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Robert V Rasmussen Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$35k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
43%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,300
Largest grant, FY2025
$17,500
Organizations funded a year
7 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$388k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Robert V Rasmussen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesYouth 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$35k75%
FY20247$33k43%
FY202313$26k31%
FY202217$40k53%
FY20219$21k67%
FY20209$25k33%
FY201910$27k50%
FY201811$33k45%
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What it funded, over time

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

Education$79kYouth Development$36kHealth$34kArts & Culture$30kEnvironment$17kAnimals$16kReligion$8kHuman Services$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
IA
IN
CT
AZ
NC
DC
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Palmer Trinity Private School Inc$59,50070%
Miami Film Labinc$37,500324%
Marine Discovery Center$14,00040%
Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc$13,03750%
Church of Bethesda by the Sea Inc$13,0003n/a
The Boys' Club of New York$13,00030%
Boomer Esiason Foundation$9,35040%
Trustees of Phillips Academy$3,77830%
The Spence School$3,50030%
Save the Manatee Club Inc$3,00010%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($61k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert V Rasmussen Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPalmer Trinity Private School Inc: $59,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMiami Film Labinc: $37,500 over 3y, 24% of budgetMarine Discovery Center: $14,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $13,037 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Boys' Club of New York: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBoomer Esiason Foundation: $9,350 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Phillips Academy: $3,778 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Spence School: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave the Manatee Club Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Carolina Coastal Federation Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPomfret School Incorporated: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Toxaway Charities: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Deering Estate Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island Council on Alcoholism & Drug Dependence Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Polg Foundation Inc: $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTroopers Memorial Fund Inc: $1,600 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPennys Flight Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Southampton Fresh Air Home: $1,450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of the City of New York: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPripet Riding Program: $1,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMontgomery Area Non-Traditional Equestri: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetW20 Foundation: $650 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSCPD Cops Who Care Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNew York City Ballet Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSandy Hook Promise Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZeta Tau Alpha Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Burn Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBath and Tennis Club Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlam4Good Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.

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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.

The Allen Family Foundation IncNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Robert V Rasmussen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert V Rasmussen 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.

About Robert V Rasmussen Foundation

How much does Robert V Rasmussen Foundation give?
Robert V Rasmussen Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $35,010 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Robert V Rasmussen Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Youth Development (16%), Health (15%).
Who are Robert V Rasmussen Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Palmer Trinity Private School Inc ($60k), Miami Film Labinc ($38k), Marine Discovery Center ($14k).
Does Robert V Rasmussen Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert V Rasmussen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Robert V Rasmussen Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Allen Family Foundation Inc, Duke Energy Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Robert V Rasmussen Foundation based?
Robert V Rasmussen Foundation is based in NY.

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 54 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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