· Private foundation
The Rhombus Foundation
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of The Rhombus Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $177k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST VINCENTS ACADEMY | $60,000 |
| MUSICAL DRAMATIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| AFRICA RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FUND (AREF AFRICA) | $40,000 |
| ST VINCENTS ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| EBUNJAN PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| TRY ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN OYSTER SELLERS | $12,000 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC | $10,000 |
| ATLAS ECONOMIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION - ATLAS NETWORK | $10,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC | $10,000 |
| SISTER TO SISTER OF MONTCLAIR MENTORING GROUP INC | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP | $10,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| HOPE FOR HAITI INC | $10,000 |
| SISTER TO SISTER OF MONTCLAIR MENTORING GROUP INC | $10,000 |
| PANZI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 US giving — 78% of grant dollars ($267k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 22% that went abroad ($77k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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
Beyond the US — 22% of all-years giving ($77k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
In recognition of the fundamental principles of the universal declaration of human rights, international bridges to justice (ibj) is dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries. specifically,…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…
To achieve legal and systematic change that addresses violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
To promote and protect human rights in the United States and around the world.
Undertake the documentation of human rights violations in the Horn of Africa, conduct a study on conflict related sexual violence
MedGlobal is a humanitarian non-governmental organization working to serve vulnerable communities around the world by providing innovative, free, and sustainable healthcare. Our health services support refugees, displaced persons, and…
Provide financial, moral and material assistances to high school girls in Colorado United States of America and in Republic Democratic of Congo Africa.
Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc and the most unlike its peers is Better Burma. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 24 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 MUSICAL DRAMATIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SISTER TO SISTER OF MONTCLAIR MENTORING GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds PANZI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP ↗
- Who funds SUCCEED2GETHER INC ↗
- Who funds Kurandza ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER BURMA ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIC MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE DEFENDERS (USA) INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds United Community Corporation ↗
- Who funds START OUT FRESH INTERVENTION ADVOCATES 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: Investors Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Rhombus 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Community Corporation — 45% of income from government
- Hope for Haiti 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.