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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.

$390k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.2MHealth$923kPhilanthropy$637kEducation$635kAnimals$475kYouth Development$333kEnvironment$293kFood & Nutrition$129kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $260k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$237k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $48k → 14%SHELTER BOX USA: $1k → 9%SHELTER BOX USA: $1k → 10%ABUSED DEAF WOMEN'S ADVOCACY SERVICES: $10k → 9%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $5k → 14%SHELTER BOX USA: $1k → 9%SHELTER BOX USA: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM INC: $3k → 7%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

VT
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CT
MO
VA
NC
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of Rmw Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 54% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 40%.

Rmw Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 15% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$5.3M · 43 repeat orgs$288k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
21

Total granted

$5.3M
$288k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+111%

Still filing today

77%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • MH
    MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $270k · revenue +43%
  • WHEATON COLLEGE
    4× · 2019–2022 · $160k · revenue +24%
  • WI
    WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $130k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN POTENTIAL
    one grant, 2021 · $80k
  • TA
    TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $36k · revenue +125%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +111%
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
Western New England University

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…

Education
2
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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3
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
4
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
5
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
6
The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College

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…

Education
7
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
8
The Hearst Foundation
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9
The Richard & Barbara Whitcomb Foundatio
Philanthropy
10
University of New Haven

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…

Education
11
Bentley University

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…

Education
12
Massachusetts Historical Society

To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina; 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.
05the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 66 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
39/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $355,823 · OtherST JOHN'S UNIVERSITYFOUNDATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL INC: $252,137 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HU…The Art Complex Inc: $240,000 · OtherThe Art Complex IncTHE ART COMPLEX MUSEUM: $203,744 · OtherTHE ART COMPLEX MUSEUMTHERESA A AND VINCENT J BAKER CHARITABLE TRUST: $154,000 · OtherTHERESA A AND VINCENT J BAKER CHARIT…ANIMAL SANCTUARY OF ST CROIX VALLEY: $145,000 · OtherANIMAL SANCTUARY OF ST CROIX VALLEYHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $101,255 · OtherHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCHFOUNDATION FOR HUMAN POTENTIAL: $80,000 · OtherWEYERHAEUSER FAMILY FOUNDATIONINC: $80,000 · Other+22 more: $257,000 · Other+22 moreHILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY: $968,840 · EducationHILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARYPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM: $170,000 · EducationPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAE…WHEATON COLLEGE: $160,000 · EducationWHEATON COLLEGEWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $130,000 · EducationWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY…BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL: $99,222 · EducationBRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOLAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT: $60,000 · Education+5 more: $122,000 · Education+5 moreTHE JONTY FOUNDATION JOSEPH S MICALLEF: $550,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JONTY FOUNDATI…NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $259,137 · PhilanthropyNORTH CAROLINA COM…United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $60,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way Of Mass…THE HOME FOR LIFE FOUNDATION JOSEPH S MICALLEF: $44,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $40,000 · PhilanthropyMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $270,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA…CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONS: $119,300 · Arts & CultureCHAMBER O…WGBH Educational Foundation: $71,000 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educ…+5 more: $23,000 · Arts & CultureFOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $240,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FARMS: $91,000 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $25,000 · EnvironmentNORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Environment+1 more: $8,000 · EnvironmentANIMAL SANCTUARY OF THE ST CROIX VALLEY: $240,000 · AnimalsPanacetacea: $90,000 · AnimalsRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $60,000 · HealthTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $36,000 · HealthDOWN SYNDROME DIAGNOSIS NETWORK: $5,000 · Health
Other$1,868,959Education$1,710,062Philanthropy$953,137Arts & Culture$483,300Environment$384,000Animals$330,000Health$101,000

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 budgetHILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY: $968,840 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JONTY FOUNDATION JOSEPH S MICALLEF: $550,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $270,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $259,137 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL INC: $252,137 over 3y, 100% of budgetANIMAL SANCTUARY OF THE ST CROIX VALLEY: $240,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetFOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $240,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetThe Art Complex Inc: $240,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM: $170,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $160,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $130,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONS: $119,300 over 6y, 52% of budgetBRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL: $99,222 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $91,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPanacetacea: $90,000 over 6y, 31% of budgetWEYERHAEUSER FAMILY FOUNDATIONINC: $80,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $71,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOVELANE SPECIAL NEEDS HORSEBACK RIDING PROGRAM INC: $54,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetPartnership With Native Americans: $53,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LIFE FOUNDATION JOSEPH S MICALLEF: $44,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetTHE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $36,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHancock Shaker Village Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCONFLUENCE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetABUSED DEAF WOMEN'S ADVOCACY SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHealth Care Without Walls Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOPERA HOUSE THEATRE COMPANY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME DIAGNOSIS NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAMP MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRAZIAS RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMorgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncFidelity FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…Amelia Peabody Charit…Rockland Trust - Blue…North Carolina Commun…Eastern Bank Foundati…Ibm International Fou…The Ayco Charitable F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Renaissance Charitabl…Morgan Stanley Global…
Boston Foundation IncMA19.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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.

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 66 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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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