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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.

$208k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$484kEnvironment$383kHousing & Shelter$89kYouth Development$61kFood & Nutrition$52kSocial Science$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$46kHealth$43kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $104k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$8,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
RESTORE THE DELTA$10,000
GOOD SHEPHARD GRACENTER$10,000
RITTER CENTER$10,000
SWORDS TO PLOWSHARES$10,000
VIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
FOOD SHIFT$8,000
BAY AREA WILDERNESS TRAINING BAWT$8,000
COMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS COTS$8,000
MARIN AUDUBON SOCIETY$8,000
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $12k → 14%Covenant House California: $12k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $11k → 14%Covenant House California: $11k → 14%Covenant House California: $2k → 14%PETALUMA PEOPLES SERVICES CENTER: $512 → 8%Petaluma Peoples Services Center: $500 → 8%Petaluma Peoples Services Center: $500 → 8%Central Works: $9k → 10%Naral Pro-Choice America: $500 → 14%RITTER CENTER: $3k → 8%CENTRAL WORKS: $9k → 10%Ritter Center: $3k → 8%Central Works: $8k → 10%CENTRAL WORKS: $5k → 10%Ritter Center: $1k → 8%Central Works: $12k → 10%Central Works: $11k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 10%Central Works: $10k → 10%Center for Young Womens Development: $2k → 10%Dry Dock: $500 → 10%Dry Dock: $250 → 10%Dry Dock: $200 → 10%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

WA
ID
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
VA
DC
AL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 57 repeat orgs$192k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
56

Total granted

$1.2M
$156k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+4%

Still filing today

70%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesCrime & LegalInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • OT
    OAKLAND THEATER PROJECT
    7× · 2018–2024 · $111k · revenue +196%
  • VV
    VIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $67k · revenue +30%
  • CW
    CENTRAL WORKS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $62k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • TB
    Theater Bay Area
    one grant, 2019 · $17k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
  • SF
    Swords for Plowshares
    one grant, 2019 · $13k
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
Marin Theatre Company

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…

Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company

Sfbatco unites artists and audiences through live theatre that is reflective of the authentic perspectives and history of the san francisco bay area.

Arts & Culture
3
Sustainable Conservation

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…

Environment
4
San Francisco Performances Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Stages

Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.

Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
7
Rescape California

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…

Environment
8
Presidio Theatre

The mission of the presidio theatre is to ensure that the magic of live performance is accessible to the entire community.

Philanthropy
9
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

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.

Animals
10
Oakland Museum of California

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…

Arts & Culture
11
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
12
Playground

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Foundation of California; 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.
04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 122 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
42/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Swords to Plowshares: $79,118 · OtherSwords to PlowsharesIndividual grant recipient: $63,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCG JUNG INSTITUTE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $50,000 · OtherCG JUNG INSTITUTE OF SAN FRANCISCOIndividual grant recipient: $28,500 · OtherBay Area Wilderness Training: $28,030 · OtherFood Shift Earth Island Institute: $24,750 · OtherCALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $24,600 · OtherBay Area Wilderness Training - BAWT: $24,500 · OtherWomens Earth Alliance-Earth Isl Ins: $23,000 · Other+65 more: $329,748 · Other+65 moreOAKLAND THEATER PROJECT: $111,000 · Arts & CultureOAKLAND THEATER PROJECTTheatre Bay Area: $86,161 · Arts & CultureTheatre Bay AreaCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $28,645 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCI…PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $24,367 · Arts & CulturePLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION IN…AFRICAN-AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $13,490 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $41,365 · Arts & Culture+14 moreVIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION: $67,000 · EnvironmentVIDA VERDE NATURE…MARIN AUDUBON SOCIETY: $58,500 · EnvironmentMARIN AUDUBON SOC…AMERICAN RIVERS INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS I…RESTORE THE DELTA: $24,000 · EnvironmentRESTORE THE DELTAEarth Island Institute Inc: $23,700 · EnvironmentEarth Island Inst…+6 more: $12,500 · Environment+6 moreCENTRAL WORKS: $62,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL WOR…COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $47,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HO…RITTER CENTER: $27,010 · Human ServicesRITTER CENT…+6 more: $6,512 · Human ServicesFreedom FWD-DBA Freedom Forward: $20,000 · Crime & LegalEssie Justice Group: $4,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,200 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $353 · Crime & LegalHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $13,018 · HealthMERCADO GLOBAL INC: $3,562 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $2,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $200 · International
Other$675,246Arts & Culture$305,028Environment$210,700Human Services$143,022Crime & Legal$26,553Health$13,018International$5,762

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 budgetOAKLAND THEATER PROJECT: $111,000 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetTheatre Bay Area: $86,161 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetVIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION: $67,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetCENTRAL WORKS: $62,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetMARIN AUDUBON SOCIETY: $58,500 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetCG JUNG INSTITUTE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $47,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $28,645 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRITTER CENTER: $27,010 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $24,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $24,367 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetRESTORE THE DELTA: $24,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $23,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom FWD-DBA Freedom Forward: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAFRICAN-AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $13,490 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $13,018 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCutting Ball Theater: $8,721 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $7,230 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE INC: $7,030 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBlue Earth Alliance: $5,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLower Bottom Playaz Inc: $5,100 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Good Shepherd Gracenter of San Francisco: $5,057 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA: $4,139 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEssie Justice Group: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Aurora Theatre Company: $3,602 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMERCADO GLOBAL INC: $3,562 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBAY AREA CHILDRENS THEATRE FKA ACTIVE ARTS THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIEN: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Playhouse: $3,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $2,349 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLiteracy for Environmental Justice: $2,030 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAshkenaz Music & Dance Community Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $1,904 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER: $1,512 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $1,230 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINNARAINBOW INC DBA CAMP WINNARAINBOW: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShotgun Players: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC: $1,049 over 1y, 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 San Francisco Fou…East Bay Community Fo…The Zellerbach Family…Marin Community Found…Phyllis C Wattis Foun…The Shubert Foundatio…Bothin FoundationThe William & Flora H…The Leo J & Celia Car…The Bernard Osher Fou…The Sam Mazza Foundat…Fleishhacker Foundati…
The San Francisco FoundationCA39× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Rhe Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rhe Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Rhe Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Rhe Charitable 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 122 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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