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Rudolph Joseph Foundation at a glance

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Rudolph Joseph 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.

$621k
Granted FY2024still arriving
123
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$99k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$1.0MEducation$608kPublic Benefit$450kInternational$213kHealth$95kPhilanthropy$86kScience & Tech$77kCivil Rights$54kOther$0
02FY2024 · 123 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k110 grants · $137k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $209k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
$1,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$335k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Accelerate ChangeFocus 4 Democracy$99,322
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$75,443
Lost Light Projects Inc$50,000
Woods Hole Oceanographic$50,000
Southern Vision Alliance$40,000
Galvanize USA$34,741
Lincoln Democracy Instit$25,000
Columbia University$25,000
Notley Impact$25,000
Working America Education Fund$18,851
All Americans Vote$15,793
Accelerate ChangeFocus 4 Democracy$15,000
Citzens' Climate Education$10,000
Network for Good$7,725
100 Friends$7,510
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 (FY20–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Vivalon: $500 → 8%LUSTGARTEN FDN: $2k → 6%WORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 17%LUSTGARTEN FDN: $1k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FDN: $500 → 6%NO ONE LEFT BEHIND INC: $529 → 7%NO ONE LEFT BEHIND INC: $500 → 7%Jewish Center for Justice: $1k → 14%JEWISH CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $500 → 14%JEWISH CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $500 → 14%Jewish Center for Justice: $500 → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 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

VT
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 79 repeat orgs$691k to everyone else

79 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
120

Total granted

$1.8M
$254k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+18%

Still filing today

68%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $438k 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
EnvironmentHealthArts & CultureInternationalEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • WA
    WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $98k · revenue +36%
  • IC
    INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +251%
  • LO
    LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $54k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • TV
    THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $102k · revenue -34%
  • KR
    KEYSTONE RESEARCH C
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • AO
    ACLU OF MI DONATION
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
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
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
2
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
The Climate Group Inc

Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…

Environment
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
7
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
8
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
9
Climate Central Inc

Climate central, inc. (the organization") is an independent not-for-profit organization of leading scientists, technology experts and communication professionals that are dedicated to researching and reporting on climate change and its…

Science & Tech
10
Watttime Corporation

To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.

Science & Tech
11
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
12
The Alliance for Just Deliberation On Solar Geoengineering Inc

The alliance for just deliberation on solar geoengineering (dsg) is a charitable, scientific and educational organization dedicated to building just and inclusive deliberation about research and potential use of solar geoengineering. solar…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment California Inc; the most unlike its peers is The International Raoul Wallenberg 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.
04the grantee network

141 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. 141 of the 249 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
141/141
Grantees still filing
84/141
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LDEO FUND: $205,240 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LDEO FUNDCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SABIN CENTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: $132,249 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SABIN CENTER FOR CLIMATE …Accelerate ChangeFocus 4 Democracy: $114,322 · OtherAccelerate ChangeFocus 4 DemocracyLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS - LCV: $50,606 · OtherWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $50,000 · OtherNETWORK FOR GOOD: $45,835 · OtherINSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC: $55,897 · Other+136 more: $458,435 · Other+136 moreCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP: $534,772 · EnvironmentCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION …LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $75,443 · EnvironmentLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTE…+22 more: $51,328 · Environment+22 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $259,366 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF CO…WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $98,185 · EducationWORKING AMERICA ED…100 FRIENDS: $59,236 · Education100 FRIENDSNOTLEY IMPACT: $25,000 · EducationNOTLEY IMPACT+7 more: $14,441 · EducationGround Game Fund: $156,133 · Public BenefitSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $40,000 · Public Benefit+4 more: $12,556 · Public BenefitTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $102,439 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $53,545 · Civil RightsAll Americans Vote: $15,793 · Civil Rights+1 more: $1,000 · Civil RightsTHE INTERNATIONAL RAOUL WALLENBERG FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Community ImprovementMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $33,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $16,520 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,220 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $3,600 · InternationalPLOUGHSHARES FUND INC: $3,250 · International+6 more: $5,273 · International
Other$1,112,584Environment$661,543Education$456,228Public Benefit$208,689Civil Rights$172,777Community Improvement$75,000International$66,863

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 budgetCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP: $534,772 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $259,366 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGround Game Fund: $156,133 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $102,439 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $98,185 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $75,443 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL RAOUL WALLENBERG FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 48% of budget100 FRIENDS: $59,236 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetINSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC: $55,897 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $53,545 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $45,835 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $33,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNOTLEY IMPACT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $16,520 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetACTBLUE CHARITIES INC: $16,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAll Americans Vote: $15,793 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: $9,060 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $8,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $7,730 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $6,056 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $5,620 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,220 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $5,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDR SUSAN LOVE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWORKING AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmyloidosis Support Groups Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCLIMATE SCIENCE AWARENESS AND SOLUTIONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $4,603 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $4,120 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $4,108 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $4,075 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $3,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLOUGHSHARES FUND INC: $3,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $3,028 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $3,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds CITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Ground Game Fund ↗
  • Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL RAOUL WALLENBERG FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds 100 FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC ↗
  • Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds NOTLEY IMPACT ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds ACTBLUE CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds All Americans Vote ↗
  • Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND ↗
  • Who funds White Plains Hospital Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗

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.

Marin Community Found…The Ford FoundationPark Foundation IncThe San Francisco Fou…The William & Flora H…The Yelp FoundationMcNabb FoundationImpactassetsincSixteen Thirty FundUnited States Energy …Silicon Valley Commun…Amalgamated Charitabl…
Marin Community FoundationCA24.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Park Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · United States Energy Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable 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 Rudolph Joseph Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rudolph Joseph Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 249 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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