Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
RHIZE
RHIZE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,008,654 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($500,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $24k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $-414610
What Rhize does
Mission
Rhize is creating a global system of movement support by investing in grassroots actors and resources, thereby leading to more activated, connected, sustained movements who will be able to envision and build a society where power is rooted in the people.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Rhize coaching fellowship - the rcf brings together movement leaders, coaches, trainers, organizers and activists working with movements to learn from each other and gain new skills to support movements. During the program, more junior coaching fellows get trained in the complete Rhize toolkit, join a network of movement building peers, and receive stipends to apply their new skills & trainings to movements in their local communities. The more advanced coaching mentors receive technical and financial support in expanding their training networks and local activist communities.
$131,480 spent82% of program spendingSector education - through public and private trainings, Rhize works with philanthropic organizations and large ngos to bring a movement mindset to their teams, programs, or grantees to effectively support the emergence of movements in their communities.
$26,243 spent$20,000 earned by the program16% of program spendingGeneral movement support - in addition to Rhize's formal programs and trainings, the organization invests in creating tools to use in future movement support work, and provides ad hoc support to certain movement actors.
$2,712 spent$986 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $160,435.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $158k to $414k (+162%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of RHIZE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $230k → $27.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of RHIZE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
RHIZE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 91% · 2019 80% · 2020 75% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
13% of RHIZE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
RHIZE draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $103k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
RHIZE's revenue fell 95% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,000 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like RHIZE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RHIZE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RHIZE?
- RHIZE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,008,654 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($500,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RHIZE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,008,654 in grants to RHIZE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RHIZE?
- WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RHIZE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing