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The Rhe Charitable Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $104k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OAKLAND THEATER PROJECT | $50,000 |
| THEATER BAY AREA | $12,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA | $11,000 |
| CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $10,645 |
| WOMENS EARTH ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHARD GRACENTER | $10,000 |
| RITTER CENTER | $10,000 |
| SWORDS TO PLOWSHARES | $10,000 |
| VIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| RESTORE THE DELTA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| COMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS COTS | $8,000 |
| MARIN AUDUBON SOCIETY | $8,000 |
| BAY AREA WILDERNESS TRAINING BAWT | $8,000 |
| FOOD SHIFT | $8,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those 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 +37% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- OTOAKLAND THEATER PROJECT7× · 2018–2024 · $111k · revenue +196%
- VVVIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION7× · 2018–2024 · $67k · revenue +30%
- CWCENTRAL WORKS7× · 2018–2024 · $62k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- TBTheater Bay Areaone grant, 2019 · $17k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $13k
- SFSwords for Plowsharesone grant, 2019 · $13k
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.
Marin theatre company is the bay area's premier mid-size theater and the leading professional theater in the north bay. mtc produces a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in an…
Sfbatco unites artists and audiences through live theatre that is reflective of the authentic perspectives and history of the san francisco bay area.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.
Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
ReScape addresses climate change by providing a regenerative, nature-based whole systems foundation for landscaping education, workforce development and policy.Foundational to our work is a whole systems watershed framework that…
The mission of the presidio theatre is to ensure that the magic of live performance is accessible to the entire community.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
More than just another play development program, playground focuses on the creation of a true theatre community by nurturing the collaborative process between first-time or early development playwrights, and established, professional…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Foundation of California and the most unlike its peers is Wednesdays Gift. 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 35 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 14% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 122 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 OAKLAND THEATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Theatre Bay Area ↗
- Who funds VIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WORKS ↗
- Who funds MARIN AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CG JUNG INSTITUTE OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds RITTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORE THE DELTA ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Freedom FWD-DBA Freedom Forward ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN-AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
- Who funds Cutting Ball Theater ↗
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 San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Bothin Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Leo J & Celia Carlin Fund · The Bernard Osher Foundation · The Sam Mazza Foundation · Fleishhacker 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 Rhe Charitable Foundation 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.
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% 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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