· Private foundation
The Benjamin B Rauch Fund
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOLARS AT RISK | $50,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT | $1,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $1,000 |
| GIVE2ASIA - LONTAR FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS | $1,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CROSSROADS COMMUNITY | $1,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $1,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE WORKS | $1,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC | $500 |
| FISHERS ISLAND LIBRARY | $500 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY JOURNALISM | $500 |
| CITY HARVEST | $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 US giving — 85% of grant dollars ($413k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 15% that went abroad ($75k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
Beyond the US — 15% of all-years giving ($75k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 32 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
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
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $11k · revenue +32%- TLTHE LIGHTHOUSE WORKS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +147%
- CCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS7× · 2019–2025 · $10k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- SRSOLOMAN R GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM AND FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $36k
- SRSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION (PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION)one grant, 2018 · $7k
- UNUNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +16%
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.
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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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Think of Us and the most unlike its peers is Pastoralist Child Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 78 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 SCHOLARS AT RISK INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds FISHERS ISLAND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND PEOPLES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Henry L Ferguson Museum ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds FISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds TURTLE BAY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL VIDEO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DAG HAMMARSKJOLD PLAZA INC ↗
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: The Willinphila Foundation · The McCance Foundation · The Long Stems Foundation Inc · The Frederic C Hamilton Family Foundation · The Sooner Foundation · The Kean Foundation Inc · The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · Jeanann Gray Dunlap Foundation · The William C and Cindy L Scott Foundation · The Duke of Omnium Fund · Ederic Foundation Inc
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 The Benjamin B Rauch Fund 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.
- Neighborhood Villages Inc — 33% 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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