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Rice Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
59
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$600k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$6.2MEnvironment$4.6MEducation$3.9MArts & Culture$3.3MAnimals$2.3MHuman Services$2.2MYouth Development$1.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$580kOther$0
02FY2024 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $665k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$67M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$600,000
Gigi's Playhouse$500,000
Marine Military Academy$350,000
Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation$250,000
Chicago Botanic Garden$177,500
Operation North Pole$150,000
Illinois Conservation Foundation$130,000
North Shore Center the Performing A$130,000
Ducks Unlimited Inc$125,000
By the Hand Club for KidsFormerly K$100,000
The Nature Conservancy in Illinois$100,000
Morton Arboretum$100,000
Mobile Care Chicago$100,000
Lincoln Park Zoo$100,000
Medicine Fish$100,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Equestrian Connection: $20k → 8%Equestrian Connection: $70k → 8%Equestrian Connection: $67k → 8%Equestrian Connection: $50k → 8%Equestrian Connection: $50k → 8%Equestrian Connection: $50k → 8%Equestrian Connection: $34k → 8%Fill a Heart 4 Kids: $15k → 8%Madonna Mission: $50k → 14%Madonna Mission: $40k → 14%Madonna Mission: $40k → 14%Rainbows for All Children: $25k → 14%Rainbows for All Children: $25k → 14%Night Ministry: $20k → 14%Night Ministry: $15k → 14%Night Ministry: $10k → 14%Crisis Center for South Suburbia: $10k → 14%Crisis Center for South Suburbia: $10k → 14%Crisis Center for South Suburbia: $10k → 14%Crisis Center for South Suburbia: $10k → 14%Crisis Center for South Suburbia: $10k → 14%Center of Concern: $10k → 14%Center of Concern: $10k → 14%Center of Concern: $10k → 14%Misericordia Heart of Mercy Center: $250k → 14%Orchard Village: $10k → 14%Orchard Village: $10k → 14%Chicago Lighthouse The: $25k → 14%Orchard Village: $10k → 14%Orchard Village: $10k → 14%Orchard Village: $10k → 14%McGaw YMCA: $25k → 14%McGaw YMCA: $25k → 14%McGaw YMCA: $25k → 14%McGaw YMCA: $25k → 14%McGaw YMCA: $25k → 14%McGaw YMCA: $15k → 14%McGaw YMCA: $15k → 14%Operation North Pole: $150k → 14%Operation North Pole: $105k → 14%Operation North Pole: $100k → 14%Night Ministry: $15k → 14%Operation North Pole: $80k → 14%Night Ministry: $15k → 14%Operation North Pole: $80k → 14%Operation North Pole: $80k → 14%Operation North Pole: $80k → 14%Operation North Pole: $45k → 14%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.
$27M · 111 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

111 repeat relationships: 53 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

111
35

Total granted

$27M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+31%

Still filing today

59%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • CH
    CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +37%
  • GV
    GLEN VIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +99% · 66% of their budget
  • MM
    MARINE MILITARY ACADEMY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • FM
    FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +22%
  • RI
    Rehabilitation Institute of Chicagograduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +31%
  • MH
    MISERICORDIA HOMEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +33%
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
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
2
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
3
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
4
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago

Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.

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5
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
6
Executive Service Corps of Chicago

Executive Service Corps is the premier nonprofit consultancy that engages highly skilled professionals who use their experience and expertise to provide nonprofits with the consulting services they need to be successful. Our vision is to…

Community Improvement
7
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center

The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.

Crime & Legal
8
Chicago Youth Centers

To provide high-quality early learning and out-of-school time enrichment in under-resourced neighborhoods to holistically support children of all ages, their families, and their communities.

Youth Development
9
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
10
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
11
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
12
Community Counseling Centers of Chicago Inc

To Provide counseling, crisis intervention, case management, psychosocial rehabilitative and vocational services to mentally ill and substance abuse clients in outpatient and community based settings.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Driven Foundation. 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

92 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 92 of the 153 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/92
Grantees still filing
74/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $3,850,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGigi's Playhouse: $775,000 · OtherGigi's PlayhouseNorthShore Univer Health System Fnd: $750,000 · OtherRush Univ Medical Center Office of: $700,000 · OtherNorthShore Univer HealthSystem Foun: $585,000 · OtherNorth Shore Center the Performing A: $562,000 · OtherDucks Unlimited Inc: $560,000 · OtherMobile Care Chicago: $500,000 · Other+87 more: $6,042,400 · Other+87 moreCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $3,162,500 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HORTICU…Illinois Conservation Foundation: $640,000 · EnvironmentIllinois Conser…THE MORTON ARBORETUM: $375,000 · EnvironmentTHE MORTON ARBO…+1 more: $30,000 · EnvironmentGLEN VIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,788,000 · EducationGLEN VIEW CLUB …MARINE MILITARY ACADEMY INC: $1,735,000 · EducationMARINE MILITARY…Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers: $140,000 · Education+8 more: $296,500 · Education+8 moreRush University Medical Center: $1,600,000 · HealthRush Unive…Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $1,000,000 · HealthRehabilita…+8 more: $197,500 · Health+8 moreOperation North Pole Inc: $720,000 · Human ServicesEquestrian Connection NFP: $341,000 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA HOME: $250,000 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc: $155,000 · Human ServicesMadonna Mission: $130,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $75,000 · Human Services+12 more: $363,000 · Human ServicesFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureKOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureFacets Film Forum: $52,500 · Arts & CultureSNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $75,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $400,000 · AnimalsPAWS CHICAGO: $222,700 · AnimalsChicago Zoological Society: $200,000 · AnimalsTOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL: $198,300 · AnimalsDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $175,000 · Animals+2 more: $46,000 · Animals
Other$14,324,400Environment$4,207,500Education$3,959,500Health$2,797,500Human Services$2,034,000Arts & Culture$1,302,500Animals$1,242,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $3,162,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetGLEN VIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,788,000 over 7y, 66% of budgetMARINE MILITARY ACADEMY INC: $1,735,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $1,600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOperation North Pole Inc: $720,000 over 8y, 79% of budgetIllinois Conservation Foundation: $640,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetMax McGraw Wildlife Foundation: $475,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $400,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MORTON ARBORETUM: $375,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEquestrian Connection NFP: $341,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetHOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $222,700 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE: $205,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetChicago Zoological Society: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL: $198,300 over 8y, 10% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $180,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $175,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $170,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc: $155,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC: $153,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMidtown-Metro Achievement Centers: $140,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetMadonna Mission: $130,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetKOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $125,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMAINE-NILES ASSOCIATION OF SPECIAL RECREATION: $115,700 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetWILLOW HOUSE: $115,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetMEDICINE FISH CORP: $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $75,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS: $75,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCAREER TRANSITIONS CENTER OF CHICAGO: $75,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER NORTH SUBURBAN CHICAGO: $72,500 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE THERAPY CORPS INC: $64,500 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetCrisis Center for South Suburbia: $63,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetORCHARD VILLAGE: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKids Above All Illinois: $59,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFacets Film Forum: $52,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetRAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC: $50,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetTHE DRIVEN FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetTHE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS: $45,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER OF CONCERN: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GLEN VIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARINE MILITARY ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Operation North Pole Inc ↗
  • Who funds Illinois Conservation Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
  • Who funds Equestrian Connection NFP ↗
  • Who funds HOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
  • Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
  • Who funds TOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds Young Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC ↗
  • Who funds Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers ↗

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.

George M Eisenberg Fo…The Chicago Community…Helen V Brach Foundat…Dr Scholl FoundationAbbVie FoundationJohn D and Catherine …The a Montgomery Ward…WP & HB White Foundat…United Way of Metropo…The Service Club of C…Evanston Community Fo…Edmond and Alice Ople…
George M Eisenberg Foundation for CharitiesIL48.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · The Chicago Community Trust · Helen V Brach Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Service Club of Chicago · Evanston Community Foundation · Edmond and Alice Opler 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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rice Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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

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    How do I get to Rice Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rice 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 153 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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