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The Rjg Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$76k
Granted FY2022
18
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

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’19
21
’20
20
’21
14
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Philanthropy$947kHealth$307kFood & Nutrition$93kEducation$75kArts & Culture$45kEnvironment$13kHousing & Shelter$10kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0
02FY2022 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k14 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TULANE UNIVERSITY$2,500
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL$2,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS$2,000
EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC$2,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION THE$2,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO$1,500
UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$1,500
NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE$1,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE: $1k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR HOMELESS: $3k → 10%NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE: $1k → 8%NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE: $1k → 8%NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE: $1k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $5k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
RI
CO
MO
DC
LA
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$516k · 18 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +50% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
9

Total granted

$516k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+50%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
HealthEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $240k · revenue +77%
  • Food Research & Action Center
    4× · 2019–2022 · $70k · revenue +125%
  • MILTON ACADEMY
    4× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +50%
  • UF
    UJA - FEDERAL OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +1%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
2
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

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.

Health
3
Trustees of Boston College

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…

Education
4
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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5
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
6
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
7
Western New England University

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…

Education
8
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
9
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

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,…

Health
10
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

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.…

Health
11
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
12
The Broad Institute Inc

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.…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Bread-the Walk for Hunger Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/31
Grantees still filing
28/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FJC: $922,970 · Crime & LegalFJC+1 more: $3,000 · Crime & LegalBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $240,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS …STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $33,500 · HealthSTEADMAN PHILIPPON RES…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $14,500 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $14,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthThe Carnegie Hall Society Inc: $24,300 · OtherTHE CLOUD ARTSCIENCE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherLCRC LAND CONSERVATION CORP: $12,500 · OtherUJA - FEDERAL OF NEW YORK: $10,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC: $7,500 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 · OtherRESTAURANT WORKERS COVID19 CRISIS RELIEF FUND: $5,000 · OtherTHE SEVEN AND EIGHT PARK STREET FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Other+5 more: $7,500 · OtherFood Research & Action Center: $70,000 · Food & NutritionPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $2,500 · Food & NutritionMILTON ACADEMY: $40,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $21,500 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $5,000 · EducationMassachusetts Maritime Academy Foundation Inc: $3,000 · EducationTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $3,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,500 · EducationEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO: $7,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation Inc: $5,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesNEW ENGLAND VILLAGE INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $2,500 · Human Services
Crime & Legal$925,970Health$304,000Other$89,800Food & Nutrition$82,500Education$75,000Philanthropy$24,500Human Services$11,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFJC: $922,970 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $240,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFood Research & Action Center: $70,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $33,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $21,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLOUD ARTSCIENCE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $14,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC: $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND VILLAGE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Maritime Academy Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDISABILITY LAW CENTER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEVEN AND EIGHT PARK STREET FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Mountain Rescue Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSICWORKS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Boston Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
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)
2rely 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

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How do I get to The Rjg Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Rjg Charitable 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 36 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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