· Private foundation
The Rardin Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHANGENT | $5,000 |
| 360ORG | $4,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF S WI | $4,000 |
| DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| BRAVER ANGELS | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL PREVENTION SCIENCE COALTIO | $2,500 |
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 human-services grants (FY20–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 78% 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
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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- BABraver AngelsInc4× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +149%
- GHGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +6%
- LOLAKE OCONEE HUMANE SOCIETY INC2× · 2021–2022 · $4k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $6k
- GCGREENE COUNTY CHRISTIAN OUTREACH INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +45%
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.
DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.
Advancing Health Equity Through Food System Change We are a nonprofit advancing food equity and nutrition security by working at the intersection of public health, education and policy. We start with dairy because of its outsized impact on…
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
Global greengrants fund seeds grassroots environmental action and social justice through small grants. we support change from the ground up by channeling donations to local projects and grassroots campaigns for environmental justice around…
Groundswell International strenghtens communities to build healthy farming and food systems from the ground up.
Engage in the charitable purpose of combating childhood hunger.
Working together to create a just and sustainable world through transformative farmer training that nourishes communities and the Earth.
Greenlight action mobilizes grassroots power to get more clean energy projects built more quickly across the united states.
Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Democracy Forward Foundation and the most unlike its peers is 365 Media Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 22 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 Braver AngelsInc ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds GREENE COUNTY CHRISTIAN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE OCONEE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bread and Roses Community Fund ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PREVENTION SCIENCE COALITION TO IMPROVE LIVES INC ↗
- Who funds 365 Media Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FONKOZE USA 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: 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 The Rardin Foundation 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.
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.