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Rmf 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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$5.2MFood & Nutrition$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.5MArts & Culture$1.1MEducation$875kYouth Development$865kInternational$500kHuman Services$385kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $256k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $883k
  • $250k+2 grants · $550k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$300,000
OREGON FOOD BANK$250,000
PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION$200,000
PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION$105,000
PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION$102,938
DE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$100,000
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM$100,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$100,000
CHARITABLE PARTNERSHIP FUND$75,000
THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION$50,000
COACH ART$50,000
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM$45,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC$40,000
MY VOICE MUSIC$25,000
MICHELLE'S LOVE$25,000
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 (FY17–24, $868k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAIRBANKS YOUTH ADVOCATES: $13k → 21%OREGON CHILD DEVELOPMENT COALITION: $50k → 8%OREGON HARBOR OF HOPE: $50k → 12%JOIN: $100k → 12%JOIN: $100k → 12%JOIN: $100k → 12%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $100k → 12%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $60k → 12%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $25k → 12%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $25k → 12%JANUS YOUTH PROGRAMS: $50k → 12%JANUS YOUTH PROGRAMS: $50k → 12%JANUS YOUTH PROGRAMS: $50k → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE: $35k → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE: $35k → 12%IMPACT NW: $25k → 12%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

AK
WA
MN
NY
OR
CA
MD
TN
DC

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.

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.7M · 29 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
23

Total granted

$8.7M
$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+27%

Still filing today

90%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentOther

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

  • OREGON FOOD BANK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +70%
  • PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
    3× · 2019–2024 · $820k · revenue +57%
  • PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $796k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • LH
    LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.5M · revenue ×18
  • OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.5M · revenue +79%
  • STAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +10%

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
Oregon Center for Public Policy

The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…

Employment
2
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
3
Portland Business Alliance

To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.

Community Improvement
4
Priority Oregon

To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.

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5
LArche Portland

At l'arche portland people with and without developmental disabilities create home and build community together. we nurture long-term mutual relationships that reveal the gifts of people with developmental disabilities. in doing so we…

Human Services
6
Friends of the Children-Portland

Friends - portland commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…

Youth Development
7
Youth Progress Association

Youth progress is a nonprofit organization that is licensed as a child caring agency (cca) to serve youth ages 12-25 in the custody of the oregon youth authority (oya) or the oregon department of human services (dhs). youth progress uses…

Health
8
Thrive Central Oregon

To connect individuals to the housing and community resources they seek.

Human Services
9
Our House of Portland Inc

Guided by compassion, collaboration and respect, our house provided oregon and southwest washington's only integrated continuum of health and housing services to people with hiv.

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10
Oregon Coast Community Action

Positive change for thriving communities: to empower people to work toward social and economic independence, otherwise improving the lives of those served by the corporation, under relevant community services block grant programs.

Housing & Shelter
11
Welcome Home Coalition

Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…

Community Improvement
12
Our Children Oregon

Our children oregon's mission is to be a voice and force for the common good for all oregon children, ensuring all children have the resources and opportunities they need to reach their full potential. we elevate data and the voices of…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Path Home and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr21%27%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr13%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr21%18%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr13%32%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
11%
3,127/28,093

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.

04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 57 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
38/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 · HealthLEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATIONPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $796,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FO…PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $444,938 · HealthPROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL …Central City Concern — $300,000 · HealthCentral City ConcernPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $200,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION …PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC — $140,000 · Health+2 more — $125,000 · HealthOREGON FOOD BANK — $1,800,000 · OtherOREGON FOOD BANKHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $418,750 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $300,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONDE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL — $200,000 · OtherInternational Rescue Committee INC — $300,000 · OtherInternational Rescue Committee INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $200,000 · OtherHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $200,000 · Other+18 more — $1,158,180 · Other+18 moreOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 · EducationOREGON HEALTH …+3 more — $140,000 · Education+3 morePORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $820,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND AR…THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LIBRARY…MY VOICE MUSIC INC — $175,000 · Arts & CultureMY VOICE MU…ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE PORTLAND — $50,000 · Arts & CultureVENICE ARTS — $50,000 · Arts & CultureJOIN — $300,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $210,000 · Human ServicesJANUS YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT LEMONADE INC — $140,000 · Human ServicesOregon Child Development Coalition — $50,000 · Human ServicesOREGON TRAIL OF HOPE — $50,000 · Human Services+2 more — $37,500 · Human ServicesCOACHARTORG — $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC — $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND — $250,000 · Housing & ShelterPATH HOME — $225,000 · Housing & ShelterREACH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterROSE HAVEN CIC — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterPEAR — $25,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$3,505,938Other$4,576,930Education$1,640,000Arts & Culture$1,345,000Human Services$937,500Youth Development$550,000Housing & Shelter$550,000

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 budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $1,800,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $820,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $796,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $444,938 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCentral City Concern — $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOACHARTORG — $300,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetJOIN — $300,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND — $250,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetPATH HOME — $225,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $210,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $200,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMY VOICE MUSIC INC — $175,000 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $150,680 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITABLE PARTNERSHIP FUND — $150,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC — $140,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT LEMONADE INC — $140,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $125,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE PORTLAND — $50,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetVENICE ARTS — $50,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetKAIROSPDX — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOregon Child Development Coalition — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlliance for Equity in Montessori Education — $50,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetOREGON TRAIL OF HOPE — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetVictory Academy Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Trees — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMICHELLES LOVE — $25,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREACH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSISTERS OF THE ROAD INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetIMPACT NW — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEAR — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTransition Projects Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUTSIDE IN — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOUR UNITED VILLAGES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOLVE — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFAIRBANKS YOUTH ADVOCATES — $12,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCLACKAMAS COUNTY PEACE OFFICERS BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 12% 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.

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.

OCF Joseph E Weston P…The Oregon Community …Meyer Memorial TrustThe Collins FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…Juan Young TrustMaybelle Clark Macdon…Hillman Family Founda…The Jackson FoundationCareoregon IncThe Reser Family Foun…The Autzen Foundation
OCF Joseph E Weston Public FoundationOR47.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Collins Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Juan Young Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Hillman Family Foundations · The Jackson Foundation · Careoregon Inc · The Reser Family Foundation · The Autzen 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 Rmf Foundation 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 · 90%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Oregon Child Development Coalition — 100% of income from government
  • Friends of Trees — 100% of income from government
  • Alliance for Equity in Montessori Education — 65% of income from government
  • Neighborhood House Inc — 53% of income from government
  • Janus Youth Programs Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Outside in — 33% of income from government
  • Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon — 31% of income from government
  • Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Kairospdx — 19% of income from government
  • Reach Community Development Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
  • My Voice Music Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
  • Impact Nw — 8% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Providence Portland Medical Foundation — 5% of income from government
  • Solve — 5% of income from government
  • The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization — 4% of income from government
  • Join — 4% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Pear — 1% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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 Rmf Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rmf 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.

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 57 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.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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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