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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.

$499k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.2MHealth$509kInternational$483kYouth Development$183kPhilanthropy$150kEmployment$18kCivil Rights$10kReligion$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $417k
$55,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RABUN GAP-NACOOCHEE SCHOOL$100,000
HENRY W GRADY HEALTH FDN$97,596
CAMBODIAN CHILDREN'S FUND$90,000
Individual grant recipient$74,000
LAKEVIEW ACADEMY$55,000
CARE$25,000
USHER'S NEW LOOK$25,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA$25,000
CARA COLLECTIVE$7,500
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%USHER'S NEW LOOK: $50k → 13%USHER'S NEW LOOK: $40k → 13%USHER'S NEW LOOK: $25k → 13%USHER'S NEW LOOK: $25k → 13%USHER'S NEW LOOK: $25k → 13%USHER'S NEW LOOK: $18k → 13%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 10 repeat orgs$375k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$3.2M
$275k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+54%

Still filing today

70%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • CC
    Cambodian Childrens Fund
    6× · 2020–2025 · $413k · revenue +30%
  • COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +37%
  • PARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • CA
    CWC ALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +418% · 40% of their budget
  • GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue +45%
  • PF
    Purposity Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -49%
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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
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
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
5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
10
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
11
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
12
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Nuci Phillips Memorial Foundation Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EMORY UNIVERSITY: $1,733,333 · OtherEMORY UNIVERSITYHENRY W GRADY HEALTH FDN: $363,521 · OtherHENRY W GRADY HEALTH FDNIndividual grant recipient: $124,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+1 more: $5,000 · OtherCambodian Childrens Fund: $413,450 · PhilanthropyCambodian Childre…UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GRE…Purposity Foundation Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyPurposity Foundat…GAINESVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC AKA LAKEVIEW ACADEMY: $205,000 · EducationGAINESVILLE I…Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $100,000 · EducationRabun Gap-Nac…GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · EducationGEORGIA TECH …Emory University: $25,000 · EducationEmory Univers…+1 more: $10,000 · EducationUSHER'S NEW LOOK INC: $182,800 · Human ServicesCWC ALLIANCE INC: $100,000 · HealthPARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION: $40,000 · HealthTHE NUCI PHILLIPS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $70,000 · InternationalThe Cara Program: $17,500 · EmploymentAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Other$2,225,854Philanthropy$563,450Education$420,000Human Services$182,800Health$145,000International$70,000Employment$17,500Civil Rights$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCambodian Childrens Fund: $413,450 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetGAINESVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC AKA LAKEVIEW ACADEMY: $205,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUSHER'S NEW LOOK INC: $182,800 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCWC ALLIANCE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetRabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPurposity Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEmory University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cara Program: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NUCI PHILLIPS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Rice Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rice Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 19 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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