· Private foundation
The a Robert Kaufman Foundation for Working Class Action
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| FAJR SCIENTIFIC | $5,000 |
| HUMANE BORDERS | $5,000 |
| THE MASSACHUSETTS BAIL FUND | $4,500 |
| SOUTH TEXAS HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER | $4,000 |
| ROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNational Center for Science Education6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +85%
- HBHUMANE BORDERS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +152%
- STSouth Texas Human Rights Center Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- RFRockley Family Foundationone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +8%
- UUUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF TUCSONone grant, 2020 · $2k
- ATANGRY TIAS AND ABEULOS OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEYone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…
Center for Humane Technology is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that the most consequential technologies actually serve humanity. We bring clarity to how the tech ecosystem works in order to shift the incentives that drive it.
Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.
Commission Shift is reforming oil and gas oversight by building public support to hold the Railroad Commission of Texas accountable to its mission in a shifting energy landscape.
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
See Schedule OTDS fights for the end of mass incarceration and excessive punishment in Texas through direct representation, policy reform, and public education. TDS stands up for the dignity and humanity of people harmed by mass…
Rethink Priorities' mission is to support organizations, researchers, and changemakers in efforts to generate the most significant possible charitable impact for others in the present and the long-term future.
The puente human rights movement is a migrant worker justice foundation based in phoenix, az. we develop, educate, and empower migrant communities to protect and defend our families and ourselves.
To promote free expression, academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and open scientific inquiry in the MIT community
To reduce catastrophic risks from novel biotechnologies by conducting research on pandemic prevention, detection, and mitigation.
The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 National Center for Science Education ↗
- Who funds HUMANE BORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Bail Fund ↗
- Who funds South Texas Human Rights Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FAJR SCIENTIFIC ↗
- Who funds COLIBRI CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Yellowhammer Fund ↗
- Who funds Progress Texas Institute ↗
- Who funds Rockley Family 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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The a Robert Kaufman Foundation for Working Class Action funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The a Robert Kaufman Foundation for Working Class Action. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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