How much did THE RISING FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of THE RISING FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2020

covid

2021

trainingcovidyouth

2022

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2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

RAINBOW LABS$25,000
CONSCIOUSNESS AND HEALING INITIATIV$25,000
FEED BLACK FUTURES$25,000
CHILDREN OF THE RAINFOREST$25,000
SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIES LAW CENTERSEL$25,000
FUTURE WHENUA$22,918

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$539k · 9 repeat orgs$351k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +208% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$539k

$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+208%

+6%

Still filing today

56%

23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionHuman ServicesInternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

OS
OPEN SOURCE WELLNESS
5× · 2018–2022 · $100k · revenue +2721%
SP
SAFE PLACE INTERNATIONAL
3× · 2019–2022 · $78k · revenue +183%
IF
INSTITUTE FOR PEACEABLE COMMUNITIES
2× · 2021–2023 · $50k · revenue +208%

Funded once

BF
BIONUTRIENT FOOD ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -73%
CR
CIVILIZATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE
one grant, 2020 · $25k
AN
ACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PRO
one grant, 2023 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative

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Collaborative Earth Institute

We are scientists and engineers, humanists and designers. Working entirely in the open, we conduct scientific research and develop technologies that catalyze ecological regeneration at planetary scale.

Science & Tech

The Mind Body Ecology Institute

Creating a regenerative, equitable, and ecologically harmonious world.

Education

Greener Way Associates Inc

To engage employment-challanged communities in training of best practices and resources for installing long-term permaculture-based local food bearing gardens, as operationalized through UNESCOS Earth Charter.

Education

Community Cafe Collaborative

Charitable

Public Benefit

Seed Peace

To grow the local food supply by supporting farmers, preparing food plants for climate change and increasing health giving food availability for people in need

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Instituto Gaspar Yanga

Instituto Gaspar Yanga IGY provides holistic tools for women teaching artists youth and cultural workers working with BIPOC communities to embody healing justice and ecojustice pedagogies in action Our trauma-informed and healing-centered…

Education

Earth Island Institute Inc

Earth Island Institute (the Organization) was founded in 1982 by legendary environmentalist David R. Brower (1912-2000) to confront the unprecedented threats to life on Earth. The Organization supports environmental initiatives that are…

Environment

Wash Project

The Wash Project is a community-led initiative in Mali focused on developing economic opportunities for women through organic food production, access to clean water, and a commitment to environmental stewardship.

Health

The Indigenous Knowledge Collective

The Indigenous Knowledge Collective is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that serves people in New Mexico and Arizona in a Native lead environment to sustain the revitalization of traditional existence of Native People through Art Lessons,…

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Cihuapactli Collective

The Cihuapactli Collective's purpose is to provide healing for urban Indigenous Peoples from the diaspora. This is done by sharing wisdom, connecting resources, revitalizing Traditional Knowledge, promoting and advocating for health &…

Arts & Culture

Sokana Collective Worldwide

We are leading the change to remove barriers for birth workers and families through education and service.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Place International and the most unlike its peers is Children of the Rainforest Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

8/9

Grantees still filing

7/9

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$491,668Human Services$100,000International$78,200Food & Nutrition$75,000Education$50,000Philanthropy$50,000Science & Tech$45,000

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.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA5.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organisation THE RISING 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.

2024

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typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CHILDREN OF THE RAINFOREST.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +79% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 881998453 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CHILDREN OF THE RAINFOREST, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 16% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Rising Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Rising Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE RISING FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Rising Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE RISING FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Rising Foundation?

More from the funding graph