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RTW Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $76k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| National Philanthropic Donor Advised Fund - DAF contribution | $1,500,000 |
| Rare Village Foundation | $150,500 |
| Washington University School of Medicine | $150,000 |
| Boston Childrens Hospital Corporation | $150,000 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $149,952 |
| Hamilton-Madison House | $50,000 |
| AIRnyc | $50,000 |
| East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership | $50,000 |
| Arete Education | $50,000 |
| RaisingHealth Partners | $50,000 |
| Community Health Action of Staten Island | $50,000 |
| Exodus Transitional Community | $50,000 |
| Mexican Coalition for the Empowerment of Youth & Families | $50,000 |
| Montefiore Medical Center | $50,000 |
| Mixteca Organization Inc | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $230k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of RTW Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 20 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, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY2× · 2022–2024 · $566k · revenue +6%
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $303k · revenue +11%- HUHARLEM UNITED COMMUNITY AIDS CENTER INC2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- AGANALYSIS GROUPone grant, 2022 · $200k
- UPUSA PRIORY OF ST JOHNone grant, 2021 · $180k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND IN AMERICA INCone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -58%
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Amsny, the statewide consortium of medical schools in new york, works with its academic, scientific, healthcare, patient advocacy and business partners to advance medical education, biomedical research, and healthcare delivery. this unique…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is Act Care Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 90 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 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RARE VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GENOMIC MEDICINE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds HARLEM UNITED COMMUNITY AIDS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CARES INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON-MADISON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds BIOBUS INC ↗
- Who funds VIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds HUNTS POINT ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ARETE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE CENTER (AICC) INC ↗
- Who funds ACT CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Robin Hood Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · New York Immigration Coalition Inc · Research Foundation of the City University of New York · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Hispanic Federation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community 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 RTW 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.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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