Maryland · Private foundation
Rast 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.
- $5.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,012,283
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $107M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Rast Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $511k 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 | 17 | $5.2M | 41% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $818k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $4.2M | 73% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $3.3M | 87% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $1.4M | 75% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington | $3,217,843 | 3 | 6% |
| Williams College | $1,150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Scotland African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Washington Ballet | $100,900 | 4 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hoffman Institute Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Country Day School of the Sacred Heart Inc | $45,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $42,120 | 5 | n/a |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $41,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Park Trust Inc | $18,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rast 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Rast Foundation
- How much does Rast Foundation give?
- Rast Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $5,814,578 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Rast Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (47%), Human Services (25%), Philanthropy (16%).
- Who are Rast Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington ($3.2M), Williams College ($1.1M), Scotland African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church ($250k).
- Does Rast Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rast 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 Rast Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, American Endowment Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Rast Foundation based?
- Rast Foundation is based in MD.
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