How much does Rather Family Foundation give?

Rather Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $1,675,885 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Rather Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (61%), Youth Development (16%), Health (15%).

Who are Rather Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Trustees of Boston College ($5.5M), Domus Kids Inc ($1.7M), New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc ($1.5M).

Does Rather Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Rather 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 Rather Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.

Where is Rather Family Foundation based?

Rather Family Foundation is based in NY.

Rather Family Foundation

Rather Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Rather 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.

$1.7M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$886k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$6.4MYouth Development$1.7MHealth$1.6MHuman Services$170kRecreation & Sports$111kReligion$94kFood & Nutrition$44kPhilanthropy$39kOther$0

02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k15 grants · $24k
$10k–50k5 grants · $136k
$50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$250k+3 grants · $1.5M

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BOSTON COLLEGE	$885,500
DOMUS FOUNDATION	$325,400
Individual grant recipient	$250,000
FOUNDATIONS IN EDUCATION	$55,000
Individual grant recipient	$38,650
INNER CITY FOUNDATION	$32,800
ST JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER	$28,425
ST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL	$26,000
ST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH	$10,000
FLYNN FOUNDATION	$5,000
LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE	$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE HEIGHTS-BC	$5,000
GRASSROOTS GROCERY	$2,500
Individual grant recipient	$1,750
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$9.7M · 18 repeat orgs$665k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.7M

$321k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

-9%

Still filing today

67%

28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $344k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
6× · 2020–2025 · $5.5M · revenue +50%
NY
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
3× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +8%
IC
INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $568k · revenue +18%

Funded once

BF
BPS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $105k · revenue 0%
KC
KOLBE CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL
one grant, 2024 · $27k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2024 · $25k

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.

04Its field

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.

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

St John's University New York

St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).

Education

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education

University of New Haven

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…

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc; the most unlike its peers is Black River Independent School Committee. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 61 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/27

Grantees still filing

14/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$5,517,500Other$2,935,307Health$1,523,600Philanthropy$226,200Human Services$170,175Food & Nutrition$27,500Arts & Culture$10,000

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY10.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rather Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rather Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home