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RFI 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.

$237k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$330kCivil Rights$241kReligion$120kInternational$108kHealth$103kHuman Services$76kPhilanthropy$66kPublic Benefit$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Jewish Committee$50,000
Coalition for a safer web$25,000
Conference of Presidents$25,000
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies$25,000
American Israel Education Foundation$25,000
Scotland AME Zion Chruch$25,000
University of California Santa Cruz$20,000
UJA Federation of NY$15,000
Pozez JCC Northern Virginia$10,000
JSSA$10,000
Charles E Smith Life Communities$6,000
Washington Revels$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Love Takes Root: $250 → 9%Jewish Foundation for Group Homes: $500 → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$783k · 18 repeat orgs$404k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
49

Total granted

$783k
$273k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+22%

Still filing today

78%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $214k · revenue +44%
  • RB
    Ron Brown Scholar Fund
    4× · 2018–2021 · $175k · revenue +37%
  • HH
    HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • A
    ADL
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • MC
    MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +22%
  • RB
    Ron Brown Scolar Program
    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
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
2
Meridian International Center

Meridian international center is a nonpartisan diplomacy institution founded in 1960 to advance american leadership. headquartered on a historic campus in washington dc, our mission is to empower leaders to advance the next era of…

International
3
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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6
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

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7
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
10
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
11
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
12
Rodel Institute

The rodel institute is a nonpartisan center for leadership and intellectual growth. rodel helps america's most promising leaders reach their full potential as public servants, deepen their commitment to democracy and the rule of law,…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arthritis Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ourbrainbank 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

52 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. 52 of the 75 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
32/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

John Hopkins Children's Center: $75,000 · OtherJohn Hopkins Children's CenterPozez JCC Northern Virginia: $70,000 · OtherPozez JCC Northern VirginiaADL: $25,000 · OtherADLRon Brown Scolar Program: $25,000 · OtherRon Brown Scolar ProgramScotland AME Zion Chruch: $25,000 · OtherScotland AME Zion ChruchTHE CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS OF MAJOR AMERICAN JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS FUND: $25,000 · OtherTHE CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS OF MAJOR AMERI…The Third Way Foundation Inc: $25,000 · OtherThe Third Way Foundation IncMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $22,355 · OtherUniversity of California Santa Cruz: $20,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR A SAFER WEB: $25,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR A SAFER WEBMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $25,000 · OtherMANNA FOOD CENTER INC+27 more: $97,702 · Other+27 moreRon Brown Scholar Fund: $175,000 · EducationRon Brown Scholar FundTeach for America Inc: $31,500 · EducationTeach for America IncMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUND…DC PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $16,750 · EducationDC PREPARATORY ACADEMYINGENUITY PREP: $8,975 · Education+4 more: $5,000 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $214,045 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMIT…TREVOR PROJECT INC: $30,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC+1 more: $1,800 · Civil RightsFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $50,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · InternationalMICHAEL LEVIN LONE SOLDIER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · International+3 more: $2,179 · InternationalHEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $40,500 · HealthIMMUNE DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $5,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $2,500 · Health+5 more: $3,750 · HealthUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $25,500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $850 · PhilanthropyThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $25,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL THEATRE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON REVELS INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $660 · Arts & Culture
Other$460,057Education$262,225Civil Rights$245,845International$82,179Health$66,750Philanthropy$66,350Arts & Culture$28,660

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $214,045 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRon Brown Scholar Fund: $175,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $40,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $31,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $25,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOALITION FOR A SAFER WEB: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS OF MAJOR AMERICAN JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Third Way Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $22,355 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDC PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $16,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMMUNE DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINGENUITY PREP: $8,975 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMICHAEL LEVIN LONE SOLDIER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTUSK USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetThe Economic Club of Washington DC: $4,550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGETRACKS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,049 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAP International Inc: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HEBREW ACADEMY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL THEATRE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON REVELS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGENERATION HOPE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKELSEY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOURBRAINBANK INC: $250 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

The Jewish Federation…The Ryna and Melvin C…The Gary & Carol Berm…Jack Kent Cooke Found…Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…Nora Roberts Foundati…The Norman R Rales an…The Robert P and Arle…Robert I Schattner Fo…Clark Charitable Foun…Clark-Winchcole Found…
The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington IncMD17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · The Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation · The Gary & Carol Berman Family Foundation Inc · Jack Kent Cooke Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales Foundation · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · Robert I Schattner Foundation Inc aka Schattner Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Clark-Winchcole 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Washington Revels Inc: 9% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to RFI Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to RFI 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 75 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home