Empowering confident futures for youth...one community at a time. In 2014, RSM laid the footings of a giving strategy designed to be compelling to our people, our clients and our markets, while enhancing our longstanding support of the communities where our people live and work. The result is the RSM US Foundation, a tax-exempt public charity dedicated to empowering our people to make a difference for youth through community-based programming focused on education, hunger, housing and health.
Impact
As our firm continues to grow, so does our foundation’s impact, which totals US$58.8 million in support to organizations and programming in the areas where our people live and work, including the U.S., Canada, El Salvador and India.
Featured programs
At RSM, we take our commitment to stewardship seriously. That's why giving back to the communities where we live and work is a priority, and we work hard to leave our firm better than we found it. Learn more about some of our featured programs below.
The Power of Love is RSM’s annual stewardship campaign, where each office selects a local youth-focused charity to support with fundraising and volunteering opportunities. Offices host various fun events to encourage support from our people, family and friends, as well as team volunteering opportunities to maximize our impact on local communities. We amplify those efforts with an additional match from the RSM US Foundation, and the total impact is announced at The RSM Classic each November.
The Dollars for Doers program supports our people’s passions by magnifying their gifts of time to charitable organizations that support youth in their communities. Individual employees can earn up to a $3,200 CAD grant each. Groups of RSM volunteers have limitless grant-earning potential; the more hours volunteered, the more grant dollars earned.
Since the program’s 2015 inception, our professionals have volunteered more than 356,000 hours with charities that align with our mission.
In 2019, RSM launched a national relationship with Junior Achievement to expand volunteer engagement, financial support and access to hands-on learning experiences that help students build confidence in financial literacy, career readiness and entrepreneurship. With more than $3.65 million USD in grant funding, RSM has supported the development and expansion of the JA Take Stock in Your Future curriculum and JA Stock Market Challenge simulation, helping high school students learn how the stock market works, understand how current events can affect market performance and apply what they learn through a fast-paced investment simulation.
As of 2026, RSM supports programming in 37 local JA chapters across the U.S. and Canada. Together, this work helps equip youth with the confidence, skills and real-world perspective to navigate their futures and become the next generation of business leaders.
Our value of stewardship calls for us to give back and support the next generation of business and technology professionals by backing U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities. We do this through our University Match program, University Impact Fund and scholarships.
University Match
The University Match program, including personal donations from our people and a match from the foundation, has infused nearly $4 million into schools in the areas where our people live and work. The program has created longstanding funding to ensure students and faculty have the financial support needed to excel.
University Impact Fund
The University Impact Fund provides one-time grants to colleges and universities that influence communities where our people live and work. Funding supports programs and initiatives that build tomorrow's leaders. Since its inception in early 2020, the program has supported more than 120 initiatives across the U.S. and Canada.
We are honored to support business and technology students across the U.S. and Canada by alleviating the financial burden of funding their educations so they can focus on achieving their goals—in school and beyond.
Our University Scholarship program helps build tomorrow’s middle market leaders through one-time campus-based awards that support business and technology students. Each college and university selects and awards winning students on behalf of the RSM US Foundation. Since 2019, we’ve helped more than 600 students pursue their degrees.
In addition to our University Scholarship program, each year the RSM US Foundation awards students with scholarships as they pursue a bachelor’s degree in business or technology. These scholarships underscore RSM’s commitment to empowering the next generation of business and technology leaders through education and leadership development.
We are committed to supporting our people affected by federally declared disasters. Our Disaster Relief Fund directly supports our employees to help alleviate the unexpected financial burden caused by disastrous events outside their control.
We proudly support the American Red Cross with an annual contribution toward their domestic and international disaster planning and preparedness programming. This pre-investment in disaster planning and preparedness ensures tens of thousands of Red Cross workers — 90% of whom are volunteers — have the know-how, equipment and technology to turn heartbreak into hope and stand with disaster survivors as they rebuild their lives. Advance support also enables the Red Cross to provide people and communities with the knowledge and resources they need to face emergencies of all kinds, before they happen.
Making a difference
More than a monetary award that supports me through my education, the RSM Power Your Education scholarship brings me opportunities and encouragement that inspire me to keep learning, growing and pursuing my goals with confidence.
Ada Wang, University of Toronto
This funding truly makes a difference and reinforces RSM’s commitment to a culture of inclusion within our company and within the diverse communities and businesses we serve worldwide.
Dan Booth, inclusion manager