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Rf Partners Foundation Inc at a glance

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Rf Partners Foundation Inc

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.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
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 2025.

Education$375kPublic Benefit$50kYouth Development$50kHuman Services$25k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$100k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LET'S GET READY$25,000
High Jump$25,000
BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK$25,000
IMENTOR CHICAGO$25,000
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 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 50% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 14%LET'S GET READY: $25k → 17%YWCA BROOKLYN: $25k → 20%CITYSQUASH: $25k → 28%COLLEGE POSSIBLE CHICAGO: $25k → 14%LET'S GET READY: $25k → 17%YWCA BROOKLYN LEAD: $25k → 20%CITYSQUASH: $25k → 28%COLLEGE POSSIBLE CHICAGO: $25k → 14%BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK: $25k → 17%High Jump: $25k → 14%LET'S GET READY INC: $25k → 17%High Jump: $25k → 14%THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC: $25k → 17%IMENTOR CHICAGO: $25k → 14%THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC: $25k → 17%MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 14%THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 14%MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 14%ONEGOAL: $25k → 14%ONEGOAL: $25k → 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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$375k · 7 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$375k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
EducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TN
    THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +52%
  • MC
    MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +27%
  • CP
    COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • TY
    THE YWCA OF BROOKLYN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +22%
  • TP
    THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -3%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
Reach Prep Inc

Provide transformative educational experiences that empower underserved students

Education
2
Futures Ignite Inc

We amplify youth and community power by inspiring, guiding, and advocating for youth to determine their college, career, and leadership futures.

Human Services
3
Be College Ready
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4
The Teak Fellowship Inc

To help academically talented new york city students from low-income families earn admission into the most selective secondary schools and colleges.

Human Services
5
Legal Outreach Inc

Legal outreach is a college preparatory organization that uses instruction in law as a catalyst for inspiring and motivating youth from under-resourced communities in new york city to strive for academic excellence and higher education.…

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6
National College Advising Corps Inc

College advising corps (cac) is the nation's largest nonprofit service organization dedicated to advancing educational equity and expanding opportunity for all high school students. cac provides college enrollment and career guidance to…

Education
7
The Peer Power Foundation Inc

Peer power foundation hires, trains, and deploys college students to be success coaches in economically disadvantaged high schools. (expanded mission on schedule o)these success coaches work primarily inside of english, math, and science…

Education
8
Achieve Twin Cities

As one of the upper midwest's leading career and college readiness organizations, achieve twin cities rallies community support and delivers best-in-class programs to inspire and equip young people in minneapolis and saint paul, minnesota…

Youth Development
9
College Match

College match partners with high schools in los angeles county to identify high-achieving, low-income high school students and provide them with the necessary tools and guidance to get into top-ranked colleges with significant financial…

Education
10
The Chicago Scholars Foundation

Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.

Education
11
Heights Philadelphia

Heights is a new kind of organization, an economic mobility catalyst. we believe that creating pathways to educational and workforce success for low-income, black and brown, and first-generation-to-college students is the keystone of a…

Education
12
The Urban Assembly Inc

To advance students' economic and social mobility by improving public education.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network; the most unlike its peers is City Squash 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LET'S GET READY INC: $75,000 · EducationLET'S GET READY INCTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $50,000 · EducationTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORKMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATIONHIGH JUMP: $50,000 · EducationHIGH JUMPCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $50,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INCTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INCBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC: $25,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INCTHE YWCA OF BROOKLYN INC: $25,000 · OtherTHE YWCA OF BROOK…Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant …IMENTOR CHICAGO: $25,000 · OtherIMENTOR CHICAGOCity Squash Inc: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsCity Squash…ONEGOAL: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentONEGOAL
Education$325,000Other$75,000Recreation & Sports$50,000Youth Development$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLET'S GET READY INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCity Squash Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetONEGOAL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHIGH JUMP: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YWCA OF BROOKLYN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rf Partners Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rf Partners Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’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 →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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

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    How do I get to Rf Partners Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Rf Partners Foundation Inc 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 12 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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