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Rich Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$103k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
29
Grants FY2026
37
Organizations funded FY2025
51%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2026
$30,500
Organizations funded a year
23 to 37
FY2021 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
4
Total assets, FY2026
$701k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 51% of the organizations Rich Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHealthCrime & LegalOther
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
FY2026still arriving29$103k17%
FY202537$129k51%
FY202432$105k34%
FY202332$82k66%
FY202224$81k67%
FY202123$110kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Youth Development$88kRecreation & Sports$72kArts & Culture$55kEducation$48kPhilanthropy$48kHealth$42kPublic Benefit$37kHuman Services$33kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CT
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Rich Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mill River Collaborative Inc$56,50060%
Avon Theatre Film Center Inc$55,35060%
Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc$50,00012%
The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc$42,50030%
Boys & Girls Club of Pbc$32,50040%
State Street Debating Society ltd$30,60037%
Stamford Center for the Arts Inc$18,40060%
Stamford Chamber of Commerce Inc$14,09541%
Friends of Silversource Inc$12,00011%
Women's Business Development Council Inc$11,50020%
Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Soundwaters Inc$10,00020%
Fresh Air Fund$8,70020%
The Ferguson Library$7,00060%
Person to Person Inc$5,00010%
Yale University$4,5002n/a
The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc$4,00020%
Stamford Veterans Park Partnership Inc$3,75024%
Malta House Inc$3,50030%
Future 5 Inc$3,00020%
Partnership for Public Service Inc$2,50010%
Pacific House Inc$2,50020%
The Winifred Masterson Burke Rehabilitation Hospital$2,50020%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$1,50020%
Mianus River Gorge Inc$1,00010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$1,00010%
Tarzia Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc$1,00010%
Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County Inc$1,00010%
Pivot Ministries Inc$1,00010%
Samaritan's Purse$1,0001n/a
Greenwich Adult Day Care Inc$1,00010%
Stamford Land Conservation Trust Inc$1,00010%
Norwalk Seaport Association Inc$1,00010%
Cardinal Kung Academy Inc$7501n/a
Project Music Inc$5001n/a
Artists Association of Nantucket Inc$5001n/a
Holocaust Museum Houston$50010%
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States$44520%
Greater Norwalk Chamber of Commerce Inc$41310%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($204k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rich Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMill River Collaborative Inc: $56,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAvon Theatre Film Center Inc: $55,350 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $42,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Pbc: $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetState Street Debating Society ltd: $30,600 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetStamford Center for the Arts Inc: $18,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetStamford Chamber of Commerce Inc: $14,095 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFriends of Silversource Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWomen's Business Development Council Inc: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSoundwaters Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFresh Air Fund: $8,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ferguson Library: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPerson to Person Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStamford Veterans Park Partnership Inc: $3,750 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetMalta House Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFuture 5 Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPartnership for Public Service Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific House Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Winifred Masterson Burke Rehabilitation Hospital: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMianus River Gorge Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStamford Museum & Nature Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Learning Centers of Fairfield County Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPivot Ministries Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreenwich Adult Day Care Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStamford Land Conservation Trust Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorwalk Seaport Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHolocaust Museum Houston: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States: $445 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Norwalk Chamber of Commerce Inc: $413 over 1y, 0.1% 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 34.

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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.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT33.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Simmons Family Foundation Inc · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · Boehm Family Foundation · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Selkowitz Family Foundation · Leon N Lapine Residuary Trust · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · Synchrony 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 Rich Foundation Inc

How much does Rich Foundation Inc give?
Rich Foundation Inc reported 29 grants totaling $102,500 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 37 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
What does Rich Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Youth Development (17%), Recreation & Sports (14%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are Rich Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Mill River Collaborative Inc ($57k), Avon Theatre Film Center Inc ($55k), Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc ($50k).
Does Rich Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 51% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rich Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rich Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Simmons Family Foundation Inc, Stamford Rotary Trust Fund.
Where is Rich Foundation Inc based?
Rich Foundation Inc is based in CT.

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 96 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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