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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 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
- 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 |
| Johns Hopkins University | $10,000 |
| The Institute of World Politics | $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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 173 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rumsfeld Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rumsfeld Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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