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Rice-Cameron 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.

$589k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$406k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.2MArts & Culture$178kEmployment$100kFood & Nutrition$51kInternational$50kCommunity Improvement$20kPhilanthropy$9kReligion$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
  • $250k+1 grant · $406k
$22,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
READING PARTNERS$406,000
MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW$75,000
CONTINA IMPACT$50,000
MARET SCHOOL$22,000
FORDS THEATRE$20,000
WASATCH - EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION$12,120
FRIENDS OF COMPASS INC$2,500
LEARN AND SERVE FOUNDATION FOR ENGLISH LEARNING AND COMMUNITY SERVICE$1,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CONTINA IMPACT: $50k → 10%WASATCH - EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $12k → 14%MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW: $75k → 17%THE KENNEDY CENTER: $15k → 14%THE ARIEL FOUNDATION: $9k → 12%MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW: $25k → 8%WASATCH - EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%UNICEF USA: $50k → 17%THE KENNEDY CENTER: $10k → 14%BLACK STUDENT FUND: $3k → 14%THE KENNEDY CENTER: $10k → 14%NATIONAL CATHEDRAL SCHOOL: $22k → 14%NATIONAL CATHEDRAL SCHOOL: $12k → 14%NATIONAL CATHEDRAL SCHOOL: $10k → 14%NATIONAL CATHEDRAL SCHOOL: $10k → 14%ST DAVID'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $7k → 14%FORDS THEATRE: $25k → 14%FORDS THEATRE: $20k → 14%FORDS THEATRE: $20k → 14%FORDS THEATRE: $20k → 14%FORDS THEATRE: $15k → 14%FORDS THEATRE: $15k → 14%FORDS THEATRE: $10k → 14%READING PARTNERS: $406k → 14%READING PARTNERS: $150k → 14%FRIENDS OF COMPASS INC: $5k → 14%READING PARTNERS: $110k → 14%FRIENDS OF COMPASS INC: $3k → 14%READING PARTNERS: $65k → 14%FRIENDS OF COMPASS INC: $3k → 14%READING PARTNERS: $60k → 14%THE ELLINGTON FUND: $8k → 14%FRIENDS OF COMPASS INC: $3k → 14%READING PARTNERS: $59k → 14%THE ELLINGTON FUND: $6k → 14%READING PARTNERS: $55k → 14%THE ELLINGTON FUND: $5k → 14%READING PARTNERS: $40k → 14%THE ELLINGTON FUND: $5k → 14%MARET SCHOOL: $260k → 14%MARET SCHOOL: $255k → 14%MARET SCHOOL: $174k → 14%MARET SCHOOL: $120k → 14%MARET SCHOOL: $70k → 14%MARET SCHOOL: $57k → 14%MARET SCHOOL: $52k → 14%MARET SCHOOL: $34k → 14%MARET SCHOOL: $22k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 11 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
10

Total granted

$2.4M
$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+6%

Still filing today

64%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MS
    MARET SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +33%
  • RP
    READING PARTNERS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $945k · revenue +1%
  • FT
    FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +16%
  • FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +6%
  • TA
    THE ARIEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue -67%
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.

1
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
2
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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3
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education
6
Lowell School

Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…

Education
7
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
8
Bullis School

Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…

Education
9
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
10
Boston Architectural College

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

—
11
The Seed Public Charter School of Washington Dc

The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…

Education
12
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha's Table Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Ariel Foundation. 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

17 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. 17 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARET SCHOOL INC: $1,044,500 · EducationMARET SCHOOL INCREADING PARTNERS: $944,926 · EducationREADING PARTNERSMANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW: $100,000 · Education+4 more: $82,890 · EducationPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D OF C: $53,500 · OtherTHE KENNEDY CENTER: $35,000 · OtherTHE ELLINGTON FUND: $23,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF COMPASS INC: $20,400 · OtherWASATCH - EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $18,120 · OtherST DAVID'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $8,167 · Other+4 more: $6,059 · OtherFORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY: $125,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $50,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARIEL FOUNDATION: $8,647 · PhilanthropyHORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $6,200 · Youth DevelopmentKEEN GREATER DC LLC: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$2,172,316Other$164,746Arts & Culture$125,000International$50,000Human Services$50,000Philanthropy$8,647Youth Development$7,200Food & Nutrition$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARET SCHOOL INC: $1,044,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $944,926 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetFORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY: $125,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELLINGTON FUND: $23,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF COMPASS INC: $20,400 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ARIEL FOUNDATION: $8,647 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $6,200 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $1,890 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEFY VENTURES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEEN GREATER DC LLC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

  • Who funds MARET SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds CONTINA IMPACT ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE ELLINGTON FUND ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF COMPASS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARIEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACK STUDENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DEFY VENTURES INC ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds KEEN GREATER DC LLC ↗

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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Zients Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Rice-Cameron Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rice-Cameron Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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