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Rmlow 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.

$505k
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$719kCommunity Improvement$322kHuman Services$306kReligion$286kCrime & Legal$274kYouth Development$217kInternational$187kRecreation & Sports$121kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k43 grants · $113k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $222k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $170k
$3,600
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROP ORGANIZATION$60,000
NORTH HENNEPIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$60,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$50,000
13TH TRIBE$37,800
HOLLINS UNIVERSITY$30,000
COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA$30,000
THE KITCHEN$24,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND$20,000
CHABAD OF COLE VALLEY$19,800
CONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY RESOLUTION$18,000
MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE$18,000
CAMP TAWONGA$12,100
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY$12,000
CONGREGATION EMANU-EL$6,882
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO$6,432
02The need
03

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, $317k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%13TH TRIBE: $38k → 8%13TH TRIBE: $36k → 8%13TH TRIBE: $36k → 8%LA LUZ CENTER: $3k → 9%CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S LAW & POLICY: $6k → 14%CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S LAW AND POLICY: $3k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $25k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $6k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $6k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $6k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $6k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $4k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $4k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $4k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $4k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $4k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH: $24k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH: $20k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH: $18k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH: $18k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH: $18k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $8k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $4k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $4k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
NM
KS
NC
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 79 repeat orgs$525k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

79 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
71

Total granted

$2.3M
$373k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+27%

Still filing today

59%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CO
    CROP ORGANIZATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $192k · revenue ×18
  • AH
    AIM HIGH
    4× · 2018–2021 · $118k · revenue +103%
  • 1
    13THTRIBEORG
    3× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +60% · 41% of their budget

Funded once

  • AT
    ANOKA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +46%
  • SP
    SAINT PAUL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • TA
    TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $18k
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.

1
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
3
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
4
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
5
California Institute of Integral Studies

Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…

Education
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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7
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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8
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
9
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
12
Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is Watering Minds 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

116 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. 116 of the 173 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/116
Grantees still filing
69/116
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KITCHEN SLOW DOWN JEW UP: $96,000 · OtherKITCHEN SLOW DOWN JEW UPCHABAD OF COLE VALLEY: $83,480 · OtherCHABAD OF COLE VALLEYIndividual grant recipient: $65,000 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANU-EL: $64,282 · OtherPAWS FOR LIFE FOR K9 RESCUE: $60,000 · OtherNORTH HENNEPIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $60,000 · OtherTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $73,205 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $49,000 · Other+113 more: $821,479 · Other+113 moreEXODUS SCHOOL: $199,000 · EducationEXODUS SCHOOLHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $80,000 · EducationHOLLINS UNIVERSITY…CONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY RESOLUTION: $34,980 · EducationCONVERGENCE CENTER…DEFY VENTURES INC: $30,070 · EducationDEFY VENTURES INCCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC: $30,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF ST SCHO…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $21,000 · EducationJewish Commmunity High School of the Bay: $18,000 · EducationPRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE: $18,000 · Education+11 more: $75,442 · Education+11 moreAIM HIGH: $118,000 · Human ServicesAIM HIGH13THTRIBEORG: $109,800 · Human Services13THTRIBEORGLarkin Street Youth Services: $98,100 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Yo…JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $49,782 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY…HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $18,412 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $15,000 · Human Services+3 more: $26,000 · Human Services+3 moreCROP ORGANIZATION: $192,000 · Crime & LegalMONTGOMERY BAIL OUT FUND: $18,000 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $9,000 · Crime & LegalPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $100,400 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $65,900 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $9,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $16,400 · PhilanthropyMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $144,000 · Community ImprovementDELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION: $45,000 · Community ImprovementMEET INTERNATIONAL INC: $18,600 · InternationalAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $18,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA: $18,000 · InternationalHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $14,400 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND: $10,284 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $7,200 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $5,000 · InternationalUKRAINIAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $3,600 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $3,600 · International+2 more: $4,800 · International
Other$1,432,446Education$506,492Human Services$435,094Crime & Legal$219,000Philanthropy$191,700Community Improvement$189,000International$103,484

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEXODUS SCHOOL: $199,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCROP ORGANIZATION: $192,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $144,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAIM HIGH: $118,000 over 4y, 11% of budget13THTRIBEORG: $109,800 over 3y, 41% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $100,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services: $98,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $73,205 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $65,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH HENNEPIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $49,782 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $49,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION: $45,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetIMAGINE BUS PROJECT: $36,880 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetCONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY RESOLUTION: $34,980 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUltimate Impact Inc: $34,523 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA: $32,550 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDEFY VENTURES INC: $30,070 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEducation Outside: $28,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetANOKA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDEEPWATER EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION PROJECT: $20,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetMEET INTERNATIONAL INC: $18,600 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $18,412 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW PRESS INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIntersection for the Arts: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Commmunity High School of the Bay: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE: $18,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA: $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY: $18,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $14,438 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNEW BREATH FOUNDATION: $14,371 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFrameline Inc: $13,725 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABRAHAM PATH INITIATIVE INC: $12,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA: $11,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLUND UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,800 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $10,284 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWISSAHICKON CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds EXODUS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CROP ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AIM HIGH ↗
  • Who funds 13THTRIBEORG ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
  • Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds TAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
  • Who funds NORTH HENNEPIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds IMAGINE BUS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds CONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY RESOLUTION ↗
  • Who funds Ultimate Impact Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA ↗
  • Who funds DEFY VENTURES INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Education Outside ↗
  • Who funds ANOKA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DEEPWATER EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds MEET INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW PRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY BAIL OUT FUND ↗

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.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA39.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Koret Foundation · John Pritzker Family Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · Howard and Irene Levine Family Foundation · New Israel Fund · East Bay Community Foundation · Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation · Dare 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 Rmlow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rmlow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    31report 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
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 173 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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