· Public charity
Rpm Foundation
The RPM Foundation supports restoration and preservation training programs for the next generation of automotive, motorcycle and marine craftsmen.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $90,825 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $118,903 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,078 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k2 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| McPherson College | $30,000 |
| Pennsylvania College of Technology | $23,000 |
| The Apprenticeshop | $10,000 |
| IYRS School of Technology & Trade | $10,000 |
| Gilmore Museum | $9,825 |
| Center for Wooden Boats | $8,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MCMCPHERSON COLLEGE5× · 2017–2022 · $197k · revenue +129%
- PCPENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2022 · $63k · revenue +353%
- ACATLANTIC CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC DBA THE APPRENTICESHOP2× · 2021–2022 · $34k · revenue +6%
Funded once
CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +96%- EVEast Valley Institute of Technologyone grant, 2017 · $21k
- GLGREAT LAKES BOAT BUILDING SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +598%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To inspire and educate tomorrows leaders in an extraordinary learning community focused on engineering and design in the marine field.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To operate and maintain suny maritime museum
The Landing School effectively prepares men and women for careers in the marine industry as practical designers, builders and systems technicians, who work professionally on today's vessels, adapt to the industry's evolving technology,…
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
To educate the world about camden's rich maritime heritage and significant contributions to global shipbuilding and seafaring exploration.
We collect, preserve, display, and interpret the maritime history, culture and art of the columbia river, its tributaries, and the waters of the north pacific for the education and enjoyment of the public.
To collect, preserve, interpret and celebrate boats and related artifacts to advance public understanding of the importance of boating to the cultural history of north america and the st. lawrence river in particular.
Operation of a nautical history museum.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding (NWSWB) is a post-secondary trade school that teaches craftmanship through boatbuilding at its 7-acre campus in Port-Hadlock, Washington. Incorporated as a non-profit corporation 40 years ago,…
Allegheny's undergraduate residential education prepares young adults for successful, meaningful lives by promoting students' intellectual, moral, and social development and encouraging personal and civic responsibility.allegheny's faculty…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iyrs School of Technology & Trades Inc and the most unlike its peers is Genevieve and Donald S Gilmore Fdn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
18 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. 18 of the 23 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 MCPHERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC DBA THE APPRENTICESHOP ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND ↗
- Who funds IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC ↗
- Who funds Center For Wooden Boats ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES BOAT BUILDING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MADISON AUTOMOTIVE APPRENTICES INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVIEVE AND DONALD S GILMORE FDN ↗
- Who funds GIG HARBOR PENINSULA HISTORICAL SOC ↗
- Who funds ALFRED STATE COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AUBURN AUTOMOTIVE HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKING THE BOAT INC ↗
- Who funds Bitney Preparatory High School ↗
- Who funds LEMAY-AMERICAS CAR MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LAKE WASHINGTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Independence Seaport Museum ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Rpm 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.
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.