisis Text Line Inc: $41,799 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Popular Democracy Inc: $22,645 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGray Area Foundation for the Arts: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNAMI National: $18,798 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGreenwave Organization Corp: $17,595 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSelf Enhancement Inc: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNM Bodecker Creative Foundation: $16,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAutistic Self Advocacy Network Inc: $16,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOff the Street Club: $15,629 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of America: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFuture of Music Coalition Inc: $14,595 over 1y, 26% of budgetMercy Corps: $12,960 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoutherners on New Ground Inc: $12,442 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAyni Institute Inc: $12,441 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFaith Roots Reproductive Action: $12,311 over 1y, 11% of budgetThe Story of Stuff Project: $12,135 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $11,995 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Dine Bikeyah: $9,100 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNortheastern Minnesotans for Wilderness: $9,100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetConservation Lands Foundation: $9,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColumbia Riverkeeper: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCatalyst California: $6,680 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmergency Family Assistance Association: $6,680 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMovement Strategy Center: $6,024 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPuente Human Rights Movement: $5,257 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Disaster Philanthropy Inc: $5,125 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Lawyers Guild Foundation Inc: $5,032 over 1y, 0.2% 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 28.

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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.

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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 Revolutions per Minute?

Find your warmest path to Revolutions per Minute 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 Revolutions per Minute

How much does Revolutions per Minute give?
Revolutions per Minute reported 23 itemized grants totaling $597,390, out of $642,175 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Revolutions per Minute fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Health (15%), Environment (11%).
Who are Revolutions per Minute's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Be Interactive ($236k), Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc ($70k), Crisis Text Line Inc ($42k).
Does Revolutions per Minute fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 89% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Revolutions per Minute?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Patagoniaorg.
Where is Revolutions per Minute based?
Revolutions per Minute is based in KY.

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 45 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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