· Private foundation
The Rjm Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $283k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $465k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK | $150,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC | $140,000 |
| PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CAMPHILL VILLAGE KIMBERTON HILLS INC | $25,000 |
| CARNIVORE PRESERVATION INC - CAROLINA TIGER RESCUE | $25,000 |
| YOUTH MENTORING PARTNERSHIP | $20,000 |
| NATURAL LANDS TRUST INCORPORATED | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC | $20,000 |
| DEVON HORSE SHOW & COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $10,000 |
| STOP THE ADDICTION FATALITY EPIDEMIC - SAFE - PROJECT US | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +46% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- CCCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2024 · $665k · revenue +39%
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC5× · 2020–2024 · $590k · revenue +46%- PMPAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $400k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- WGWESTTOWN-EAST GOSHEN REGIONAL POLICE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2022 · $50k
- DSDE SMET JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $20k
- CPCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFEone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -15%
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.
To preserve, steward, and connect people to the land in northern chester county pennsylvania. see additional information on schedule o.french & pickering is recognized as a leader in regional land conservation, the organization is…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To conserve and restore the natural resources through land conservation, water resources stewardship and environmental outreach across central pennsylvania.
Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…
The mission of the lancaster county conservancy is "providing wild and forested lands and clean waterways for our community forever". the charitable purposes of the lancaster county conservancy include preservation of natural lands,…
We are a community based organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of significant open spaces, natural resources, and our historic heritage.
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
The mission of Central Pennsylvania Conservancy (CPC) is to acquire, preserve, and protect local land and natural resources in a five-county, South-Central PA region. Our vision is to create a local network of permanently protected and…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chester County Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis 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 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 35 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 CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMPHILL VILLAGE KIMBERTON HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MENTORING PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Natural Lands Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Ryerss Farm for Aged Equines ↗
- Who funds Willistown Conservation Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds MALVERN FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Glen Moore Fire Co No 1 ↗
- Who funds THE DEVON HORSE SHOW AND COUNTRY FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOSHEN FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds STOP THE ADDICTION FATALITY EPIDEMIC (SAFE) PROJECT US ↗
- Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
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: Chester County Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Macelree Family Foundation · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Colket Family Foundation · Quaker City Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Rjm 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.
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.