· Private foundation
Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $451k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $593k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOUGLAS CO VISITING NURSES | $120,000 |
| DWAYNE PEASLEE TECH TRAINING CENTER | $100,000 |
| BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER | $75,000 |
| BERT NASH HEALTH CENTER | $68,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB | $60,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY | $60,000 |
| VAN GO MOBILE ARTS INC | $60,000 |
| PINEY WOODS SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| LAWRENCE MEALS ON WHEELS INC | $35,250 |
| DOUGLAS CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $34,920 |
| LAWRENCE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $30,000 |
| JUST FOOD | $25,000 |
| LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE | $25,000 |
| LMH HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- EBELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $320k · revenue +66%
- TDThe Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center Inc4× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +106%
- LMLAWRENCE MEALS ON WHEELS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $239k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- LCLAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +140%
- BUBAKER UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +9%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KANSAS INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the Lawrence Farmers Market is to provide children and adults in the Lawrence, KS area, with locally grown foods and farm products. This will be accomplished by improving access to local, healthy, affordable food through a…
Economic prosperity through leadership, advocacy and investment in Douglas County.
To act as a catalyst and conduit for responsible growth and reinvestment in the lawrenceville community.
To broadly market the area as a year round visitor destination, thereby positively impacting the region's economy by retaining and attracting visitors to the city of lawrence and douglas county, kansas.
Promote growth and economic prosperity by serving as the leading business advocate, cultivating leadership and facilitating connectivity.
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The Lawrence Partnership believes the strongest economy is one that benefits the whole community. One where local businesses compete in regional and global markets; where local service providers meet the needs of their community; where the…
Provide emergency food and financial assistance to needy families.
Provides community leadership to address social service issues that are pressing in our area and conducts community-wide fundraising efforts to address these impact programs.
Teach students using diverse learning strategies, ignite their potential and inspire academic, personal and social success
To provide leadership and influence to engage the kansas city, missouri community as well as the surrounding communities in creating the best service delivery system to support and strengthen children, families and individuals, holding…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Douglas County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Piney Woods School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VAN GO INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Piney Woods School ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds JUST FOOD OF DOUGLAS COUNTY KS INC ↗
- Who funds LMH HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE CITY BAND INC ↗
- Who funds The Willow Domestic Violence Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BAKER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DCCCA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds MID AMERICA PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.