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The Rme Foundation Inc

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.

$150k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

98% of The Rme Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Rme Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 22 organizations, $150k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’17
2
’18
1
’20
6
’21
3
’22
25
’23
22
’24
9
’25

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

01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$774kArts & Culture$241kHealth$199kEducation$89kHuman Services$22kInternational$15kCommunity Improvement$14kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $117k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC$37,000
THE ALBRIGHT KNOX ART GALLERY$30,000
ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE$27,000
GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL$13,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$10,000
INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC$5,000
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES$5,000
WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION DBA BUFFALO PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD$3,500
THE MARTIN HOUSE$2,500
HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC$2,500
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC CHORUS INC$1,500
THE GORDON SCHOOL$1,000
NICHOLS SCHOOL$1,000
ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$1,000
KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $275) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $25 → 14%MARIA M LOVE CONVALESCENT FUND: $250 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$489k · 27 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, 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

27
15

Total granted

$489k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
0%

Still filing today

74%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

  • GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $109k · revenue +77%
  • TJ
    THE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $64k · revenue +20%
  • 716 Squash Inc
    3× · 2018–2024 · $5k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ALBANY MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • TB
    THE BISON FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • JI
    JACOB INSTITUTE IN MEMORY OF RN
    one grant, 2018 · $5k

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.

1
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
South Buffalo Charter School

South buffalo charter school provides elementary education to students in grades kindergarten through eighth grade. we are a professional learning community. our focus on learning is driven by research, data and collaborative reflection to…

Education
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
11
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Rochester General Health System

Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Garret Club Historic Preservation Foundation Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsFood Banks and PantriesEquine Therapy ProgramsYouth Sports ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr13%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%68%20–35yr11%2%35–55yr13%24%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,942

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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 47 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
17/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $768,883 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+3 more — $11,500 · PhilanthropyGRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $108,500 · Arts & CultureGRAND TETON MUSIC F…BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY — $74,500 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO FINE ARTS A…BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $54,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO PHILHARMONI…+2 more — $320 · Arts & CultureTHE ALBANY MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherTHE ALBANY …ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE — $28,000 · OtherALBANY MEDI…THE SALVATION ARMY — $21,000 · OtherTHE SALVATI…WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION DBA BUFFALO PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD — $11,500 · OtherWESTMINSTER…THE MARTIN HOUSE — $10,000 · OtherTHE MARTIN …THE BISON FUND — $5,000 · OtherJACOB INSTITUTE IN MEMORY OF RN — $5,000 · Other+17 more — $13,955 · Other+17 moreTHE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC — $64,225 · HealthTHE JACOBS …MAYO CLINIC — $50,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICINDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthINDIAN RIVE…+5 more — $9,250 · Health+5 moreNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO — $55,500 · EducationBUFFALO SEMINARY — $2,000 · Education+2 more — $1,250 · EducationCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES — $15,000 · International716 Squash Inc — $4,500 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$780,383Arts & Culture$237,320Other$144,455Health$133,475Education$58,750International$15,000Public Benefit$4,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $768,883 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $108,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY — $74,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC — $64,225 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO — $55,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $54,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget716 Squash Inc — $4,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO PHILHARMONIC CHORUS INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTeton County Search & Rescue Foundation — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO SEMINARY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRICHARDSON CENTER CORPORATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Gordon School — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARDEN SCHOOL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRMHC OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLONG ISLAND PINE BARRENS SOCIETY — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOTION PROJECT FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRENCH-AMERICAN SCHOOL OF RHODE ISLAND — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIA M LOVE CONVALESCENT FUND — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARRET CLUB HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION — $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STATE SHERIFFS' INSTITUTE — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Community Foundation …The Baird FoundationFoundation for Jewish…Ferguson Electric Fou…Robert & Patricia Col…Mulroy Family Foundat…Joseph R Takats Found…The Cameron and Jane …The Margaret L Wendt …First Niagara Foundat…Demakos FoundationJoanne and Frank Coll…
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY27× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Baird Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Ferguson Electric Foundation · Robert & Patricia Colby Foundation 115319998 · Mulroy Family Foundation · Joseph R Takats Foundation · The Cameron and Jane Baird Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Demakos Foundation · Joanne and Frank Collins Charitable 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 Rme Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Rme Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Rme Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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