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Rising Foundation Inc

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50
Granted FY2022
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Grants FY2022
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States reached
$50
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$26kCrime & Legal$3kYouth Development$1kHealth$710Housing & Shelter$537Human Services$460Animals$300Recreation & Sports$300Other$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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Median grant
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States reached
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Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$50
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 4% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Sleep in Heavenly Peace: $360 → 11%Maui High School: $2k → 9%TUNNEL TO TOWERS (EIN 02-0554654): $1k → 11%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $50 → 17%Network for Good: $100 → 14%CASA COLIBRI (EIN 26-1947552): $100 → 8%Mitchell Middle School: $300 → 10%St Judes Childrens Research Hospita: $510 → 17%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY (EIN 13-1788491): $100 → 8%WOODLAND ELEMENTARY: $3k → 8%Kids Off The Block Inc: $100 → 14%Kahului Elementary School: $149 → 9%TUNNEL FOR TOWERS (EIN 02-0554654): $537 → 11%Autism Speaks: $100 → 17%ALLATOONA HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS: $300 → 8%Woodland Elementary School: $1k → 8%State of Hawaii Dept of Education: $8k → 9%Donorschooseorg: $535 → 17%SPECIAL EDUCATION DISTRICT OF LAKE COUNTY: $872 → 8%Baldwin High School: $4k → 9%SPECIAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF LAKE COUNTY: $598 → 8%Friend of the Children's Justice Ce: $2k → 9%Lakeview School: $3k → 8%Baldwin High School: $2k → 9%FUSION ACADEMY: $143 → 8%Baldwin High School: $2k → 9%Baldwin High School: $944 → 9%Friends of the Children's Justice C: $719 → 9%PACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION (EIN 99-0207417): $100 → 9%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

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HI
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.
03Its 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.

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The International Dark-Sky Association Inc

Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.

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Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
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For the Fishes

To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…

Animals
6
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
7
Blue World Foundation Inc

To stabilize the population of marine species in danger, especially sharks and rays in the caribbean of guatemala; through science and community strengthening which will provide the creation of alternative livelihoods, which eventually…

Environment
8
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
9
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
10
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
11
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
12
International Snow Leopard Trust

The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kids Off the Block Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 28 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Baldwin High School: $9,008 · OtherBaldwin High SchoolState of Hawaii Dept of Education: $8,309 · OtherState of Hawaii Dept of EducationIndividual grant recipient: $3,402 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLakeview School: $2,610 · OtherLakeview SchoolFriend of the Children's Justice Ce: $2,384 · OtherFriend of the Children's Justice CeMaui High School: $1,897 · OtherMaui High School+13 more: $6,299 · Other+13 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $510 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $100 · HealthDONORSCHOOSEORG: $535 · EducationSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $360 · Housing & ShelterNA KOA MANU CONSERVATION INC: $200 · AnimalsPACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION: $100 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $50 · EnvironmentNETWORK FOR GOOD: $100 · Public Safety & DisasterKIDS OFF THE BLOCK INC: $100 · Youth Development
Other$33,909Health$610Education$535Housing & Shelter$360Animals$200Environment$150Public Safety & Disaster$100Youth Development$100

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 budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $535 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $510 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNA KOA MANU CONSERVATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS OFF THE BLOCK INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $50 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.

  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds NA KOA MANU CONSERVATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds KIDS OFF THE BLOCK INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rising Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rising Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 28 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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