Connecticut · Private foundation
Renard 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.
- $45k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
91% of Renard Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Renard Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $45k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Renard Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 18 | $45k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $47k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $44k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $37k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $47k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $46k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $32k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $34k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Opera Association | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| San Francisco Symphony | $27,750 | 6 | 0% |
| San Francisco Conservatory of Music | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Merola Opera Program | $5,875 | 5 | 0% |
| The Jewish Community Center in Sherman Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 9% |
| The Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Awareness | $4,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Danbury Hospital | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Hyde Hall Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Legal Outreach Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Olympic Club Foundation | $2,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Opera Association | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| San Francisco Symphony | $27,750 | 6 | 0% |
| San Francisco Conservatory of Music | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Merola Opera Program | $5,875 | 5 | 0% |
| The Jewish Community Center in Sherman Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 9% |
| The Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Awareness | $4,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Danbury Hospital | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Hyde Hall Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Legal Outreach Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Olympic Club Foundation | $2,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Miami Beach Police Athletic League Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| New Fairfield Sherman Animal Welfare Society Incorporated | $1,500 | 1 | 1% |
| San Francisco Ballet Association | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| San Francisco Opera Guild at the War Memorial Opera House | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Southampton Fresh Air Home | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| South Kent School Corporation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hillsborough Beautification Foundation | $250 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($275k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Renard 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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Renard Family Foundation
- How much does Renard Family Foundation give?
- Renard Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $45,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Renard Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (66%), Arts & Culture (21%), Health (6%).
- Who are Renard Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: San Francisco Opera Association ($65k), San Francisco Symphony ($28k), San Francisco Conservatory of Music ($6k).
- Does Renard Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Renard 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 Renard Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Renard Family Foundation based?
- Renard Family Foundation is based in CT.
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