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RTW Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$3.0MHealth$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.6MInternational$246kReligion$212kHuman Services$205kScience & Tech$203kArts & Culture$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $76k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$72M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National Philanthropic Donor Advised Fund - DAF contribution$1,500,000
Rare Village Foundation$150,500
Boston Childrens Hospital Corporation$150,000
Washington University School of Medicine$150,000
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$149,952
Montefiore Medical Center$50,000
Arete Education$50,000
Hamilton-Madison House$50,000
Mixteca Organization Inc$50,000
AIRnyc$50,000
Mexican Coalition for the Empowerment of Youth & Families$50,000
RaisingHealth Partners$50,000
Exodus Transitional Community$50,000
East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership$50,000
Community Health Action of Staten Island$50,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Optimists Inc: $5k → 13%Mixteca: $50k → 20%Mixteca Organization Inc: $50k → 20%Saving Mothers: $25k → 17%Mexican Coalition for the Empowerment of Youth & Families: $50k → 28%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $50k → 17%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
MO
MD
DE
NC
DC
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of RTW Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

RTW Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 19 repeat orgs$4.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
48

Total granted

$2.5M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+8%

Still filing today

74%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2024 · $566k · revenue +6%
  • Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $303k · revenue +11%
  • HH
    HAMILTON-MADISON HOUSE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • AG
    ANALYSIS GROUP
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • UP
    USA PRIORY OF ST JOHN
    one grant, 2021 · $180k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND IN AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -58%
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
New York University

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.

Education
2
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
New York Blood Center Inc

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.

Health
7
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
Associated Medical Schools of New York

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…

Education
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 90 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
26/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

National Philanthropic Donor Advised Fund - DAF contribution: $1,500,000 · OtherNational Philanthropic Donor Advised Fund - DAF contributionUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $299,232 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLANALYSIS GROUP: $200,000 · OtherUSA PRIORY OF ST JOHN: $180,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $170,000 · Other+46 more: $2,274,732 · Other+46 moreWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $566,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSI…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $454,999 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COL…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $230,095 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTE…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $100,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MED…Cornell University: $55,000 · Education+3 more: $1,710 · EducationFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $302,500 · HealthFoundation for t…RARE VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $166,759 · HealthRARE VILLAGE FOU…GLOBAL GENOMIC MEDICINE COLLABORATIVE: $159,202 · HealthGLOBAL GENOMIC M…Children's Hospital Corporation: $150,000 · HealthChildren's Hospi…HARLEM UNITED COMMUNITY AIDS CENTER INC: $100,000 · HealthHARLEM UNITED CO…BIOBUS INC: $85,000 · HealthBIOBUS INCVIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $60,000 · HealthNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $50,000 · HealthMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 · HealthACT CARE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Health+5 more: $36,280 · HealthRAZOM INC: $151,030 · InternationalTHE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND IN AMERICA INC: $150,177 · International+5 more: $20,619 · InternationalMIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $50,000 · Human ServicesMEXICAN COALITION FOR THE EMPOWERMENT OF YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $50,000 · Human ServicesSAVING MOTHERS: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesBROWN UNIVERSITY: $165,000 · Community ImprovementHAMILTON-MADISON HOUSE INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE CENTER (AICC) INC: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,400 · Arts & Culture
Other$4,623,964Education$1,407,804Health$1,209,741International$321,826Human Services$230,000Community Improvement$165,000Arts & Culture$152,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $566,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $454,999 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $302,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $230,095 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRARE VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $166,759 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $165,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL GENOMIC MEDICINE COLLABORATIVE: $159,202 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetRAZOM INC: $151,030 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND IN AMERICA INC: $150,177 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON-MADISON HOUSE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHARLEM UNITED COMMUNITY AIDS CENTER INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNEW YORK CARES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBIOBUS INC: $85,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetVIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC: $55,900 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCornell University: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTS POINT ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN: $53,013 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetARETE EDUCATION INC: $51,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXODUS TRANSITIONAL COMMUNITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACT CARE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACADEMY OF MEDICAL & PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES INC DBA RaisingHealth Partners: $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH ACTION OF STATEN ISLAND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEXICAN COALITION FOR THE EMPOWERMENT OF YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $44,212 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING MOTHERS: $25,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetKLEINE-LEVIN SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetGLOBAL GENES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OPTIMIST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN CARING: $930 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CONNECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN RITTER FOUNDATION FOR AORTIC HEALTH: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $210 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE KIEV JEWISH COMMUNITY: $119 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Robin Hood FoundationMother Cabrini Health…The Hyde and Watson F…New York Immigration …Research Foundation o…New York Women's Foun…Pinkerton FoundationBrooklyn Community Fo…Hispanic Federation I…The Ford FoundationJewish Communal FundSilicon Valley Commun…
Robin Hood FoundationNY21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 RTW Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from RTW Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to RTW Foundation?

Find your warmest path to RTW Foundation 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 90 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home