Rhode Island · Private foundation
Ress 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.
- $114k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $79,860
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 66
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Ress Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | $114k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $104k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $114k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 64 | $90k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 66 | $104k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 65 | $90k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $98k | 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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sea Turtle Conservancy | $21,000 | 6 | 0% |
| New England Aquarium Corporation | $16,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Collaborative Services | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Yiddish Book Center Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rhode Island School of Design | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc | $9,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Conservation Law Foundation Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of St Andrews American Foundation Inc | $8,350 | 3 | 0% |
| Chewonki Foundation Inc | $5,750 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($460k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ress Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 Champlin Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Barr Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Gertrude N & Seebert J Goldowsky Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Pearle W & Martin M Silverstein Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Weisberg Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Ress Family Foundation
- How much does Ress Family Foundation give?
- Ress Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $113,760 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 66 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Ress Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (51%), Education (8%), Animals (6%).
- Who are Ress Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island ($75k), Sea Turtle Conservancy ($21k), New England Aquarium Corporation ($17k).
- Does Ress Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ress 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 Ress Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Champlin Foundation, Citizens Charitable Foundation, The Rhode Island Community Foundation.
- Where is Ress Family Foundation based?
- Ress Family Foundation is based in RI.
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