Delaware · Private foundation
Rivendell Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $279k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Rivendell Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 | 25 | $279k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $183k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $164k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $202k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $181k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $172k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $157k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $205k | 13% |
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Trust for Public Land | $136,500 | 9 | 0% |
| San Miguel Resource Center (Smrc) | $133,160 | 7 | 4% |
| Vermont Works for Women Inc | $120,985 | 9 | 4% |
| The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis | $120,330 | 8 | 1% |
| Vermont Foodbank | $91,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Girls on the Run of Vermont Inc | $83,031 | 9 | 5% |
| Magicians Without Borders Inc | $82,140 | 6 | 24% |
| Haven | $75,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Crane Mountain Valley Horse Rescue Inc | $71,500 | 9 | 15% |
| Brigid Project Inc | $60,760 | 8 | 55% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($178k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rivendell Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 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: The Vermont Community Foundation · Agilent Technologies Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Cleveland H Dodge Foundation Inc · Adirondack Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Oakland Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Longwood Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
About Rivendell Foundation Inc
- How much does Rivendell Foundation Inc give?
- Rivendell Foundation Inc reported 25 grants totaling $278,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rivendell Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (31%), Recreation & Sports (11%), Health (10%).
- Who are Rivendell Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Trust for Public Land ($137k), San Miguel Resource Center (Smrc) ($133k), Vermont Works for Women Inc ($121k).
- Does Rivendell Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rivendell Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rivendell Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Agilent Technologies Foundation, National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Rivendell Foundation Inc based?
- Rivendell Foundation Inc is based in DE.
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