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Rick & Bonnie Rule Foundation at a glance

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Rick & Bonnie Rule Foundation

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.

$169k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$348kHealth$131kEnvironment$71kInternational$50kArts & Culture$30kSocial Science$14kAnimals$7kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY$100,000
ROBERTO CLEMENTE - SANTA ANA HEALTH CLINIC INC$10,000
CASCADE PBS$10,000
ISLAND HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
CASCADE PBS$10,000
SKAGIT LAND TRUST$10,000
PANTHERA$7,000
SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UHN INC$5,000
ANACORTES FAMILY CENTER$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$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 (FY23–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GUEMES ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION: $1k → 11%GUEMES ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION: $500 → 11%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

WA
NY
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Rick & Bonnie Rule Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Rick & Bonnie Rule Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient 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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$457k · 8 repeat orgs$196k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$457k
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+38%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentInternationalHealthSocial ScienceArts & CultureOther
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

  • SF
    STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $307k · revenue +16%
  • SG
    SHE-CAN GLOBAL INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +140%
  • CP
    CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • AR
    ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -6%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $38k · revenue +81%
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
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
2
Pacific Atlantic Action Coalition

The mission of the organization is to educate the general public regarding issues of public policy and to promote and bring about advances in such areas of public policy. the organization promotes public policy change through education,…

Social Science
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
The University of British Columbia

Pursuing excellence in research learning and engagement to foster global citizenship and advance a sustainable and just society across British Columbia Canada and the world.

Education
5
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
6
Califonia State University East Bay Foundation Inc

Csu east bay foundation is an auxiliary organization of california state university east bay and the california state university system. the organization's mission is to provide services that aid, supplement, and advance the educational…

Education
7
Portland State University Foundation

Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.

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8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
10
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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11
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
12
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Panthera Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 22 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC: $307,095 · EducationSTUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INCSHE-CAN GLOBAL INC: $40,000 · EducationSHE-CAN GLOBAL INC+2 more: $2,654 · EducationACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST: $50,000 · EnvironmentACCESS REPRODUCTIVE C…SKAGIT LAND TRUST: $36,595 · EnvironmentSKAGIT LAND TRUSTTHE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST: $34,594 · EnvironmentTHE SAN JUAN PRESERVA…PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA: $50,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENT…ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherISLAND HOSPITA…LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC: $5,000 · OtherLUDWIG VON MIS…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UHN INC: $5,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIEN…FRASER INSTITUTE: $3,837 · OtherFoundation for Economic Education Inc: $5,000 · OtherFoundation for…+3 more: $2,750 · OtherAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA: $37,827 · InternationalAMERICAN AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · InternationalCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,273 · HealthTHE ROBERTO CLEMENTE SANTA ANA HEALTH CLINIC INC: $10,250 · HealthPANTHERA CORPORATION: $7,000 · Animals
Education$349,749Environment$121,189Other$81,587International$47,827Arts & Culture$25,000Health$20,523Animals$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC: $307,095 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSHE-CAN GLOBAL INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSKAGIT LAND TRUST: $36,595 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST: $34,594 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,273 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROBERTO CLEMENTE SANTA ANA HEALTH CLINIC INC: $10,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,654 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGuemes Island Community Center Assn: $1,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego Council on Literacy: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…The Skagit Community …Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Shell USA Company FoundationTX15.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Skagit Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Rick & Bonnie Rule Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rick & Bonnie Rule Foundation. 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Rick & Bonnie Rule Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rick & Bonnie Rule 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.

    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 22 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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