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Rita Allen Foundation Inc

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.

$5.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
101
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$14MScience & Tech$7.0MHealth$6.3MPhilanthropy$3.5MPublic Benefit$2.0MArts & Culture$1.5MSocial Science$1.0MEnvironment$689kOther$0
02FY2024 · 101 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $705k
  • $50k–250k53 grants · $4.8M
$50,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$203M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MULTIPLIER$200,000
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY (WM)$190,000
RESEARCHAMERICA$175,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$110,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$110,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$110,000
RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY$110,000
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL$110,000
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$110,000
ROCKEDU SCIENCE OUTREACH AT THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$105,000
SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES$100,000
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$100,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$100,000
THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY (PRIMARY)$100,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–24, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BUCKS FOR KIDS: $100 → 6%THE SEEING EYE INC: $30k → 12%THE EMERGENCY ACTION NETWORK: $5k → 7%THE SEEING EYE INC: $30k → 12%NETWORK OF VICTIM ASSISTANCE: $100 → 6%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 10%AUTISM CARES FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 10%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 10%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 10%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 10%NATIONAL SCIENCE POLICY NETWORK: $1k → 10%ARM IN ARM: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 — 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 17% of Rita Allen Foundation Inc’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.

Rita Allen Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.2% directed abroad (not shown)

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 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$26M · 127 repeat orgs$5.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

127 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 82 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

127
128

Total granted

$26M
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+26%

Still filing today

65%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyScience & TechHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • R
    RESEARCHAMERICA
    6× · 2019–2024 · $995k · revenue +130%
  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $940k · revenue +13%
  • AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $787k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • US
    UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $220k
  • SP
    SCIENCE PHILANTHROPY ALLIANCE (NEW VENTURE FUND FA)
    one grant, 2019 · $175k
  • TR
    THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ON BEHALF OF ITS LOS ANGELES CA
    one grant, 2023 · $120k

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
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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3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
5
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
6
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Manhattanville University

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

Education
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is From LOSS2LIFE Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Animal Rescue and ShelterAffordable Housing Developm…Women & Girls Leadership De…United Way AffiliatesDomestic Violence ServicesPublic Library OperationsFood Banks and PantriesCancer Support ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Arts CentersYouth Mentoring ProgramsCommunity College Foundatio…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%50%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/198
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,367

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

185 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 185 of the 299 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
180/185
Grantees still filing
139/185
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RESEARCHAMERICA — $995,000 · OtherRESEARCHAMERICAUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO — $830,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $605,000 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $600,000 · Other+109 more — $14,369,048 · Other+109 moreTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $1,427,434 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,350,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LE…CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $940,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOL…BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $910,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $845,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvar…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $400,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $393,000 · Education+37 more — $4,026,390 · Education+37 moreAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE — $787,400 · Science & TechAMERICAN AS…NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $773,782 · Science & TechNATIONAL AC…COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $637,000 · Science & TechCOLD SPRING…SCIENCE COMMUNICATION LAB INC — $326,043 · Science & TechSCIENCE COM…The Salk Institute for Biological Studies — $300,000 · Science & TechThe Salk In…INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION — $265,000 · Science & TechINSTITUTE F…CLIMATE CENTRAL INC — $190,000 · Science & TechSCIENCE FRIDAY INITIATIVE INC — $150,000 · Science & Tech+4 more — $292,000 · Science & Tech+4 moreROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $700,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND — $505,000 · PhilanthropyPhilanthropy for Active Civic Engagement — $220,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $175,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR EFFECTIVE PHILANTHROPY INC — $150,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · PhilanthropyUMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ROSALIND FRANKLIN SOCIETY INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyCOUNCIL OF NEW JERSEY GRANTMAKERS INC — $81,450 · Philanthropy+3 more — $160,100 · PhilanthropyWGBH Educational Foundation — $575,000 · Arts & CultureMEDIA IMPACT FUNDERS INC — $415,000 · Arts & CultureASSOCIATION OF SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY CENTERS INC — $318,365 · Arts & CultureTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE — $120,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $100,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $105,000 · Arts & CultureST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $400,000 · HealthFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $300,000 · HealthH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $200,000 · HealthTHE MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH INC — $90,000 · HealthHEALTH RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $60,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation — $52,000 · HealthUNITED STATES ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF PAIN INC — $46,000 · Health+1 more — $20,000 · HealthNEW VENTURE FUND — $432,500 · EnvironmentMULTIPLIER — $270,000 · Environment
Other$17,399,048Education$10,291,824Science & Tech$3,721,225Philanthropy$2,341,550Arts & Culture$1,633,365Health$1,168,000Environment$702,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $1,427,434 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,350,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRESEARCHAMERICA — $995,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $940,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $910,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $845,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE — $787,400 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $773,782 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $700,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $637,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation — $575,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $550,000 over 4y, 67% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $505,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $432,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA IMPACT FUNDERS INC — $415,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $393,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFULBRIGHT US-UK FOUNDATION — $369,050 over 4y, 73% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $342,344 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCIENCIA PUERTO RICO INC — $326,086 over 3y, 20% of budgetSCIENCE COMMUNICATION LAB INC — $326,043 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetASSOCIATION OF SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY CENTERS INC — $318,365 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetFUTURE PROOF INSTITUTE INC — $310,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $310,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies — $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK INC — $285,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMULTIPLIER — $270,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION — $265,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRESEARCH4IMPACT INC — $255,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIGMA XI THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH HONOR SOCIETY INC — $238,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetPhilanthropy for Active Civic Engagement — $220,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $218,399 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCornell University — $205,855 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE CENTRAL INC — $190,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONVERSATION US INC — $175,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetFEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS — $175,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $160,442 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RESEARCHAMERICA ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA IMPACT FUNDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FULBRIGHT US-UK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CIENCIA PUERTO RICO INC ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE COMMUNICATION LAB INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds FUTURE PROOF INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
  • Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
  • Who funds SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK INC ↗

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.

Gordon E and Betty I …The Robert Wood Johns…Bristol-Myers Squibb …Princeton Area Commun…John S and James L Kn…Community Foundation …The Heising-Simons Fo…The Ford FoundationThe Kavli FoundationDemocracy Fund IncThe William & Flora H…The William Penn Foun…
Gordon E and Betty I Moore FoundationCA38.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Heising-Simons Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Kavli Foundation · Democracy Fund Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The William Penn 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 organization Rita Allen Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 290%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Trenton Health Team Inc — 31% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • D&r Greenway Land Trust Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation — 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • People and Stories Gente Y Cuentos — 7% of income from government
  • United States Association for the Study of Pain Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Arm in Arm Inc — 4% of income from government
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
  • The Watershed Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
  • American Physical Society — 1% of income from government
  • The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc — 0% of income from government
  • New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
29get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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: 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 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Rita Allen Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Rita Allen Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 299 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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