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The Randolph Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
95
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$1.8MEducation$1.1MHealth$958kCivil Rights$956kArts & Culture$640kPhilanthropy$399kSocial Science$210kCrime & Legal$153kOther$0
02FY2024 · 95 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k59 grants · $212k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $565k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $517k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$5,250
Median grant
18
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Patient Rights Advocate Inc$250,000
Chapel & York US Foundation (Collateral Global)$162,000
Tholos Foundation (fka Americans for Tax Reform Foundation)$105,000
National Center for Public Policy Research$100,000
America First Policy Institute$100,000
Independent Women's Forum$50,000
Claremont Institute$40,000
National Review Institute$25,000
Center for Reviewing America Inc$25,000
RealClear Media Fund$25,000
Bradley Impact Fund$25,000
Ethics and Public Policy Center$25,000
WMTS Education Inc (Kite & Key Media)$25,000
Independent Women's Forum$25,000
Independent Women's Forum$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $152k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Shepherd's Watch Foundation: $3k → 5%Wounded Warrior Project: $2k → 14%Brian Gibbons Homeless Outreach Inc: $4k → 12%Mercy Chefs: $1k → 20%National Progress Alliance: $20k → 8%Camp Kesem National: $1k → 14%Brian Gibbons Homeless Outreach: $4k → 12%Let Grow: $100k → 17%Long Island Cares (The Harry Chapin Food Bank): $5k → 7%SilverSource Inc: $6k → 9%SilverSource Inc: $6k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of The Randolph Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Randolph Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 79 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

79 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
143

Total granted

$4.5M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+17%

Still filing today

85%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $605k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TF
    Tholos Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $436k · revenue +49%
  • IW
    Independent Women's Forum
    3× · 2021–2024 · $425k · revenue +1%
  • MI
    MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $330k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -60%
  • LG
    LET GROW INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +38%
  • CR
    CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +24%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
3
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
4
United States Naval Institute

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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5
R Street Institute

The r street institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-policy research organization ("think tank"). our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government. (continued on…

Education
6
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
7
The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc

The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…

Education
10
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
11
Allbritton Journalism Institute

Allbritton journalism institute aims to train a new generation of non-partisan political reporters from diverse backgrounds to produce high-quality, fact-based journalism.

Education
12
The Liberal Patriot Inc

The liberal patriot (tlp) is a digital newsletter focused on american politics and public policy. tlp aims to provide readers with honest analysis and original commentary to help advance a vital center perspective in american life.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Silversource Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

197 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 197 of the 271 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
196/197
Grantees still filing
125/197
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Independent Women's Forum (IWF): $725,000 · OtherIndependent Women's Forum (IWF)Tholos Foundation: $436,250 · OtherTholos FoundationChapel & York US Foundation (Collateral Global): $162,000 · OtherTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $156,000 · Other+122 more: $1,783,070 · Other+122 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $400,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TR…AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 · EducationAMERICA FIRST P…JACKSON HOLE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC: $82,500 · EducationJACKSON HOLE CL…REFORMERS ACADEMY: $50,000 · EducationREFORMERS ACADE…BUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC: $41,037 · Education+17 more: $191,100 · Education+17 morePATIENTRIGHTSADVOCATEORG INC: $795,000 · HealthPATIENTRIGHTSA…+7 more: $81,400 · Health+7 moreMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $330,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN…ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC: $125,000 · Public BenefitETHICS AN…Center for Renewing America Inc: $25,000 · Public BenefitLegatum Foundation: $20,000 · Public BenefitAmerican Moment Inc: $20,000 · Public Benefit+5 more: $48,000 · Public Benefit+5 moreIndependent Women's Forum: $425,000 · Civil RightsIndepende…Project on Fair Representation Inc: $100,000 · Civil RightsProject o…American Principles Project: $20,000 · Civil Rights+4 more: $21,200 · Civil RightsTHE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureVMTS EDUCATION INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Arts & CultureENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION: $40,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN THEATRE WING INC: $31,500 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA BALLET INC: $23,750 · Arts & CultureCITY LIGHTS & COMPANY: $22,450 · Arts & CultureJUST FACTS INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureONE GENERATION AWAY: $20,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE SYMPHONY INC: $17,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $40,970 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $40,000 · PhilanthropyBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $20,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED CHARITABLE: $10,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $17,450 · Philanthropy
Other$3,262,320Education$914,637Health$876,400Public Benefit$568,000Civil Rights$566,200Arts & Culture$441,170Philanthropy$232,450

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPATIENTRIGHTSADVOCATEORG INC: $795,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetTholos Foundation: $436,250 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetIndependent Women's Forum: $425,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $330,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $156,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC: $125,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT INC: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetProject on Fair Representation Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLET GROW INC: $100,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetJACKSON HOLE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC: $82,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetVMTS EDUCATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetREFORMERS ACADEMY: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC: $41,037 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE BRITCHES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $32,475 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetAMERICAN THEATRE WING INC: $31,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $27,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Renewing America Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR RACE AND OPPORTUNITY: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCenter for American Greatness Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN REDISTRICTING PROJECT: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREAL CLEAR MEDIA FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE HAVEN INC: $23,750 over 4y, 79% of budgetCAROLINA BALLET INC: $23,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCITY LIGHTS & COMPANY: $22,450 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC: $22,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GREATER BRIDGEPORT OIC INC: $21,600 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetJUST FACTS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetLegatum Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetDO NO HARM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARCHBRIDGE INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE COMMON GOOD FORUM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WORKFIRST FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetAmerican Principles Project: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Donors Trust IncGrace Jones Richardso…The Lynde and Harry B…Bradley Impact Fund I…Sarah Scaife Foundati…Beth and Ravenel Curr…The Dunn FoundationThe Searle Freedom Tr…Thomas W Smith Founda…John William Pope Fou…Triad Foundation IncAtlas Economic Resear…
Donors Trust IncVA66.7× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Grace Jones Richardson Testamentary Trust C/O Piedmont Trust Co · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · The Dunn Foundation · The Searle Freedom Trust · Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc · John William Pope Foundation · Triad Foundation Inc · Atlas Economic Research Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Randolph Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Randolph Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 220%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • The Greater Bridgeport Oic Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Pacific House Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Arts Empowering Life Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company: 11% of income from government
  • Round the Bend Farm Inc: 11% of income from government
  • City Lights & Company: 9% of income from government
  • Domus Kids Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc: 1% of income from government
  • American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Little Britches Therapeutic Riding Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Community Supported Shelters: 0% of income from government
  • Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Island Grown Initiative Ltd: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Randolph Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Randolph Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 271 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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