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The Rr 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.

$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$250
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$9kInternational$7kFood & Nutrition$5kHuman Services$3kEducation$2kEnvironment$750Housing & Shelter$575Philanthropy$250Other$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$150
Median grant
8
States reached
$86k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALBION COLLEGE$250
GLEANER'S$250
STJUDE CHILDERN HOSPITAL$250
UNICEF USA$200
NO KID HUNGRY$200
CHILD FUND$150
STJOSEPH INDIAN SCHOOL$150
SHRINEY'S CHILDERN'S HOSPITAL$150
COVENANT HOUSE$150
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$150
MAKE A WISH$150
WORLD HELP$125
LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA$125
CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN$125
Individual grant recipient$125
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $375) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $125 → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $250 → 17%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

IL
MI
NY
SD
CT
CA
MO
VA
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20k · 17 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
13

Total granted

$20k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+34%

Still filing today

71%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    7× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +76%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +145%
  • SMILE TRAIN INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • NK
    National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +93%
  • DC
    DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +3%
  • WU
    WAHSINGTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $250
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
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
2
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
3
Americares Foundation Inc

Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).

International
4
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
5
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
6
Childfund International Usa

Childfund's mission is to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities, and to promote societies whose individuals…

International
7
Helen Keller International

Guided by her remarkable legacy of its co-founder, helen keller, helen keller intl partners with communities that are striving to overcome longstanding cycles of poverty. by delivering the essential building blocks of good health, sound…

International
8
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
9
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
10
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
11
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
12
Edward W Sparrow Hospital

Improving the health of the people in our communities by providing quality, compassionate care to everyone, every time.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc. 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

22 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. 22 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
19/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SMILE TRAIN INC: $2,050 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCFREE THE KIDS (HAITI): $1,150 · OtherFREE THE KIDS (HAITI)Individual grant recipient: $500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $450 · OtherST JUDE'S HOSPITAL: $375 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $325 · Other+21 more: $3,700 · Other+21 moreUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $3,350 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FO…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,600 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIE…Mercy Ships International: $200 · International+1 more: $125 · InternationalST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,250 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S …National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc: $1,760 · HealthNational Kidney Fou…DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC: $500 · HealthDEVELOPMENT CENTERS…THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $250 · Health+1 more: $125 · HealthGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $2,850 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS COMMU…FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $900 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HARV…ALBION COLLEGE: $2,000 · EducationALBION COLLE…ISHA FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 · EducationISHA FOUNDAT…LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $1,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $250 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $125 · Human ServicesWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $750 · Environment
Other$8,550International$5,275Health$4,885Food & Nutrition$3,750Education$3,250Human Services$1,875Environment$750

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 budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $3,350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $2,850 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $2,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALBION COLLEGE: $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc: $1,760 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetISHA FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Help: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $125 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.

Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC9.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Rr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Rr Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Rr 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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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where grant money is based, and what stays home