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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.

$70k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$521k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Rice Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalCrime & LegalEmploymentHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$70k67%
FY20244$34k25%
FY20238$163k25%
FY20227$95k43%
FY20217$99k43%
FY202015$239k53%
FY201910$54k50%
FY201810$202k70%
91% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$346kPhilanthropy$200kEducation$92kCrime & Legal$72kInternational$44kEmployment$38kCivil Rights$26kHealth$21kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
NY
IA
CA
VA
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($213k), 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.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Parks Conservation Association: $297,565 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNorthside Achievement Zone: $71,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Foolproof Foundation Inc: $38,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetAlight: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWild Rivers Conservancy of the St Croix & Namekagon: $16,050 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMinnesota Zoo Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChristian Cupboard Emergency Food Shelf Dba Open Cupboard: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew York Women in Film & Television Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetValley Outreach: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCamp Manito-Wish YMCA Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Mississippi River: $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVinland National Center: $5,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThree Rivers Park District Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWorld Without Genocide Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSuitup Incorporated: $1,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamilymeans: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFraser: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWisconsin Chamber Orchestra Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL20.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Sit Investment Associates Foundation · Allina Health System · Hardenbergh Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide 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.

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About Rice Family Foundation

How much does Rice Family Foundation give?
Rice Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $69,998 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Rice Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (36%), Philanthropy (21%), Education (9%).
Who are Rice Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Parks Conservation Association ($298k), Hill-Murray Foundation ($200k), Northside Achievement Zone ($72k).
Does Rice Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% 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 Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.
Where is Rice Family Foundation based?
Rice Family Foundation is based in MN.

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 43 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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