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Rock What You Got Fund

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.

$700
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$500
Largest grant, FY2023
$500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$2k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Rock What You Got Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20232$700100%
FY20229$4kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.

Health$3kCivil Rights$1kCommunity Improvement$200Education$53Environment$26Human Services$10

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Gender Justice$78710%
Our Justice$78610%
Whole Woman's Health Alliance$52510%
Planned Parenthood North Central States$52510%
We Health Clinic P A$52510%
The Woman's Club of Minneapolis$20010%
Thomas Irvine Dodge Nature Center$2610%
TEDxMinneapolis Incorporated$1010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($1k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rock What You Got Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGender Justice: $787 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOur Justice: $786 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWhole Woman's Health Alliance: $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood North Central States: $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWe Health Clinic P A: $525 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Woman's Club of Minneapolis: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThomas Irvine Dodge Nature Center: $26 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEDxMinneapolis Incorporated: $10 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 8.

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.

Women's Foundation of…The Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Hrk FoundationHopewell FundNew Venture FundAmerican Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Women's Foundation of MinnesotaMN15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Women's Foundation of Minnesota · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Hrk Foundation · Hopewell Fund · New Venture Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Rock What You Got Fund?

Find your warmest path to Rock What You Got Fund 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 Rock What You Got Fund

How much does Rock What You Got Fund give?
Rock What You Got Fund reported 2 grants totaling $700 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Rock What You Got Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (65%), Civil Rights (29%), Community Improvement (4%).
Who are Rock What You Got Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2023: Gender Justice ($787), Our Justice ($786), Whole Woman's Health Alliance ($525).
Does Rock What You Got Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rock What You Got Fund 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 Rock What You Got Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Women's Foundation of Minnesota, The Minneapolis Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
Where is Rock What You Got Fund based?
Rock What You Got Fund is based in MN.

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 11 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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