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Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2025
32
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$120,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 32
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$24M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHealthArts & CultureInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving29$1.0M7%
FY202432$967k22%
FY202332$880k19%
FY202229$824k14%
FY202126$797k15%
FY202023$720k26%
FY201922$739k18%
FY201820$631k10%
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What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.4MHealth$1.2MHuman Services$1.1MYouth Development$846kArts & Culture$782kHousing & Shelter$427kEmployment$378kFood & Nutrition$339kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Van Go Inc$341,00096%
Elizabeth Ballard Community Center Inc$320,00057%
The Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center Inc$265,00046%
Lawrence Meals on Wheels Inc$238,50099%
Lawrence Humane Society$218,00082%
Piney Woods School$205,00051%
Lawrence Arts Center Inc$196,50052%
United Way of Kaw Valley Inc$175,00031%
Family Promise of Lawrence Inc$155,00093%
Plymouth Congregational Church$141,0009n/a
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVan Go Inc: $341,000 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetElizabeth Ballard Community Center Inc: $320,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetThe Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center Inc: $265,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetLawrence Meals on Wheels Inc: $238,500 over 9y, 9.3% of budgetLawrence Humane Society: $218,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetPiney Woods School: $205,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetLawrence Arts Center Inc: $196,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetUnited Way of Kaw Valley Inc: $175,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFamily Promise of Lawrence Inc: $155,000 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetLawrence Habitat for Humanity: $140,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetLawrence Children's Choir Inc: $121,000 over 9y, 13% of budgetJust Food of Douglas County Ks Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLmh Health Foundation: $100,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLawrence City Band Inc: $82,000 over 9y, 9.2% of budgetThe Willow Domestic Violence Center Inc: $75,577 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLawrence Community Shelter Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBaker University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Kansas Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetMid America Performing Arts Allianc: $27,960 over 2y, 17% of budgetHeadquarters Kansas Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetClaires Community Inc: $14,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetDouglas County Legal Aid Society Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetShelter Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTheatre Lawrence Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLawrence Schools Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Zoological Foundation: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Douglas County Community FoundationKS63.6× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Douglas County Community Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Kriz Charitable Fund Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Topeka Community Foundation · ASSISTS FOUNDATION co KANSAS BASKETBALL OFFICE · United Way of Douglas County Inc · The Sunderland Foundation · The Shumaker Family Foundation · The Rotary Club of Lawrence Inc

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.

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About Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation

How much does Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation give?
Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $1,049,670 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Health (16%), Human Services (15%).
Who are Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Van Go Inc ($341k), Elizabeth Ballard Community Center Inc ($320k), The Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center Inc ($265k).
Does Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Douglas County Community Foundation, Midcontinent Foundation, Kansas Health Foundation.
Where is Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation based?
Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation is based in KS.

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 60 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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