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The Rica Charitable Trust

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.

$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Animals$1.4MHealth$675kArts & Culture$575kCommunity Improvement$575kEnvironment$550kEducation$500kFood & Nutrition$100kCivil Rights$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,171
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$25,171
HAWAI'I COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HAWAI'I COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%THE AUGUST WEST FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $75k → 17%URI RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $75k → 7%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $250k → 17%THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 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.
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 4 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$2.4M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+13%

Still filing today

75%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24
AnimalsHealthScience & TechEducationCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $675k · revenue +26%
  • TA
    THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER
    2× · 2021–2023 · $600k · revenue -5%
  • TP
    The Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum
    2× · 2021–2023 · $575k

Funded once

  • TN
    The National Audubon Society
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • NR
    National Resources Defense Council
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • SA
    SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +21%
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
8
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
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
11
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
12
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum: $575,000 · OtherThe Pierpont Morgan Library and MuseumThe National Audubon Society: $500,000 · OtherThe National Audubon SocietyNational Resources Defense Council: $500,000 · OtherNational Resources Defense Council+2 more: $54,000 · OtherTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $600,000 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CE…THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $250,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY …PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $675,171 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOO…UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $575,000 · Science & TechUNIVERSITY OF …SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $500,000 · EducationSAINT ANN'S …SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $100,000 · Crime & LegalFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $100,000 · Community ImprovementHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,629,000Animals$850,000Health$675,171Science & Tech$575,000Education$500,000Crime & Legal$100,000Community Improvement$100,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $675,171 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $600,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $575,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetSAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Rica Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rica Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Rica Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to The Rica Charitable Trust 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 13 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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