How much does The Rimora Foundation give?

The Rimora Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $1,112,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 49 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Rimora Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (70%), Recreation & Sports (22%), Philanthropy (1%).

Who are The Rimora Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cornell University ($16M), Virginia Student Aid Foundation Inc ($4.8M), St Anne's-Belfield Inc ($1.6M).

Does The Rimora Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Rimora Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Rimora Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, Manning Family Foundation, Perry Foundation Inc.

Where is The Rimora Foundation based?

The Rimora Foundation is based in VA.

The Rimora Foundation

The Rimora Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Rimora 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.

$1.1M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$600k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$19MRecreation & Sports$5.9MPhilanthropy$355kHealth$350kYouth Development$335kArts & Culture$225kHuman Services$175kFood & Nutrition$135kOther$0

02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k15 grants · $75k
$10k–50k14 grants · $205k
$50k–250k2 grants · $232k
$250k+1 grant · $600k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CORNELL UNIVERSITY	$600,000
AMERICAN HORSE TRIALS FOUNDATION INC	$130,000
ST ANNES-BELFIELD INC	$102,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA	$30,000
CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS INC	$30,000
VIRGINIA SOCIETY OF ORINTHOLOGY	$20,000
COMPUTERS4KIDS	$20,000
BRISTOL VALLEY THEATER	$15,000
PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC	$10,000
VIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC	$10,000
CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE	$10,000
CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY	$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA	$10,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC	$10,000
FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION	$10,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$27M · 51 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$27M

$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

Still filing today

75%

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationRecreation & SportsHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

Cornell University
6× · 2020–2025 · $16M · revenue +46%
VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +51%
SA
ST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +24%

Funded once

KH
KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -49%
GC
GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +68%
SC
SENIOR CENTER INC
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -11%

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.

Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health

Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health

Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health

Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Comm

The charlottesville regional chamber of commerce is a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of the commonwealth of virginia for the purpose of representing private enterprise, promoting business, economic growth and vitality, and…

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Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education

Vpm Media Corporation

To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…

Arts & Culture

Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center

Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.

Health

Central Virginia Partnership for Economic Development

To promote economic development in the charlottesville and central virginia region.

—

University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education

University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education

Uva Community Health Inc

Our mission: transforming health and inspiring hope for all virginians and beyond. our vision: to be the nation's leading public academic health system and a best place to work - while transforming patient care, research, education, and…

Health

University of Virginia Law School Foundation

The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cav Futures Foundation; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

44 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. 44 of the 58 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/44

Grantees still filing

31/44

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$23,259,000Other$1,285,000Recreation & Sports$891,000Philanthropy$465,000Health$360,000Youth Development$250,000Human Services$165,000

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

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.

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.

Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA60.9× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · The Genan Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Caplin Foundation · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Charlottesville · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Sentara Health · The Better Living 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 Rimora Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rimora Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

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.

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Find your warmest path to The Rimora 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.

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The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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