Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Rittenhouse Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $65k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 53
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Rittenhouse Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 41 | $65k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $66k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $72k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $58k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 53 | $81k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $67k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 52 | $76k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 47 | $71k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harcum College | $38,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Temple Bethzion-Beth Israel | $31,225 | 8 | n/a |
| Har Zion Temple | $28,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Friends Central School Corporation | $25,000 | 4 | n/a |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $18,250 | 7 | 0% |
| The Library Company of Philadelphia | $15,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Franklin Institute | $14,900 | 8 | 0% |
| The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society | $14,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Mann Center for the Performing Arts | $12,700 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 79 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($142k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rittenhouse 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: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Connelly Foundation · Independence Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Neubauer Family Foundation · The Snider Foundation · The Leslie Miller and Richard Worley Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Future Standard Foundation
How this is measured
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About Rittenhouse Foundation
- How much does Rittenhouse Foundation give?
- Rittenhouse Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $64,775 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rittenhouse Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Arts & Culture (19%), Philanthropy (13%).
- Who are Rittenhouse Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Harcum College ($39k), Temple Bethzion-Beth Israel ($31k), Har Zion Temple ($28k).
- Does Rittenhouse Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rittenhouse Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rittenhouse Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc.
- Where is Rittenhouse Foundation based?
- Rittenhouse Foundation is based in PA.
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