How much did The Rivers Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of The Rivers 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

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2021

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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 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $1k
$10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$250k+2 grants · $706k

$250,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

ST MICHAEL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$455,551
DOMINICAN SMME CORPORATION$250,000
COEUR DU CHRIST ACADEMY INC$30,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS$1,000

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 (FY17–20, $459k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.5M · 15 repeat orgs$279k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.5M

$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%

+54%

Still filing today

40%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentReligionHealthCivil RightsEducationOther

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

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CATHOLIC YOUTH SUMMER CAMP INC
3× · 2019–2022 · $1000k · revenue +194%
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AGNUS DEI FOUNDATION
3× · 2017–2019 · $274k · revenue +62% · 35% of their budget
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CULTURE OF LIFE FAMILY SERVICES
3× · 2017–2020 · $175k · revenue +171%

Funded once

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CATHOLIC CHURCH EXTENSION SOCIETY OF US OF AMER
one grant, 2017 · $50k
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IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC
one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -31%
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RADY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL - SAN DIEGOgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $36k · revenue +54%

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.

Spirit Juice Entertainment Group Nfp

Produces and delivers original, high quality and authentically Catholic content for free online. We aim to evangelize the culture through the power of high quality visual media and

Religion

Catholic Answers Inc

Apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world.

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Catholics Come Home Inc

Television & radio commercials to invite Catholics to return to the practice of their faith.

Religion

The Children of the Father

Evangelizing & distribution of literature for the roman catholic church

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Ave Maria Communications

Ave Maria Communications employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotions and music to demonstrate the good news that Jesus is Lord over all areas of life. Through these means and activities we show that…

Religion

Catholic Guardian Services

Catholic Guardian Services (the "Agency"), a not-for-profit membership Corporation, offers a variety of services, including, but not limited to, foster care, unaccompanied children program, people with developmental disabilities(PW/DD)…

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Living His Life Abundantly International

To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church

Religion

Family Research Council

Our vision is a culture in which all human life is valued, families flourish, and religious liberty thrives.

Human Services

Divine Mercy Radio Inc

To unite souls to jesus christ through the broadcasting of high quality, appealing, educational and spiritually enriching programming, proclaiming the doctrinal truth as decreed by the universal christian church

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Catholic Family Services

Provides professional, pastoral services that support and empower people of all ages and faiths.

Human Services

Atlanta Catholic Radio Inc

To invite, inform, and inspire listeners to embrace their journey of faith through the beauty of the Catholic Church.

Arts & Culture

Couples for Christ Mission Fdn California

The organizations conducts Christian Life Programs, marriage enrichment retreats and conferences to strengthen participants Catholic faith as it relates to family life including relationships between spouses and their children

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is PROMISES2KIDS Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Immaculate Heart Media 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

16 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)

12/16

Grantees still filing

13/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,102,551Youth Development$1,030,999Human Services$460,500Religion$80,000Health$66,000Education$30,000Civil Rights$10,000

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.

God's GiftCA13.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: God's Gift · Sempra Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Rivers 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.

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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: AGNUS DEI FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +62% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 371692998 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 AGNUS DEI FOUNDATION, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 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 35% 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 Rivers Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Rivers 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 Rivers 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

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Rivers Foundation?

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The Rivers 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

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Rivers Foundation?

More from the funding graph