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Room to Breathe Project

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
80%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 20
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$114M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 80% of the organizations Room to Breathe Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
InternationalEducationHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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
FY2024still arriving17$2.8M47%
FY202320$1.9M80%
FY202213$984k54%
FY202110$927k70%
FY20209$1.4M89%
FY20193$48kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.4MPhilanthropy$2.3MHealth$1.7MHuman Services$1.3MInternational$758kArts & Culture$601kYouth Development$459kHousing & Shelter$270kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
NV
CA
CO
VA
DC
HI

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Room to Breathe Project supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSeneca Family of Agencies: $1,299,178 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPeer Health Exchange Inc: $1,225,050 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetUS Foundation for Queen's University at Kingston: $757,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSan Francisco Education Fund: $637,769 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetIlluminate the Arts: $500,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTipping Point Community: $350,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSan Francisco University High School: $335,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMission Graduates: $322,550 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation: $265,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetChildren's Day School Inc: $237,550 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Insead Management Education Foundation: $203,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHealth Career Connection Inc: $138,400 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Primary School Lab: $45,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSan Francisco Elite Academy: $26,750 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $16,880 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Cocina: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWellness Together: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShare Our Strength: $5,032 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTahoe Food Hub: $1,556 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMental Health America Inc: $159 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStreet Soccer USA Inc: $62 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $38 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $38 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $21 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $18 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 27.

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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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA18.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Mimi and Peter Haas Fund · Quest Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust

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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About Room to Breathe Project

How much does Room to Breathe Project give?
Room to Breathe Project reported 27 grants totaling $3,890,572 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Room to Breathe Project fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Philanthropy (22%), Health (16%).
Who are Room to Breathe Project's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Seneca Family of Agencies ($1.3M), Peer Health Exchange Inc ($1.2M), US Foundation for Queen's University at Kingston ($757k).
Does Room to Breathe Project fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Room to Breathe Project accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Room to Breathe Project?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
Where is Room to Breathe Project based?
Room to Breathe Project is based in CA.

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 55 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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