How much does Rlh Foundation give?

Rlh Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $175,490 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Rlh Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Religion (15%), Arts & Culture (15%).

Who are Rlh Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hampden-Sydney College ($125k), Rush University Medical Center ($108k), The Conservancy of Southwest Florida ($105k).

Does Rlh Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Rlh 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 Rlh Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc.

Rlh Foundation

Rlh Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Rlh 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.

$175k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$80k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$359kReligion$161kArts & Culture$160kHealth$121kEnvironment$110kYouth Development$44kPhilanthropy$38kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0

02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k14 grants · $51k
$10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$50k–250k1 grant · $80k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
HAMPDEN SYDNEY COLLEGE	$80,000
OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY	$14,500
NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY	$10,000
PHI GAMMA DELTA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION	$10,000
RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER	$10,000
CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA	$7,740
CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMFORTER	$6,500
ARTIS-NAPLES	$6,250
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
SLEEPING BEAR GATEWAYS COUNCIL	$5,000
EVANS SCHOLAR FOUNDATION	$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHICAGO	$3,500
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO	$3,000
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION	$2,500
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$2,500

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$908k · 31 repeat orgs$132k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$908k

$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

+10%

Still filing today

68%

37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther

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

HC
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE
9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +76%
RU
Rush University Medical Center
9× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +51%
THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +561%

Funded once

TC
THE CHICAGO CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +14%
DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +44%
TF
THE FRAT OF PHI GAMMA DELTA
one grant, 2023 · $10k

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.

Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture

DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education

Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education

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

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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University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

Music Institute of Chicago

The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.

Arts & Culture

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

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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Northern Illinois University Foundation

The niu foundation's mission is to energize and connect the private sector with the niu community to secure and steward resources that support the future and growth of niu.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Theatre Group Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nissan 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

49 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. 49 of the 94 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

49/49

Grantees still filing

29/49

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$531,743Education$288,750Health$113,200Arts & Culture$84,650Philanthropy$16,000Housing & Shelter$5,500Environment$5,000

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

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL19.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Rlh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rlh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

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.

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More from the funding graph

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 endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home