· Private foundation
Joseph B Scheller and Rita P Scheller Foundation (Rj Foundation)
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LITERACY CENTER- LV | $30,000 |
| WASHINGTON URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE | $23,000 |
| BREASTCANCERORG | $23,000 |
| MUHLENBERG COLLEGE- INSTITUTE FOR RELIGION CULTURE AND PUBLIC LIFE | $15,000 |
| THE CLAY STUDIOTHE CLAYMOBILE | $9,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SEPT PROGRAM | $6,000 |
| WESTMINSTER CENTER OF FINANCE WELLNESS | $5,000 |
| HUNTSMAN CANCER INSTITUTE- UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $5,000 |
| ABC OF TETON VALLEY | $5,000 |
| HYDE PARK ART CENTER | $4,000 |
| ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM- DOCENT EDUCATIONAL FUND | $3,500 |
| IACOCCA GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTENSIVE | $2,000 |
| THE HISPANIC CHAMBER OF LEHIGH VALLEY- FE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FLOW THROUGH FROM BAUPOST | $46 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TLTHE LITERACY CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $212k · revenue +6%
- TSTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE3× · 2019–2021 · $200k · revenue +56%
- WUWASHINGTON URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $117k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- DSDREYFOOS SCHOOL OF ARTSone grant, 2022 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $40k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds MUHLENBERG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BREASTCANCERORG ↗
- Who funds THE CLAY STUDIO ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HYDE PARK ART CENTER ↗
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: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joseph B Scheller and Rita P Scheller Foundation (Rj Foundation) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph B Scheller and Rita P Scheller Foundation (Rj Foundation). Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
How this is measured
Play a game based on Joseph B Scheller and Rita P Scheller Foundation (Rj Foundation)’s filings →