California · Private foundation
Rice 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.
- $447k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,850
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 39
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Rice Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 35 | $437k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $358k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $377k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $386k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $365k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $300k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reuben H Fleet Science Center | $180,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Zoological Society of San Diego | $160,400 | 6 | 0% |
| San Diego Society of Natural History | $160,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Monarch School Project | $116,690 | 6 | 0% |
| Ocean Discovery Institute | $95,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The New Childrens Museum | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Classics4kids | $72,967 | 6 | n/a |
| Artsbusxpress | $72,500 | 6 | 20% |
| Quail Botanical Gardens Foundation | $64,896 | 6 | 0% |
| Elementary Institute of Science | $60,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($701k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rice 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: The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Thomas C Ackerman Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd
How this is measured
About Rice Family Foundation
- How much does Rice Family Foundation give?
- Rice Family Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $446,987 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Rice Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Arts & Culture (23%), Science & Tech (12%).
- Who are Rice Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Reuben H Fleet Science Center ($180k), Zoological Society of San Diego ($160k), San Diego Society of Natural History ($160k).
- Does Rice Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rice 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 Rice Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Conrad Prebys Foundation, The San Diego Foundation, Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation.
- Where is Rice Family Foundation based?
- Rice Family Foundation is based in CA.
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