California · Private foundation
Rjm 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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
91% of Rjm Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 8
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $96M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Rjm Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $100k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $4.8M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $300k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $14M | 75% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $7.3M | 40% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $2.3M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $2.3M | 0% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $4.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sacred Heart Schools Atherton | $2,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kqed Inc | $540,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dress for Success San Francisco | $200,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Humane Society of the North Bay | $100,000 | 1 | 9% |
| The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Acknowledge Alliance | $100,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Lewis W Butler Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 6% |
| The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Leap Arts in Education Fka Leap Imagination in Learning | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sacred Heart Schools Atherton | $2,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kqed Inc | $540,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dress for Success San Francisco | $200,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Humane Society of the North Bay | $100,000 | 1 | 9% |
| The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Acknowledge Alliance | $100,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Lewis W Butler Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 6% |
| The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Leap Arts in Education Fka Leap Imagination in Learning | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Peccadillo Theater Company Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 7% |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($33M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rjm Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Rjm Foundation
- How much does Rjm Foundation give?
- Rjm Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $1,100,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Rjm Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (93%), Health (4%), Arts & Culture (1%).
- Who are Rjm Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sacred Heart Schools Atherton ($2.0M), Kqed Inc ($540k), The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($500k).
- Does Rjm Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rjm Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rjm Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Rjm Foundation based?
- Rjm Foundation is based in CA.
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