· Public charity
Rf Catalytic Capital Inc
Providing visionary solutions through partnerships with like-minded funders to (see schedule o) improve the lives of vulnerable people around the world
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k5 grants · $557k
- $250k+100 grants · $124M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE WORLD BANK | $15,000,000 |
| JUSTICE CLIMATE FUND | $4,000,000 |
| PUERTO RICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $4,000,000 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT | $3,880,000 |
| PACT | $3,879,232 |
| COALITION FOR GREEN CAPITAL | $3,264,704 |
| CLIMATE AND CLEAN ENERGY EQUITY FUND | $2,500,000 |
| WINDWARD FUND | $2,500,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR TRIBAL CLEAN ENERGY | $2,500,000 |
| FARM-TO-POWER INC | $2,400,000 |
| FAIR SHOT TEXAS | $2,000,000 |
| LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND | $2,000,000 |
| AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $2,000,000 |
| WINDWARD FUND | $2,000,000 |
| ACUMEN FUND INC | $1,875,000 |
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, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $33M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT CAPACITY BUILDING · TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
Stated purpose: TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE · TO SUPPORT CAPACITY BUILDING
Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT CAPACITY BUILDING · TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Rf Catalytic Capital Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +33% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 69 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65M 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
- WBWORLD BANK GROUP STAFF ASSOCIATION2× · 2022–2024 · $30M · revenue +33%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $15M · revenue +33%
Rocky Mountain Institute3× · 2022–2024 · $7.4M · revenue +50%
Funded once
- CPCLIMATE POWER EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2023 · $4.0M · 34% of their budget
COMMUNITY INITIATIVESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +46%- CFClean Future Forum Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +247%
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.
The Climate Access Fund develops and finances community solar products that serve low to moderate income households
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Clean energy research and advocacy. Clean Energy Group promotes effective clean energy policies, develops low carbon technology innovation strategies and promotes new financial tools to strengthen the economy and stabilize climate change.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.
The california clean energy fund supports entrepreneurs to drive innovation and build equity into the clean economy.
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Climate Power Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Justice Climate Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 21% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
110 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. 110 of the 121 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
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 WORLD BANK GROUP STAFF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds PACT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds CLASP ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE AND CLEAN ENERGY EQUITY FUND ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE POWER EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE CLIMATE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds PUERTO RICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR TRIBAL CLEAN ENERGY INC ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE JOBS NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR GREEN CAPITAL D/B/A AMERICAN GREEN BANK CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT INC ↗
- Who funds FARM-TO-POWER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds FAIR SHOT TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Clean Future Forum Inc ↗
- Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Elevate Energy ↗
- Who funds GRID ALTERNATIVES ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIV INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
- Who funds Forward Together Wisconsin ↗
- Who funds Solar United Neighbors Inc ↗
- Who funds Conservative Energy Network ↗
- Who funds THE GREENLINING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBUILD GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE UNITED FUND ↗
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: United States Energy Foundation · Windward Fund · New Venture Fund · Climate Imperative Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Freedom Together Foundation · Climateworks Foundation · The Energy Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Heising-Simons 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 Rf Catalytic Capital Inc 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.
- Climate United Fund — 100% of income from government
- Youthbuild Global Inc — 69% of income from government
- Community Health Center Capital Fund Inc — 21% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Housing Partnership Network Inc — 10% 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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