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Rsf Global Community Fund Inc

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$3.1M
Granted FY2018
1
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Rsf Global Community Fund Inc’s FY2018 grant dollars went to Rudolf Steiner Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172018.

Social Science$1.2MHuman Services$44kInternational$34kCommunity Improvement$25kPhilanthropy$23kEnvironment$21kArts & Culture$21kCrime & Legal$10kEducation$9kOther$87k
02FY2018 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $1,002,092 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,083,677 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,081,585 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$1,002,092
Median grant
1
States reached
$26k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RUDOLF STEINER FOUNDATION INC$1,002,092
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ON THE MOVE: $19k → 9%SHADETREE MULTICULTURAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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.

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Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
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Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
Native Americans in Philanthropy

Native Americans in Philanthropy advocates, educates, convenes and innovates to dramatically increase philanthropic investments in Native communities and transform the philanthropic sector's relationship with Indigenous communities.

Civil Rights
4
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
5
Institute for Conservation Leadership

To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.

Community Improvement
6
International Budget Partnership

Ibp works with civil society, governments, international institutions and the private sector to bring about a world in which empowered citizens participate in open, inclusive public budgeting processes to shape policies and practices that…

International
7
Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc

The sustainable forestry initiative (sfi) inc. is an independent, non-profit organization with a mission to advance sustainability through forest-focused collaborations. sfi is a leader through collaboration in standards, conservation,…

Environment
8
Sustainability Institute

Advancing sustainable and resilient communities while building the next generation of conservation leaders

Community Improvement
9
Groundswell International Inc

Groundswell International strenghtens communities to build healthy farming and food systems from the ground up.

International
10
Institute for Social and Environmental Transition- International

ISET-International catalyzes transformative changes toward a more resilient and equitable future. Through research, training and implementation activities, we improve understanding and elevate the level of dialog and practice as society…

Environment
11
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…

Education
12
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shadetree Multicultural Foundation. 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 20 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC — $1,170,492 · Social ScienceRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INCTHE OJAI FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherTHE OJAI …INTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $15,500 · OtherINTERNATI…VERMONT CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST — $13,000 · OtherVERMONT C…PACIFIC ZEN INSTITUTE — $10,000 · OtherPACIFIC Z…POST OIL SOLUTIONS — $9,000 · OtherPOST OIL …ZEN PEACEMAKERS INC — $7,500 · OtherZEN PEACE…Music in the Vineyards Inc — $15,000 · OtherMusic in …THE EQUUS PROJECTS INC DANCING WITH HORSES — $5,555 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $10,000 · OtherSOUTHERN …SCHOOL OF LOST BORDERS — $8,888 · OtherSCHOOL OF…NEW MEXICO SUICIDE INTERVENTION PROJECT INC — $7,000 · OtherNEW MEXIC…Shadetree Multicultural Foundation — $25,000 · Human ServicesON THE MOVE — $19,000 · Human ServicesTHRESHOLD FOUNDATION — $26,000 · InternationalGOLDEN COURAGE INTERNATIONAL INC RESEARCH&SERVICE FOR UNDERSERVED CHINESE — $8,000 · InternationalINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $24,600 · Community ImprovementTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC — $14,400 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $9,000 · PhilanthropySOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $21,000 · Environment
Social Science$1,170,492Other$126,443Human Services$44,000International$34,000Community Improvement$24,600Philanthropy$23,400Environment$21,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC — $1,170,492 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHRESHOLD FOUNDATION — $26,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE OJAI FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $24,600 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $21,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetON THE MOVE — $19,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $15,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMusic in the Vineyards Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC — $14,400 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF LOST BORDERS — $8,888 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGOLDEN COURAGE INTERNATIONAL INC RESEARCH&SERVICE FOR UNDERSERVED CHINESE — $8,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetNEW MEXICO SUICIDE INTERVENTION PROJECT INC — $7,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE EQUUS PROJECTS INC DANCING WITH HORSES — $5,555 over 1y, 14% of budget
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.

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.

Rsf Social Finance IncCA33.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rsf Social Finance Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Rsf Global Community Fund Inc 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • The Marion Institute Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Rsf Global Community Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Rsf Global Community Fund Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $10k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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