Maryland · Private foundation
RFI Foundation Inc
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.
- $237k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 69%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 69% of the organizations RFI Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k 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 | 12 | $237k | 58% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $251k | 69% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $141k | 70% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $38k | 86% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $55k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $87k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $86k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $197k | 68% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Jewish Committee | $214,045 | 3 | 0% |
| Ron Brown Scholar Fund | $175,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc | $40,500 | 6 | 0% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Teach for America Inc | $31,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Trevor Project Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Israel Education Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Montgomery College Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Coalition for a Safer Web | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($295k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget RFI Foundation Inc 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: The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · The Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation · The Gary & Carol Berman Family Foundation Inc · Jack Kent Cooke Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales Foundation · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · Robert I Schattner Foundation Inc aka Schattner Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation
How this is measured
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About RFI Foundation Inc
- How much does RFI Foundation Inc give?
- RFI Foundation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $237,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does RFI Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Civil Rights (20%), Religion (10%).
- Who are RFI Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Jewish Committee ($214k), Ron Brown Scholar Fund ($175k), Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ($50k).
- Does RFI Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does RFI Foundation Inc 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 RFI Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc, The Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation, The Gary & Carol Berman Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is RFI Foundation Inc based?
- RFI Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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