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RICK & BONNIE RULE FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$113k
Granted FY2024
6
Grants
2
Communities
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Education$249kEnvironment$106kInternational$48kHealth$10kSocial Science$5kArts & Culture$2kHuman Services$2kPhilanthropy$250Other$62k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
honorsan
2020
san
2021
san
2022
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2023
san
2024
land acquisition
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
- PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA$50,000
- ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE-SOUTHEAST$50,000
- SKAGIT LAND TRUST$5,000
- SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST$5,000
- CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA$2,000
- GUEMES ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION$1,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of RICK & BONNIE RULE FOUNDATION’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.
RICK & BONNIE RULE FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient 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.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$309k · 7 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
7
8
Total granted
$309k
$72k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+33%
+38%
Still filing today
86%
75%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationEnvironmentInternationalHealthSocial ScienceArts & CultureOther
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
- SFSTUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INCORPORATED5× · 2019–2023 · $207k · revenue +46%
- SGSHE-CAN GLOBAL4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +179%
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $2k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAone grant, 2019 · $38k · revenue +6%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +38%- AAAMERICAN AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -32%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Uc San Diego Foundation
To advocate and raise private support for the university of california san diego, for the purpose of its research, teaching and public service mission.
Education
2
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation
To advance UC Santa Barbara's capacity to educate future generations, unlock new discoveries, and enrich California and the world.
Education
3
Stanbridge University Foundation
Education
4
Seattle Pacific University
Seattle Pacific University is a Christian university fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community.
Education
5
San Francisco State University
To provide private financial support to assist the university in meeting its educational mission.
Education
6
Public Policy Institute of California
Inform and improve public policy in california through independent, objective, nonpartisan research
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7
Pacific University
A diverse sustainable community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship, and practice, pacific inspires students to think, care, and pursue justice in our world
Education
8
Associated Students of Sdsu
To support the mission of san diego state university and create, promote, and fund (see sch o) opportunities for students, faculty, staff and the sdsu community.
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9
Island Institute
We boldly navigate climate and economic change with island and coastal communities to expand opportunities and deliver solutions.
Education
10
Ucla Alumni Association
The mission of the ucla alumni association is to enrich the lives of alumni and involve them in the future of ucla.
Education
11
Scripps College
Scripps College ("Scripps") is an independent, liberal arts, undergraduate college for women.
Education
12
American Geosciences Institute
Dedicated to serving the geoscience community and addressing the needs of society. See Sch O
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Skagit Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Cascade Public Media. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network
14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$248,749Environment$106,189Other$63,837International$47,827Health$10,273Social Science$5,000Arts & Culture$2,000
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 STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE-SOUTHEAST ↗
- Who funds SHE-CAN GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds SKAGIT LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUEMES ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO COUNCIL ON LITERACY ↗
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.
Shell USA Company FoundationTX15.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation RICK & BONNIE RULE FOUNDATION 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GUEMES ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 911767137 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on GUEMES ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Rick & Bonnie Rule Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Rick & Bonnie Rule Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines