North Carolina · Private foundation
Rao Family 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.
- $37k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 56 to 77
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Rao Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 21 | $37k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $73k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 75 | $95k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 69 | $74k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 73 | $83k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 77 | $71k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 63 | $59k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 56 | $66k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $35,000 | 8 | 0% |
| American Gastroenterological Association Institute | $32,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Pratham USA | $25,600 | 8 | 0% |
| North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation | $25,160 | 8 | 1% |
| Pennies for Education & Health | $23,500 | 7 | 4% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $22,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $22,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $21,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Triangle Land Conservancy Inc | $19,500 | 9 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $17,900 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 89 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($178k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rao Family 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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Neisler Foundation TUA · Strowd Roses Inc · Grace Jones Richardson Testamentary Trust C/O Piedmont Trust Co · Albemarle Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Rao Family Foundation
- How much does Rao Family Foundation give?
- Rao Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $36,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 77 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rao Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (17%), Education (16%), Health (15%).
- Who are Rao Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($35k), American Gastroenterological Association Institute ($32k), Pratham USA ($26k).
- Does Rao Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rao Family 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 Rao Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Duke Energy Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is Rao Family Foundation based?
- Rao Family Foundation is based in NC.
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