How much does Rm2 Foundation give?

Rm2 Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $170,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Rm2 Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (88%), International (3%), Philanthropy (2%).

Who are Rm2 Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation ($5.3M), Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island ($128k), Birthright Israel Foundation ($82k).

Does Rm2 Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Rm2 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 Rm2 Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ira S& Anna Galkin Charitable Tr, The Champlin Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.

Rm2 Foundation

Rm2 Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Rm2 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.

$170k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$154k

Largest

01What it funds

0187% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$5.3MInternational$196kPhilanthropy$128kCivil Rights$75kArts & Culture$55kHealth$46kReligion$45kEducation$12kOther$0

02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $6k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$50k–250k1 grant · $154k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	$154,000
CERE	$10,000
OMNI-MED	$3,000
FUND FOR URI & HILLEL	$3,000

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 (FY17–24, $5.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.7M · 10 repeat orgs$278k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.7M

$278k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+17%

Still filing today

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesInternationalHealthArts & CultureEducationReligionOther

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

OS
OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
7× · 2017–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +33%
JA
JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND
4× · 2017–2022 · $128k · revenue +15%
THE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC
2× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +90%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $100k
FT
FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC
one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -15%
Trinity Repertory Companygraduated
one grant, 2017 · $32k · revenue +52%

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.

Sherit Isroel

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University of Judaism Foundation

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The Shalem Foundation

To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.

Crime & Legal

Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida

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American Friends of Kohelet Policy Forum

The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.

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The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International

The Jerusalem Connection

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Foundation Stone Institute Inc

To promote a positive relationship between catholics and israelis.

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The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture

American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion

Physicians for Palestine

Health

American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism 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

13 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. 13 of the 24 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)

13/13

Grantees still filing

9/13

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$5,417,415Other$342,341International$102,000Civil Rights$75,000Philanthropy$36,000Arts & Culture$31,630Health$20,750

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.

Ira S& Anna Galkin Charitable TrRI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ira S& Anna Galkin Charitable Tr · The Champlin Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Rm2 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rm2 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

3report 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.

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How do I get to Rm2 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rm2 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.

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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