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RHS Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$342k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
37
Grants FY2024
34
Organizations funded FY2023
12%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 34
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
20
Total assets, FY2024
$1.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations RHS Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Civil RightsPublic BenefitReligionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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
FY2024still arriving35$322k6%
FY202334$340k12%
FY202228$210k7%
FY202128$265k25%
FY202022$165k14%
FY201922$185k18%
FY201819$130k16%
FY201720$111kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$310kArts & Culture$263kHealth$238kReligion$148kPublic Benefit$140kInternational$130kCivil Rights$115kEducation$114kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
MS
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of RHS Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Media Research Center$155,00070%
Samaritan's Purse$130,00080%
Judicial Watch Inc$95,00080%
Family Research Council$90,00080%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$72,50080%
The Overcomer Foundation$52,50065%
American Center for Law & Justice-Midwest Inc$50,00066%
NAMI National$50,00080%
The Foundation for the Horse Fka the Aaep Foundation Inc$45,00071%
Religious Freedom Coalition$45,00061%
Alliance Defending Freedom$40,00040%
Mission Pre-Born Inc$37,50080%
Humane Society of Rock Island$36,00082%
The Freedom Center$30,0004n/a
The Heritage Foundation$30,00040%
Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc$25,00030%
Young America's Foundation$22,50050%
Eight Days of Hope Inc$20,00020%
American Family Association Inc$20,00020%
The Salvation Army$20,0008n/a
Illinois Policy Institute$15,00030%
River Bend Food Reservoir$15,00030%
Folds of Honor Foundation$15,00040%
Gospel for Asia Inc$10,0001n/a
Citizens' Council for Health Freedom$10,00011%
Life & Family Educational Trust$7,50021%
Rock Island County Farm Bureau$5,00013%
Churches United Incorporated$5,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($579k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget RHS Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMedia Research Center: $155,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $130,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $95,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Research Council: $90,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $72,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Overcomer Foundation: $52,500 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetAmerican Center for Law & Justice-Midwest Inc: $50,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetNAMI National: $50,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Foundation for the Horse Fka the Aaep Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetReligious Freedom Coalition: $45,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetAlliance Defending Freedom: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMission Pre-Born Inc: $37,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Society of Rock Island: $36,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCoral Ridge Ministries Media Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEight Days of Hope Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Family Association Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIllinois Policy Institute: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRiver Bend Food Reservoir: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFolds of Honor Foundation: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens' Council for Health Freedom: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLife & Family Educational Trust: $7,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRock Island County Farm Bureau: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% 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 24.

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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.

Christian Community Foundation IncCO12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

Compare RHS Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to RHS Foundation?

Find your warmest path to RHS Foundation 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 RHS Foundation

How much does RHS Foundation give?
RHS Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $341,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does RHS Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (17%), Arts & Culture (14%), Health (13%).
Who are RHS Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Media Research Center ($155k), Samaritan's Purse ($130k), Judicial Watch Inc ($95k).
Does RHS Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does RHS Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as RHS Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, Servant Foundation, Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is RHS Foundation based?
RHS Foundation is based in IL.

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 47 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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