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Rise8 Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.6M
Granted FY2022
19
Grants FY2022
9
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

69% of Rise8 Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 13 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Rise8 Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $5M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’17
0
’19
0
’20
9
’21
14
’22
15
’23
13
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$36MEducation$12MEmployment$1.0MScience & Tech$1.0MHuman Services$810kArts & Culture$667kHealth$307kCommunity Improvement$300kOther$0
02FY2022 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+8 grants · $3.4M
$200,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$342M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARACTER LAB$1,000,000
KIPP NEW YORK INC$750,000
COMMONLIT INC$334,000
COOP CAREERS$333,000
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$275,000
CODE ORG$250,000
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$250,000
IRA SOHN CONFERENCE FOUNDATION INC$250,000
ALL OUR KIN INC$200,000
EMPIRICAL RESOLUTION INC$200,000
TIGER FOUNDATION$100,000
KHAN ACADEMY INC$100,000
QUESTBRIDGE$100,000
ZEARN INC$100,000
THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 44% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%ROCKET LEARNING FOUNDATION: $250k → 10%COMMONLIT INC: $334k → 8%POSTSECONDARY COMMISSION: $250k → 16%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $13.4M → 7%LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $250k → 7%FOUNDATION FOR PROMOTION SPORTS AND GAMES: $50k → 8%IMAGINE WORLDWIDE: $100k → 8%EMPIRICAL RESOLUTION INC: $200k → 13%FRIENDS OF RAISING THE VILLAGE INCORPORATED: $50k → 17%KIPP NEW YORK INC: $1.0M → 28%COMMONLIT INC: $333k → 14%WATERFORD INSTITUTE INC: $67k → 8%ASIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LTD: $600k → 5%THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $250k → 11%KINGS ROAD CHARITABLE FUND: $11.0M → 11%THREAD INC: $50k → 19%COMMONLIT INC: $333k → 8%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $10.3M → 7%QUESTBRIDGE: $100k → 8%IMAGINE WORLDWIDE: $100k → 8%TALKINGPOINTS: $334k → 10%TRANSCEND INC: $50k → 9%EMPIRICAL RESOLUTION INC: $200k → 13%COOP CAREERS: $334k → 17%KIPP NEW YORK INC: $750k → 28%WATERFORD INSTITUTE INC: $67k → 8%SEE ATTACHMENT 1: $1.5M → 11%THREAD INC: $50k → 19%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $275k → 7%QUESTBRIDGE: $100k → 8%TALKINGPOINTS: $333k → 10%EMPIRICAL RESOLUTION INC: $200k → 13%COOP CAREERS: $333k → 17%KIPP NEW YORK INC: $500k → 28%WATERFORD INSTITUTE INC: $67k → 8%SEE ATTACHMENT 1: $1.1M → 11%QUESTBRIDGE: $100k → 8%COOP CAREERS: $333k → 17%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (CTY): $125k → 11%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $175k → 17%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $125k → 17%ZEARN INC: $100k → 17%ZEARN INC: $100k → 17%ZEARN INC: $100k → 17%IRA SOHN CONFERENCE FOUNDATION INC: $250k → 17%THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 17%THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 17%TIGER FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%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
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MD
DE
DC
LA
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 16 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
9

Total granted

$13M
$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+37%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsScience & TechOther
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

  • KA
    KHAN ACADEMY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +98%
  • KN
    KIPP NEW YORK INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $2.3M · revenue +254%
  • CC
    COOP Careers Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +152%

Funded once

  • KR
    KINGS ROAD CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $11M
  • TS
    Trinity School
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
  • TI
    TRANSCEND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +105%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
3
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…

Education
4
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
5
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
6
Partners in School Innovation

To transform teaching and learning in the lowest-performing public schools so that every student, regardless of background, thrives.

Philanthropy
7
AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
12
Institute for Student Achievement Foundation

Institute for student achievement foundation (isaf) raises funds to support the institute for student achievement (isa), which is a part of educational testing service, a section 501(c)(3) public charity, that wants all students,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teach for All Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tiger Foundation. 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

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 44 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
25/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $24,000,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST+2 more: $60,000 · PhilanthropyKINGS ROAD CHARITABLE FUND: $11,000,000 · OtherKINGS ROAD CHARITABLE FUNDCHARACTER LAB: $1,000,000 · OtherCHARACTER LABCOMMONLIT INC: $667,000 · OtherASIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LTD: $600,000 · OtherTrinity School: $500,000 · Other+6 more: $1,060,000 · Other+6 moreKHAN ACADEMY INC: $4,950,000 · EducationKHAN ACADEMY INCKIPP NEW YORK INC: $2,275,000 · EducationKIPP NEW YORK INCCOOP Careers Inc: $1,000,000 · EducationCOOP Careers IncALL OUR KIN INC: $810,000 · EducationALL OUR KIN INCTALKINGPOINTS: $667,000 · EducationEMPIRICAL RESOLUTION INC: $600,000 · Education+14 more: $2,289,000 · Education+14 moreIra Sohn Conference Foundation Inc: $250,000 · HealthPennys Flight Foundation Inc: $30,000 · Health+2 more: $1,500 · HealthIMAGINE WORLDWIDE: $200,000 · Community ImprovementWATERFORD INSTITUTE INC: $200,000 · Science & TechTHREAD INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentASPHALT GREEN INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsFOUNDATION FOR PROMOTION OF SPORTS AND GAMES: $50,000 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$24,060,000Other$14,827,000Education$12,591,000Health$281,500Community Improvement$200,000Science & Tech$200,000Youth Development$110,000Recreation & Sports$100,000

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 budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $24,000,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $4,950,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetKIPP NEW YORK INC: $2,275,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCOOP Careers Inc: $1,000,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetALL OUR KIN INC: $810,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetTALKINGPOINTS: $667,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetEMPIRICAL RESOLUTION INC: $600,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetCOMMONLIT INC: $333,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIGER FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetZEARN: $300,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetIra Sohn Conference Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetRocket Learning Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetCODEORG: $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPOSTSECONDARY COMMISSION: $250,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIMAGINE WORLDWIDE: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWATERFORD INSTITUTE INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHREAD INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSingapore American School Foundation: $60,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTRANSCEND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASPHALT GREEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends Of Raising The Village Incorporated: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR PROMOTION OF SPORTS AND GAMES: $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetPennys Flight Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEACH FOR ALL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO READ: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEGREGORIO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC: $500 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Gates FoundationOverdeck Family Found…Robin Hood FoundationRobertson FoundationNational Philanthropi…Greater Houston Commu…Arrow ImpactValhalla FoundationThe Chase and Stephan…FfwdTenacre Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA20.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gates Foundation · Overdeck Family Foundation Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · Robertson Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Arrow Impact · Valhalla Foundation · The Chase and Stephanie Coleman Foundation · Ffwd · Tenacre 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 Rise8 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rise8 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Thread Inc: 12% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Zearn: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Rise8 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rise8 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 44 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home