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Robert and Ruth Halperin 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.

$7.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.7M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$43MCivil Rights$3.8MPhilanthropy$2.7MYouth Development$1.7MHealth$1.5MHuman Services$1.2MCrime & Legal$1.1MEnvironment$935kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k39 grants · $3.5M
  • $250k+5 grants · $4.1M
$100,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$151M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS$1,745,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$1,200,000
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS INC$575,000
SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS$375,000
GLOBAL IMPACT$250,000
EDVANCE$200,000
TEACH PLUS INC$200,000
SOBRATO EARLY ACADEMIC LANGUAGE$150,000
JUMPSTART$150,000
POLYBIO RESEARCH FOUNDATION$125,000
GROUNDSWELL FUND$125,000
ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING$125,000
PARENT TEACHER HOME VISITS$100,000
ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION$100,000
CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER$100,000
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, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $75k → 22%BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $600 → 12%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $50k → 22%LITTLE WISHES: $10k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $250k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $225k → 10%COLEMAN ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH: $50k → 10%COLEMAN ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH: $50k → 10%COLEMAN ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH: $50k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $350k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $200k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $120k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $100k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $2k → 10%FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS: $50k → 10%FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTER: $50k → 10%FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTER INC: $25k → 10%FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS: $25k → 10%FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTER: $25k → 10%PORTOLA FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $25k → 10%AIM HIGH: $100k → 10%AIM HIGH: $50k → 10%AIM HIGH: $50k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 10%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$43M · 93 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 +43% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

93 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

93
47

Total granted

$43M
$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+14%

Still filing today

83%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $425k 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
EducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TC
    THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +139% · 64% of their budget
  • PF
    PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +112%
  • SS
    SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN
    one grant, 2020 · $210k · revenue +21%
  • CD
    Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $210k · revenue -63%
  • AG
    ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $200k

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
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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2
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
3
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
4
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
5
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
6
Innovate Public Schools

Build the parent and community demand for world-class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low-income students, students of colors, and students with special needs.

Philanthropy
7
Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

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8
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
9
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
10
California Competes

Established in 2011, our mission is to help transform the state's higher education system into an engine of economic opportunity that empowers all californians, particularly those from underserved communities, to achieve their full…

Education
11
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

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12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Latinos for Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Making Waves Foundation Inc Aka Making Waves Education Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Development ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community College Foundatio…Domestic Violence ServicesCancer Support ServicesJewish Community Organizati…School Parent OrganizationsLgbtq+ Community SupportImmigrant Worker SupportFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Development CentersElementary Literacy TutoringPolicy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Developm…Independent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr13%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%49%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr11%8%35–55yr13%5%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/114
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,864

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

113 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. 113 of the 156 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/113
Grantees still filing
78/113
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS — $15,170,000 · EducationTHE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERSTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $9,022,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS — $1,450,000 · EducationSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $1,385,000 · Education+36 more — $9,830,892 · Education+36 moreINTERNATIONALS NETWORK FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $600,000 · OtherOAKLAND INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL — $550,000 · OtherSOBRATO EARLY ACADEMIC LANGUAGE — $550,000 · OtherSAFE & SOUND — $500,000 · OtherUniversity of Michigan — $400,000 · OtherJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER — $400,000 · Other+70 more — $8,469,530 · Other+70 moreNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $600,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $550,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $505,000 · Civil RightsSan Francisco CASA — $500,000 · Civil RightsCalifornians For Justice Education Fund — $300,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC — $225,000 · Civil RightsChinese for Affirmative Action — $200,000 · Civil Rights+3 more — $59,000 · Civil RightsTIDES CENTER — $772,700 · Human ServicesCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES — $700,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN NOW — $475,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS — $200,000 · Human ServicesAIM HIGH — $200,000 · Human ServicesColeman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth — $150,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE — $125,000 · Human Services+3 more — $12,200 · Human ServicesPARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION — $720,000 · PhilanthropyGroundswell Fund — $425,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $407,000 · PhilanthropyBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE — $225,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $200,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MENDOCINO COUNTY — $100,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $275,000 · PhilanthropyNEW VENTURE FUND — $1,445,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $650,000 · EnvironmentTen Strands — $185,000 · EnvironmentNEXTGEN CLIMATE AMERICA INC — $100,000 · EnvironmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO — $575,000 · Youth DevelopmentCalifornians Dedicated to Education Foundation — $210,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS INC — $150,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $17,000 · Youth Development
Education$36,857,892Other$11,469,530Civil Rights$2,939,000Human Services$2,634,900Philanthropy$2,502,000Environment$2,380,000Youth Development$952,000

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 budgetTHE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS — $15,170,000 over 8y, 64% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $9,022,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS — $1,450,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $1,445,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $1,385,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $1,100,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetNEW TEACHER CENTER — $1,030,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $772,700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION — $720,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES — $700,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTEACHorg Inc — $650,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $650,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONALS NETWORK FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $600,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetEDVANCE COLLEGE — $600,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc — $600,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $600,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO — $575,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $550,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $505,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSan Francisco CASA — $500,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetSAFE & SOUND — $500,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN NOW — $475,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTEACHING LAB — $450,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMEB ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATOR DIVERSITY INC — $450,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetGroundswell Fund — $425,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $407,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $400,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER — $400,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetUNBOUNDED LEARNING INC — $400,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCALIFORNIANS TOGETHER — $400,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $400,000 over 2y, 95% of budgetTEACH PLUS INC — $350,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCalifornians For Justice Education Fund — $300,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Impact — $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE — $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR BILINGUAL EDUCATION — $300,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetINSTRUCTION PARTNERS — $280,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc — $250,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPOLYBIO RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMARCH FOR OUR LIVES FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE — $225,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC — $225,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN — $210,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCalifornians Dedicated to Education Foundation — $210,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS — $200,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW TEACHER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION ↗
  • Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds TEACHorg Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONALS NETWORK FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds EDVANCE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds The Education Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING ↗
  • Who funds San Francisco CASA ↗
  • Who funds SAFE & SOUND ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN NOW ↗
  • Who funds TEACHING LAB ↗
  • Who funds MEB ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATOR DIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Groundswell Fund ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
  • Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNBOUNDED LEARNING INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds TEACH PLUS INC ↗
  • Who funds Californians For Justice Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Global Impact ↗
  • Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR BILINGUAL EDUCATION ↗

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.

The William & Flora H…Gates FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…Elbridge Stuart Found…Marin Community Found…The Sobrato Family Fo…Carnegie Corporation …The Heising-Simons Fo…The California Endowm…Evelyn and Walter Haa…The Silver Lining Fou…
The William & Flora Hewlett FoundationCA42.1× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Gates Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · The Heising-Simons Foundation · The California Endowment · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund · The Silver Lining 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 Robert and Ruth Halperin 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
33report 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

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 Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert and Ruth Halperin 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 156 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.

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