· Private foundation
The Rbr Foundation Inc
Its FY2019 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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE | $6,000 |
| USSGA MEMORIAL FUND | $1,700 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $750 |
| ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| CROSSROADS CLUB | $500 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| MARYLAND HALL FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS | $500 |
| ST ANNE'S SCHOOL | $500 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE | $500 |
| THE FOWNES FOUNDATION | $394 |
| LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL CAMP | $250 |
| MERCY RIDGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $250 |
| USGA FOUNDATION | $250 |
| IRVINE NATURE CENTER | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 53% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +79% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- UMUSSGA MEMORIAL FUND INC3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +60%
- FFFOWNES FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +912%
- CCCROSSROADS CLUB INC3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +79%
Funded once
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +64%- RTROBERT T JONES JR MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2018 · $500
- LLLINDEN LODGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · 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.
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
To serve the golf course superintendent by advancing the profession, offering professional development, and fostering relationships for all members.
To unite the golf industry around initiatives that promote, enhance the growth of and provide access to the game worldwide, while preserving golf's traditional values and passing them on to others. it accomplishes its mission through: 1.…
Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The energy & mineral law foundation is a national nonprofit educational organization that fosters the study of the laws and regulations related to natural resource development and energy use. the foundation is an accredited provider of…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
The new jersey state golf association, inc. ("the association") is a non-profit organization of public and private clubs that was formed for the purpose of preserving and promoting the game of golf throughout the state of new jersey.the…
To impact the lives of young people in the greater st. louis area by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.
To inspire, empower and transform the lives of girls and women through the game of golf.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Usga Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Morgan Family 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 39 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND HALL FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds USSGA MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FOWNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LINDEN LODGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds St John's Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds USGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ridge Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST ELMO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MORGAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LIVING WITH WOLVES LTD ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE 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 Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Rbr 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wayside House Inc — 20% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 13% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 12% 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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