· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $139k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $551k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MADISON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF PETOSKEY | $40,000 |
| MINNEHAHA ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF MINNESOTA - NORTHERN DIVISION | $30,000 |
| ASU FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SALEM COVENANT CHURCH | $20,000 |
| MC LAX ASSOCIATION - WOLFPACK LACROSSE | $20,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $20,000 |
| ELEPHANT VOICES | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND CLINICS OF MINNESOTA | $20,000 |
| NORTHMEN DEN YOUTH PANTRIES INC | $18,000 |
| ST PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $18,000 |
| NATIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| TWIN CITIES OPERA GUILD | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
133 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2025, 68 since wound down; 5 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MAMINNEHAHA ACADEMY5× · 2021–2025 · $180k · revenue +9%
- TSThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society9× · 2017–2025 · $168k · revenue +16%
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE7× · 2017–2025 · $146k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- FCFLINT CREEK WILDLIFE REHABILITATIONone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +12%
- MGMIDDLETON GATOR SWIM & DIVE TEAMone grant, 2022 · $20k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
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.
Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
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.
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
96 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 96 of the 164 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds MINNEHAHA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MADISON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BARRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Twin Cities Opera Guild ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON AREA COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds PEO Foundation ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Calvin Christian School of Minneapolis ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KITSAP COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SPARE KEY ↗
- Who funds AMERICA SHARE USA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds ELEPHANTVOICES ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds Earthcorps ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Judd S Alexander Foundation · One Call for All · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · Run Wild Missoula Inc · Clovis Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Rice Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.