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The Rising 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.

$342k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$88k
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 2025.

Food & Nutrition$222kInternational$187kHealth$165kHuman Services$151kYouth Development$130kPhilanthropy$85kScience & Tech$50kCrime & Legal$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $254k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $88k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAFE PLACE INTERNATIONAL$88,477
DOULA FOR THE PEOPLE$25,000
GOOD WORK INSTITUTE$25,000
AGROECOLOGY COMMONS$25,000
FRESH APPROACH$25,000
CONSCIOUSNESS AND HEALING INITIATIV$25,000
BIONUTRIENT FOOD ASSOCIATION$25,000
CHILDREN OF THE RAINFOREST$25,000
AFRIPEACE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$25,000
SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC ENTERPRISES OF$23,765
EMPOWERMENT WORKS$20,000
MODERN FAMILY INSTITUTE$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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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $286k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OPEN SOURCE WELLNESS: $25k → 10%CONSCIOUSNESS AND HEALING INITIATIV: $25k → 11%INSIDE CIRCLE: $25k → 12%GOOD WORK INSTITUTE: $25k → 16%OPEN SOURCE WELLNESS: $25k → 10%CONSCIOUSNESS AND HEALING INITIATIV: $25k → 11%INSIDE CIRCLE: $25k → 12%OPEN SOURCE WELLNESS: $25k → 10%CONSCIOUSNESS AND HEALING INITIATIV: $25k → 11%OPEN SOURCE WELLNESS: $20k → 10%CONSCIOUSNESS AND HEALING INITIATIV: $25k → 11%OPEN SOURCE WELLNESS: $5k → 10%CONSCIOUSNESS AND HEALING INITIATIV: $11k → 11%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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$752k · 10 repeat orgs$480k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
16

Total granted

$752k
$326k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+18%

Still filing today

80%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionInternationalPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • SP
    Safe Place International
    4× · 2019–2025 · $167k · revenue +111%
  • CA
    CONSCIOUSNESS AND HEALING INITIATIVE INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $111k · revenue +203%
  • OS
    OPEN SOURCE WELLNESS
    5× · 2018–2022 · $100k · revenue ×28

Funded once

  • RL
    RAINBOW LABS MENTORING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +55%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • AK
    All Kings Project Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +471%
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
Equitable Food Initiative

EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.

Human Services
2
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
3
Responsible Innovation Labs Inc

Building infrastructure that helps high-performing startups drive competitive advantage while advancing human flourishing and avoiding downstream harms to people, communities, and planet.

Science & Tech
4
Post Growth Institute

To design and uplift equitable approaches that inherently circulate money and intentionally circulate power in our local communities & global economy.

Public Benefit
5
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

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6
Deep Medicine Circle

The Deep Medicine Circle is a nonprofit organization dedicated to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story and learning. Starting from a place of correcting relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people,…

Health
7
Well Beings

Well Beings is growing a next-gen movement that elevates and unites animal welfare and environmental protection by shining a spotlight on new models and helping to scale the most promising solutions.

Human Services
8
Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture
9
The Breakthrough Institute

The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.

Environment
10
Groundswell International Inc

Groundswell International strenghtens communities to build healthy farming and food systems from the ground up.

International
11
Collaborative Earth Institute

We are scientists and engineers, humanists and designers. Coming together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries, we form focused teams to discover and co-create pathways to social and ecological regeneration.

Science & Tech
12
Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant

We promote reciprocity in the psychedelic community, and support the protection of sacred plants and cultural traditions. We advance psychedelic justice through curating critical conversations and uplifting the voices of women, queer…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inquiring Systems Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 33 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONSCIOUSNESS AND HEALING INITIATIVE INC: $110,750 · Human ServicesCONSCIOUSNESS AND HEALING …OPEN SOURCE WELLNESS: $100,000 · Human ServicesOPEN SOURCE WELLNESSINSIDE-OUTSIDE CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesINSIDE-OUTSIDE CIRCLE FOUN…Good Work Institute Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesGood Work Institute IncBOYS TO MEN: $30,000 · OtherBOYS TO MENREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $25,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFOR…AFRIPEACE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherAFRIPEACE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONCIVILIZATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $25,000 · OtherCIVILIZATION RESEARCH INSTITUTEREIMAGINE SCIENCE: $25,000 · OtherREIMAGINE SCIENCEORGANIZ FOR REFUGE ASYLYM MIGRATION: $23,000 · OtherORGANIZ FOR REFUGE ASYLYM MIGRATIONMASIYEMBO ASSOCIATION: $23,000 · OtherMASIYEMBO ASSOCIATIONIndividual grant recipient: $22,918 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNYCEDUORG INC: $22,000 · OtherNYCEDUORG INCMISSION BE: $15,000 · OtherDoula For The People: $25,000 · OtherDoula For The PeopleAll Kings Project Inc: $25,000 · OtherAll Kings Project IncINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $25,000 · OtherINQUIRING SYSTEMS INCSUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC ENTERPRISES OF LA DBA FOOD ACCESS LOS ANGELES: $23,765 · OtherSUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC ENTERPRISES OF …IKIGAI PROJECT: $45,000 · OtherIKIGAI PROJECT+2 more: $15,000 · OtherSafe Place International: $166,677 · InternationalSafe Place Intern…Empowerment Works Inc: $20,000 · InternationalEmpowerment Works…Agroecology Commons: $75,000 · Food & NutritionAgroecology C…BIONUTRIENT FOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionBIONUTRIENT F…FRESH APPROACH: $25,000 · Food & NutritionFRESH APPROAC…CHILDREN OF THE RAINFOREST INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyTHE WVI DOLPHIN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyINSTITUTE FOR PEACEABLE COMMUNITIES INC: $50,000 · EducationSustainable Economies Law Center: $25,000 · EducationRAINBOW LABS MENTORING INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOUL SHOPPE PROGRAMS: $5,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$285,750Other$394,683International$186,677Food & Nutrition$150,000Philanthropy$85,000Education$75,000Youth Development$55,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSafe Place International: $166,677 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetCONSCIOUSNESS AND HEALING INITIATIVE INC: $110,750 over 5y, 21% of budgetOPEN SOURCE WELLNESS: $100,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCHILDREN OF THE RAINFOREST INC: $75,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetAgroecology Commons: $75,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetINSIDE-OUTSIDE CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetBIONUTRIENT FOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR PEACEABLE COMMUNITIES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetRAINBOW LABS MENTORING INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAll Kings Project Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSustainable Economies Law Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC ENTERPRISES OF LA DBA FOOD ACCESS LOS ANGELES: $23,765 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetModern Family Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetTHE WVI DOLPHIN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetSOUL SHOPPE PROGRAMS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Amalgamated Charitabl…The San Francisco Fou…Stupski FoundationClif Family FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…ImpactassetsincNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA17.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Stupski Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%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
    2get no government money at all
    6report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Rising Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Rising 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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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