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The Rauch Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
71
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$723kEducation$694kEnvironment$624kCommunity Improvement$209kCivil Rights$205kArts & Culture$177kEmployment$145kPhilanthropy$113kOther$0
02FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k44 grants · $165k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $303k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $743k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA OF LONG ISLAND INC$200,000
OUTLAW OCEAN PROJECT$100,000
GRACE INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK INC$75,000
CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC$60,000
KATHETI GREECE CIVIL NON-PROFIT COMPANY (KATHETI)$57,834
THE OCEAN FOUNDATION$50,000
NEXT GEN PERSONAL FINANCE$50,000
NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE$50,000
BANK STREET COLLEGE$50,000
NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST$50,000
TEACHER'S COLLEGE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$40,000
OLD WESTBURY GARDENS INC$40,000
MOLLOY UNIVERSITY$38,000
FEEDBACK GLOBAL LIMITED$27,500
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY$20,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $13k → 8%NEXT GEN PERSONAL FINANCE: $50k → 7%LISTEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 10%WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES: $1k → 9%THOMPSON SENIOR CENTER: $10k → 9%SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY: $2k → 9%DOCS FOR TOTS: $50k → 6%COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE: $5k → 17%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

ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
MN
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
NC
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 30 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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31

Total granted

$2.2M
$613k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+27%

Still filing today

87%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $388k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • ER
    ERASE RACISM INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $205k · revenue +45%
  • OP
    OO PROJECT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +53%
  • GI
    GRACE INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $145k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • LU
    LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +18%
  • CF
    CHOICE FOR ALL
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -56%
  • TN
    THE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -51%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
3
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
4
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
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
9
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.

—
10
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
11
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

—
12
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Next Gen Personal Finance. 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

78 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. 78 of the 108 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/78
Grantees still filing
42/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YMCA OF LONG ISLAND INC: $600,000 · OtherYMCA OF LONG ISLAND INCKATHETI GREECE CIVIL NON-PROFIT COMPANY (KATHETI): $117,834 · OtherKATHETI GREECE CIVIL NON-PROFIT COMPANY (KATHETI)Old Westbury Gardens Inc: $80,000 · OtherOld Westbury Gardens IncNATURAL HERITAGE TRUST: $65,000 · OtherBANK STREET COLLEGE: $50,000 · OtherTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $50,000 · Other+64 more: $490,739 · Other+64 moreTeachers College Columbia University: $200,000 · EducationTeachers College Colu…MOLLOY UNIVERSITY: $139,000 · EducationMOLLOY UNIVERSITYCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $125,000 · EducationCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC…LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $30,000 · Education+6 more: $28,950 · EducationOO PROJECT: $150,000 · EnvironmentOO PROJECTThe Ocean Foundation: $100,000 · EnvironmentThe Ocean Foundatio…THE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentTHE NORTH SHORE LAN…LONG ISLAND PINE BARRENS SOCIETY: $75,000 · EnvironmentLONG ISLAND PINE BA…NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentNORTH AMERICAN MARI…CLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION: $30,000 · EnvironmentPLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Environment+6 more: $38,500 · Environment+6 moreERASE RACISM INC: $205,000 · Civil RightsCHOICE FOR ALL: $100,000 · Community ImprovementLIA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementQUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT: $15,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $1,000 · Community ImprovementGRACE INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK INC: $145,000 · EmploymentDOCS FOR TOTS: $50,000 · Human ServicesNEXT GEN PERSONAL FINANCE: $50,000 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesWOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Human ServicesLISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $3,000 · Human Services
Other$1,453,573Education$622,950Environment$563,500Civil Rights$205,000Community Improvement$166,000Employment$145,000Human Services$135,500

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 budgetERASE RACISM INC: $205,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOO PROJECT: $150,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetGRACE INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK INC: $145,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMOLLOY UNIVERSITY: $139,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetOld Westbury Gardens Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLONG ISLAND PINE BARRENS SOCIETY: $75,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetNATURAL HERITAGE TRUST: $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDOCS FOR TOTS: $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetLIA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNEXT GEN PERSONAL FINANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LANDSCAPE HISTORY INC: $41,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTOMORROW'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $18,500 over 3y, 19% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPARENTCHILD INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetQUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTESSORI GLOBAL GROWTH FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetBalsam Mountain Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetADOPTIVE & FOSTER FAMILY COALITION OF NEW YORK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPathways to Peace: $10,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetWOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPECONIC COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $8,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE INDIA GROUP CORPORATION: $8,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetART & PRACTICE: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject Row Houses: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHOLD TOWN INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC: $5,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHECKSCHER MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FOOD AND DRINK: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDYSLEXIC ADVANTAGE BROCK EIDE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN PROSPECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Woodstock Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

The New York Communit…The Vermont Community…The Couch Family Foun…Mascoma Bank Foundati…Mother Cabrini Health…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…New York Community Ba…The Ford FoundationAgnes M Lindsay TrustNew Hampshire Charita…Hypertherm Hope Found…McCollom Family Found…
The New York Community TrustNY29.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Vermont Community Foundation · The Couch Family Foundation · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · New York Community Bank Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · McCollom Family 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 Rauch Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rauch Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Hunger Free Vermont Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Willing Hands Enterprises Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Montshire Museum of Science Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Island Housing Trust Corporation: 1% of income from government
  • World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon: 0% of income from government
  • Champlain College Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Zack's Place Enrichment Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • The Woodstock Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to The Rauch Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Rauch Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 108 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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