Wisconsin · Private foundation
Rdk 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.
- $12M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 190
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2021
- Itemized, FY2024
- $11M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $825,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 45
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2024
- 34
- Total assets, FY2024
- $384M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 16% of the organizations Rdk Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 161 | $10M | 85% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $1.4M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $1.2M | 78% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $1.1M | 8% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $966k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creation and Preservation Partners Inc | $2,840,000 | 5 | 94% |
| John Michael Kohler Arts Center | $825,000 | 1 | n/a |
| John Michael Kohler Arts Center Inc | $640,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Friends of Fred Smith Inc | $240,000 | 5 | 49% |
| Edgewood University Inc | $240,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Headlands Center for the Arts | $220,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Inc | $220,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Friends of Prairie Moon | $217,000 | 5 | 50% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $210,000 | 1 | 1% |
| SOMArts | $205,000 | 1 | 6% |
Show all 170 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($631k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rdk Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 145 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Kohler Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Wisconsin Humanities Council Inc · Terra Foundation for American Art · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Robert Rauschenberg Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Via Art Fund Inc
How this is measured
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About Rdk Foundation
- How much does Rdk Foundation give?
- Rdk Foundation reported 190 itemized grants totaling $11,061,700, out of $12,431,700 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does Rdk Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Education (2%), Philanthropy (2%).
- Who are Rdk Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Creation and Preservation Partners Inc ($2.8M), John Michael Kohler Arts Center ($825k), John Michael Kohler Arts Center Inc ($640k).
- Does Rdk Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rdk 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 Rdk Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, Kohler Foundation Inc.
- Where is Rdk Foundation based?
- Rdk Foundation is based in WI.
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