Illinois · Private foundation
Dr Petra and Owen Rissman Foundation
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.
- $274k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Dr Petra and Owen Rissman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $274k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $196k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $211k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $95k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $75k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $245k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $70k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $241k | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $155,000 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $150,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $144,975 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $110,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Endeavor Health Clinical Operations | $50,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Brain Research Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($882k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dr Petra and Owen Rissman Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Dr Petra and Owen Rissman Foundation
- How much does Dr Petra and Owen Rissman Foundation give?
- Dr Petra and Owen Rissman Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $273,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dr Petra and Owen Rissman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (25%), Philanthropy (25%), International (17%).
- Who are Dr Petra and Owen Rissman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($155k), University of Chicago ($150k), Chicago Symphony Orchestra ($145k).
- Does Dr Petra and Owen Rissman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dr Petra and Owen Rissman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dr Petra and Owen Rissman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Dr Petra and Owen Rissman Foundation based?
- Dr Petra and Owen Rissman Foundation is based in IL.
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