Delaware · Private foundation
Rickard Family 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.
- $279k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2024
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Rickard Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 20 | $279k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $434k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $242k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $254k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $254k | 5% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $168k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $140k | 18% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $91k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Falmouth Academy Inc | $240,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc | $200,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | $145,000 | 6 | 0% |
| National Disaster Search Dog Foundation | $140,000 | 8 | 0% |
| American Numismatic Association | $125,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Friends Academy Inc | $115,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Friends of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | $100,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Dunedin Cares Inc | $92,000 | 7 | 12% |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | $80,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc | $75,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Rickard Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Rickard Family Foundation
- How much does Rickard Family Foundation give?
- Rickard Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $279,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Rickard Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (29%), Health (21%), Animals (11%).
- Who are Rickard Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Falmouth Academy Inc ($240k), Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ($200k), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc ($145k).
- Does Rickard Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rickard 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 Rickard Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Cape Cod Foundation Inc, The US Charitable Gift Trust.
- Where is Rickard Family Foundation based?
- Rickard Family Foundation is based in DE.
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