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Rumsfeld 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $62k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $127k
- $250k+1 grant · $355k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY Council | $355,085 |
| CAMCA GROUP INC | $127,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
| The Institute of World Politics | $10,000 |
| Johns Hopkins University | $10,000 |
| Georgetown University | $5,536 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
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 (FY17–21, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
95 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 78 since wound down; 11 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k 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
- AFAMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL7× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +11%
- TMTravis Manion Foundation3× · 2017–2021 · $545k · revenue +235%
- OMOUR MILITARY KIDS INC4× · 2017–2021 · $85k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $38k
- POPROGRAM ON CONSTITUTIONALISM DEMOCRACYone grant, 2017 · $38k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $11k
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Help the naval war college to: a. develop strategic and operational leaders: provide professional military education programs that are current, rigorous, relevant, and accessible to the maximum number of qualified u.s. officers and navy…
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
Empowering learners to achieve excellence by linking knowledge to practice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Camca Group 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 173 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 AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Travis Manion Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAMCA GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds OUR MILITARY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HEROES AND HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗
- Who funds LUKE'S WINGS ↗
- Who funds BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DOG TAG INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUNKER LABS NFP INC ↗
- Who funds THANKS USA ↗
- Who funds THE COMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
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: Veterans United Foundation · The Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation · Wounded Warrior Project Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Rumsfeld 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% 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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