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Round It Up America Inc

Founded by leaders in the restaurant industry, round it up america (riua) is a non-profit organization that strives to make change across america through a simple, yet powerful charitable giving program.mission partners - participating riua businesses - provide their patrons with the opportunity to add donations to their purchases upon…

$8.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
173
Grants FY2024still arriving
38
States reached
$579k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$11MCommunity Improvement$2.9MHuman Services$2.6MFood & Nutrition$1.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$490kYouth Development$342kHealth$335kRecreation & Sports$318kOther$0
02FY2024 · 173 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 173 grants below total $5,033,696, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,742,908 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,709,212 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $134k
  • $10k–50k142 grants · $2.1M
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $538k
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.2M
$11,735
Median grant
38
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION$579,421
FEEDING AMERICA$570,607
HOPE FOR THE WARRIORS$522,436
UNITED STATES HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATIONAL FUND$295,000
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE$275,000
SCORE FOUNDATION$100,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$80,372
FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION$56,791
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA$50,600
BURLINGAME SCHOOLS USD 454$50,000
RICHARDS R-V SCHOOL DISTRICT$50,000
OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$50,000
DEMOTTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$50,000
FRIENDS OF CUSD #5$50,000
DEER CREEK COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION$45,000
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 (FY17–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $560k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $465k → 17%WARRIORS FOR FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $6k → 16%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $275k → 17%PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $31k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $64k → 14%MAKE A WISH OF GREATER BAY AREA: $17k → 10%CITYSQUARE: $33k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $38k → 14%MAKE A WISH OF GREATER BAY AREA: $10k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS NATIONAL DISASTER RELIEF: $7k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $131k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $128k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $87k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $80k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS NATIONAL DISASTER RELIEF: $45k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS NATIONAL DISASTER RELIEF: $10k → 14%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

AK
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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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 171 repeat orgs$6.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

171 repeat relationships: 122 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

171
415

Total granted

$13M
$4.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+11%

Still filing today

20%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Feeding America
    7× · 2017–2024 · $892k · revenue +84%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    7× · 2017–2024 · $490k · revenue +46%
  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · $467k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $151k · revenue +38%
  • ST
    SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $105k · revenue -5%
  • SL
    Salt Lake Education Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $68k · revenue -2%
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
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
2
Midland Isd Education Foundation

The midland education foundation exists to promote excellence in education by generating and distributing additional resources for the benefit of midland isd students and staff.

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3
North Kansas City Schools Education Foundation

Engaging our communities to support and fund extraordinary educational experiences.

Education
4
Arizona Educational Foundation Inc

To celebrate excellence and cultivate opportunity in pk-12th grade arizona public education.

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5
Highland Park Isd Education Foundation

The Foundation's mission is to rally our entire community to raise the critical funds necessary for continuing Highland Park ISD's tradition of exemplary education.

Education
6
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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7
Santa Barbara Education Foundation

Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

Education
8
Jacksonville Public Education Fund Inc

Jpef activates community support, connects partners, and advances effective ideas for the success of allstudents.

Education
9
Waco Isd Education Foundation

The waco isd education foundation strives to fund creative, educational programs and projects not covered by school budgets or tax dollars, thus our motto, "raising the power of education!" more than 93% of all foundation expenses fund…

Education
10
The Philadelphia Education Fund

The mission of the philadelphia education fund (pef) is to create equitable access to opportunities for students by providing resources and expertise that build paths to college and career success. pef focuses on philadelphia public school…

Youth Development
11
San Luis Coastal Education Foundation

Partner with public and private sectors to support creative and innovative programs for the benefit of students of the san luis coastal unified school district in the areas of academics, arts, career technical education, extra-curricular…

Education
12
Dallas Education Foundation

The mission of the Dallas Education Foundation is to inspire community investment that accelerates success for all 140,000+ Dallas ISD students. As the non-profit, philanthropic partner of Dallas ISD, we align with the districts strategic…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Nea Foundation for the Improvement of Education; the most unlike its peers is Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

126 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. 126 of the 625 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
121/126
Grantees still filing
70/126
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE VENTURE MENTORING TEAM INC: $393,175 · Other+156 more: $7,282,225 · Other+156 moreUNITED STATES HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,765,824 · EducationUNITED STATES HISPANIC CH…Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $579,421 · EducationChildren of Fallen Patrio…FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $467,277 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SPOKANE COUNTY: $152,122 · Education+18 more: $662,796 · Education+18 moreNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $1,300,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $489,805 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $101,476 · Human Services+3 more: $91,708 · Human ServicesFeeding America: $892,170 · Food & NutritionMeals on Wheels New Mexico: $131,737 · Food & NutritionPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $128,432 · Food & NutritionHARVEST SEED PROJECT FOUNDATION: $68,689 · Food & NutritionHope For The Warriors: $522,436 · PhilanthropySCORE Foundation: $150,000 · PhilanthropyWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $72,115 · PhilanthropySalt Lake Education Foundation: $68,348 · PhilanthropyTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $61,243 · PhilanthropyDEER CREEK COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $80,300 · PhilanthropyTIJUANA FLATS JUST IN QUESO FOUNDATION INC: $284,945 · Public Safety & DisasterSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $249,166 · Recreation & Sports
Other$7,675,400Education$3,627,440Human Services$1,982,989Food & Nutrition$1,221,028Philanthropy$999,442Public Safety & Disaster$284,945Recreation & Sports$249,166

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetUNITED STATES HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,765,824 over 3y, 31% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $1,300,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFeeding America: $892,170 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $579,421 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHope For The Warriors: $522,436 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $489,805 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $467,277 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE VENTURE MENTORING TEAM INC: $393,175 over 2y, 100% of budgetTIJUANA FLATS JUST IN QUESO FOUNDATION INC: $284,945 over 6y, 31% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $249,166 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $190,305 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SPOKANE COUNTY: $152,122 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $150,714 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCORE Foundation: $150,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetGreat NH Restaurants Charitable Trust: $145,534 over 5y, 21% of budgetMeals on Wheels New Mexico: $131,737 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $128,432 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMetropolitan Economic Development Association: $120,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $106,396 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $105,293 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $101,476 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $75,377 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $73,109 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA RESTAURANT FOUNDATION INC: $72,308 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $72,115 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHARVEST SEED PROJECT FOUNDATION: $68,689 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetSalt Lake Education Foundation: $68,348 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCane Rosso Rescue: $64,571 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $61,243 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $60,535 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $50,710 over 1y, 16% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $50,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFriends of CUSD 5: $50,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCentral County Community Development Corporation: $46,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetDEER CREEK COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetLEE INITIATIVE INC: $45,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMesa Public Schools Foundation: $44,262 over 1y, 15% of budgetLIBERTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $40,890 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $35,031 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE: $34,946 over 1y, 10% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $34,513 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMONTANA RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUC ATION FOUNDATION: $33,309 over 4y, 32% of budgetCITYSQUARE: $33,169 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMYRTLE BEACH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $32,823 over 1y, 88% of budgetGWINNETT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FUND INC: $32,714 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $31,381 over 1y, 3.9% 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.

  • Who funds UNITED STATES HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Hope For The Warriors ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE VENTURE MENTORING TEAM INC ↗
  • Who funds TIJUANA FLATS JUST IN QUESO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SPOKANE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds SCORE Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Great NH Restaurants Charitable Trust ↗
  • Who funds Meals on Wheels New Mexico ↗
  • Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Economic Development Association ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗

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.

GenYOUTH IncorporatedIL155.3× affinity176 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: GenYOUTH Incorporated · Project Lead the Way Inc · The George W Bush Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Share Our Strength · I Car Education Foundation · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · Action for Healthy Kids · Save the Music Foundation · Foundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc · Justin J Watt Foundation 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 Round It Up America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Round It Up America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
16report 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
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.
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How do I get to Round It Up America Inc?

Find your warmest path to Round It Up America Inc 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 625 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 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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