· Private foundation
Rpm Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| TVT COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL | $36,000 |
| JSERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $11,900 |
| SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $11,550 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OCORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2019–2023 · $177k · revenue +26%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY5× · 2018–2023 · $74k · revenue +19%
- SHSAGE HILL SCHOOL2× · 2017–2018 · $63k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -56%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $4k
- OCORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
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.
We provide an unparalleled arts and acdademic education in a creative, challenging and nurturing environment to a diverse student body passionate about the arts, preparing them to reach their highest potential.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To serve as the student government body at the university of california, riverside.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAGE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JUNIPERO SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TARBUT V'TORAH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Segerstrom Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Samueli Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Paul & Elisabeth Merage Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rpm Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rpm Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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