· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $353k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cuyamaca Community College | $50,850 |
| Monarch School | $30,000 |
| San Diego Natural History Museum | $25,000 |
| Reuben H Fleet Science Center | $25,000 |
| The Zoological Society of San Diego | $25,000 |
| Ocean Discovery Institute | $20,000 |
| Reuben H Fleet Science Center | $20,000 |
| Classics 4 Kids | $16,980 |
| The Water Conservation Garden | $15,000 |
| The New Children's Museum | $15,000 |
| Words Alive | $15,000 |
| ArtsBusXpress | $15,000 |
| ArtReach | $10,500 |
| SD River Park Foundation | $10,160 |
| University of San Diego | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RHREUBEN H FLEET SCIENCE CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +25%
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO6× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +77%
- SDSAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY6× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- FAFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- FBFOREVER BALBOA PARKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +398%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -8%
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.
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.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.
Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
To deliver accessible world-class student experiences by providing quality programs and services that ensure student success through meaningful learning. to be an inclusive and innovative university serving life-long learners who…
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
To support the social, recreational, cultural and education programs and facilities, both on campus and in the community, and to advocate for student interests, provide leadership opportunities and participate in shared governance.
to advance regional contemporary art and artists while fostering cultural equity through access to meaningful art experiences
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 63 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 REUBEN H FLEET SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ARTSBUSXPRESS ↗
- Who funds QUAIL BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds Words Alive ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds ARTREACH ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE OF THE AMERICAS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NTC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Traveling Stories ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GUITARS IN THE CLASSROOM ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds FOREVER BALBOA PARK ↗
- Who funds Simon Youth Foundation Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rice Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rice Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
- Mount Saint Mary's University Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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