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The Rjg Charitable Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Rjg Charitable Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Fjc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Rjg Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $76k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k14 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD RESEARCH AND ACTION CENTER | $15,000 |
| MILTON ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CARNEGIE HALL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $8,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION THE | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS | $2,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC | $2,000 |
| EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $1,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO | $1,500 |
| WGBH EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC4× · 2019–2022 · $240k · revenue +61%
Food Research & Action Center4× · 2019–2022 · $70k · revenue +125%
MILTON ACADEMY4× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +16%
Funded once
PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +50%- UFUJA - FEDERAL OF NEW YORKone grant, 2020 · $10k
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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 mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
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…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
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,…
THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Bread-the Walk for Hunger Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Cloud Artscience Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds FJC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Food Research & Action Center ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Carnegie Hall Society Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CLOUD ARTSCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Maritime Academy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEVEN AND EIGHT PARK STREET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Mountain Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organization The Rjg Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New England Village Inc — 68% of income from government
- Disability Law Center Inc — 57% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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