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Rfs Gives Back Foundation Inc at a glance

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Rfs Gives Back 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.

$9k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$72kFood & Nutrition$37kRecreation & Sports$11kHealth$8kHuman Services$2kCrime & Legal$1kReligion$550Housing & Shelter$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$550
Median grant
4
States reached
$14k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARYLAND FOOD BANK$3,450
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION$2,000
PRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL$1,000
MERCY HEALTH CLINIC$550
GREATER WASHINGTON REGION CLEAN CITIES COALITION$500
THE LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC$500
LAUREL ADVOCACY AND REFERRAL SERVICES$250
OGC SWIM AND DIVE$250
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FOR THE LOVE OF CHILDREN: $500 → 14%LAUREL ADVOCACY AND REFERRAL SERVICES: $250 → 11%FOR THE LOVE OF CHILDREN: $500 → 14%LAUREL ADVOCACY AND REFERRAL SERVICES: $250 → 11%HEARTS AND HOMES FOR YOUTH: $1k → 8%HEARTS AND HOMES FOR YOUTH: $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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$126k · 13 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$126k
$4k

Still filing today

69%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEducationReligionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • NN
    NOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +162%
  • TM
    THE MERCY HEALTH CLINIC INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +21%
  • TM
    THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • MF
    MEALS FOR THE HOMELESS
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • CL
    COVENANT LIFE SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50
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
Capital Area Food Bank Inc

The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
2
Arcadia Food Inc

Cultivate local food systems prioritizing health, equity, and sustainability, from farm forward.

Food & Nutrition
3
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
4
Medstar Health Inc

Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.

Health
5
The Food Trust

The food trust (tft), a nonprofit founded in philadelphia in 1992, strives to make healthy food available to all.continued on schedule otft is a regional and national leader in developing new strategies to prevent childhood obesity and…

Food & Nutrition
6
Freshfarm Markets

Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. we…

Food & Nutrition
7
Adventist Healthcare Inc

We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

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8
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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9
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
10
Maryland Patient Safety Center Inc

To develop and implement strategies to improve the safety of patient care in maryland. mpsc unites stakeholders to champion patient safety, eliminate preventable harm, and accelerate improvements in safety quality across healthcare.

Health
11
Feeding America

Our mission is to advance change in America by ensuring equitable access to nutritious food for all in partnership with partner food banks, policymakers, supporters, and the communities we serve.

Food & Nutrition
12
Northern Virginia Family Services Inc

The mission of northern virginia family service (nvfs) is "to empower individuals and families to improve their quality of life, and to promote community cooperation and support in responding to family needs." nvfs was established in 1924…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nourish Now Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition. 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

12 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. 12 of the 18 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $71,010 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INCTERRAPIN CLUB FOUNDATIONDINGMAN CENTER: $10,800 · OtherTERRAPIN CLUB FOUNDATIO…THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $6,750 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK …NOUISH NOW- MEALS FOR THE HOMELESS: $4,367 · OtherNOUISH NOW- MEALS FOR T…MEALS FOR THE HOMELESS: $3,590 · OtherMEALS FOR THE HOMELESS+3 more: $1,406 · OtherNOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC: $20,112 · Food & NutritionNOURISH NOW FOUNDA…MANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $1,050 · Food & NutritionTHE MERCY HEALTH CLINIC INC: $7,450 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 · HealthHEARTS AND HOMES FOR YOUTH INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesFOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $1,000 · Human ServicesLAUREL ADVOCACY & REFERRAL SERVICES INC: $500 · Human ServicesPRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 · Crime & LegalINTERFAITH WORKS: $550 · ReligionGREATER WASHINGTON REGION CLEAN CITIES COALITION: $500 · Environment
Education$71,010Other$26,913Food & Nutrition$21,162Health$7,950Human Services$3,000Crime & Legal$1,000Religion$550Environment$500

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $71,010 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC: $20,112 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MERCY HEALTH CLINIC INC: $7,450 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $6,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTS AND HOMES FOR YOUTH INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH WORKS: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAUREL ADVOCACY & REFERRAL SERVICES INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON REGION CLEAN CITIES COALITION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Greater Washington Co…Philip L Graham Fund …The Morris and Gwendo…The Charles and Marga…Adventist Healthcare …United Way of the Nat…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Charles and Margaret Levin Family Foundation Inc · Adventist Healthcare Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Rfs Gives Back Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rfs Gives Back Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Laurel Advocacy & Referral Services Inc: 53% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Interfaith Works: 4% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 18 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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