Illinois · Private foundation
Rita B Keefe Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $733k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $110,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 21
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $125k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Rita B Keefe Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k 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 | 29 | $693k | 55% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $693k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $436k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $523k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $490k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soulard Education Center | $510,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Catholic Urban Programs Nfp | $502,200 | 4 | 11% |
| Gateway Region Young Men's Christian Association | $410,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Giddo Simon Ministries | $130,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Benja Project | $80,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Rite Plan Initiative Corporation | $75,000 | 1 | 46% |
| Jackie Joyner Kersee Foundation | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Marfan Foundation Inc | $74,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Land of Lincoln Legal Aid Inc | $63,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Join Hands Esl | $52,000 | 2 | 3% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soulard Education Center | $510,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Catholic Urban Programs Nfp | $502,200 | 4 | 11% |
| Gateway Region Young Men's Christian Association | $410,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Giddo Simon Ministries | $130,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Benja Project | $80,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Rite Plan Initiative Corporation | $75,000 | 1 | 46% |
| Jackie Joyner Kersee Foundation | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Marfan Foundation Inc | $74,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Land of Lincoln Legal Aid Inc | $63,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Join Hands Esl | $52,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Vincent Gray Academy | $50,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mike Kelley Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Schindler Family Foundation | $3,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of Honduras USA | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Berea College | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ron Ortyl Memorial Fund | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Community Opportunities Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Casa of Southwestern Illinois | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($789k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rita B Keefe Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 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.
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How this is measured
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About Rita B Keefe Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does Rita B Keefe Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- Rita B Keefe Charitable Foundation Inc reported 30 grants totaling $732,950 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 21 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Rita B Keefe Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (41%), Education (23%), Health (8%).
- Who are Rita B Keefe Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Soulard Education Center ($510k), Catholic Urban Programs Nfp ($502k), Gateway Region Young Men's Christian Association ($410k).
- Does Rita B Keefe Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rita B Keefe Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rita B Keefe Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater St Louis Inc, St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Commerce Bancshares Foundation.
- Where is Rita B Keefe Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- Rita B Keefe Charitable Foundation Inc is based in IL.
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