· Private foundation
Rita Allen Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $705k
- $50k–250k53 grants · $4.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MULTIPLIER | $200,000 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY (WM) | $190,000 |
| RESEARCHAMERICA | $175,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $110,000 |
| HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL | $110,000 |
| RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $110,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $110,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO | $110,000 |
| THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $110,000 |
| ROCKEDU SCIENCE OUTREACH AT THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY | $105,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $100,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY (PRIMARY) | $100,000 |
| HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of Rita Allen Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
127 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2024, 82 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RRESEARCHAMERICA6× · 2019–2024 · $995k · revenue +130%
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE6× · 2019–2024 · $787k · revenue +11%
WGBH Educational Foundation3× · 2019–2021 · $575k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- USUT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2019 · $220k
- SPSCIENCE PHILANTHROPY ALLIANCE (NEW VENTURE FUND FA)one grant, 2019 · $175k
- RFRESEARCH FOUNDATION CUNYone grant, 2023 · $120k
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.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
185 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 185 of the 299 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RESEARCHAMERICA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds MEDIA IMPACT FUNDERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FULBRIGHT US-UK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CIENCIA PUERTO RICO INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE COMMUNICATION LAB INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE PROOF INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
- Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK INC ↗
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: Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Heising-Simons Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Kavli Foundation · Democracy Fund Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The William Penn Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rita Allen Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rita Allen Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Trenton Health Team Inc: 31% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- D&r Greenway Land Trust Inc: 9% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- People and Stories Gente Y Cuentos: 7% of income from government
- United States Association for the Study of Pain Inc: 5% of income from government
- Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc: 4% of income from government
- Arm in Arm Inc: 4% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc: 3% of income from government
- American Physical Society: 1% of income from government
- The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc: 0% of income from government
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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