· Private foundation
Rmw 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $260k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY | $75,000 |
| ANIMAL SANCTUARY OF ST CROIX VALLEY | $50,000 |
| ART COMPLEX INC | $40,000 |
| HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY | $35,000 |
| HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY | $30,000 |
| ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $20,000 |
| PANACETACEA | $15,000 |
| FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| WEYERHAEUSER FAMILY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO | $10,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT INC | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Rmw Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 54% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 40% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
43 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MHMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY6× · 2019–2024 · $270k · revenue +43%
WHEATON COLLEGE4× · 2019–2022 · $160k · revenue +24%- WIWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC4× · 2019–2022 · $130k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR HUMAN POTENTIALone grant, 2021 · $80k
- TATRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $36k · revenue +125%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +111%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
Located in south hadley, massachusetts, mount holyoke college is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, research liberal arts college for women that is gender-diverse and welcomes applications from female, transgender, and…
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina and the most unlike its peers is The Art Complex Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 22% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
52 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. 52 of the 66 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE JONTY FOUNDATION JOSEPH S MICALLEF ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SANCTUARY OF THE ST CROIX VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Art Complex Inc ↗
- Who funds PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONS ↗
- Who funds BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds Panacetacea ↗
- Who funds WEYERHAEUSER FAMILY FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds LOVELANE SPECIAL NEEDS HORSEBACK RIDING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Partnership With Native Americans ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LIFE FOUNDATION JOSEPH S MICALLEF ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Hancock Shaker Village Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONFLUENCE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Rmw 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.
- New England Forestry Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc — 17% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hancock Shaker Village Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Holly Hill Farm Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc — 1% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Rmw Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Rmw 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.