Connecticut · Private foundation
Riley 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.
- $104k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Riley Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $104k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $67k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $36k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $37k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $46k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $56k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $14k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $20k | 78% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Person to Person Inc | $110,623 | 5 | 0% |
| Darien Library Inc | $83,275 | 4 | 1% |
| Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc | $41,950 | 6 | 1% |
| Horizons at CT State Norwalk Inc | $24,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Carver Inc | $23,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Darien EMS Post 53 Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Darien Arts Center Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Good Causes Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Pacific House Inc | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Person to Person Inc | $110,623 | 5 | 0% |
| Darien Library Inc | $83,275 | 4 | 1% |
| Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc | $41,950 | 6 | 1% |
| Horizons at CT State Norwalk Inc | $24,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Carver Inc | $23,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Darien EMS Post 53 Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Darien Arts Center Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Good Causes Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Pacific House Inc | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| A Woman's Nation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Land Trust of Darien Inc | $4,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Crystal Theatre Inc | $3,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Future 5 Inc | $3,500 | 2 | 0% |
| LiveGirl Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greens Ledge Light Preservation Society Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Community Fund of Darien | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Childrens Leukemia Research Assn Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Darien Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Streetsquash Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stratton Family Fund Limited | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Shakespeare on the Sound Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Riley Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation · Clarion Capital Charitable Foundation · The Goodnow Fund · Synchrony Foundation · The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Robert & Diana Borman Family Charitable Foundation · Schaefer-Phillips Foundation Inc · Alexandra Foundation
How this is measured
About Riley Family Foundation
- How much does Riley Family Foundation give?
- Riley Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $104,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Riley Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Philanthropy (29%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Riley Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Person to Person Inc ($111k), Darien Library Inc ($83k), Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc ($42k).
- Does Riley Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Riley 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 Riley Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation, Clarion Capital Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Riley Family Foundation based?
- Riley Family Foundation is based in CT.
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