California · Private foundation
Robert & Karen Rishwain 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.
- $83k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $273k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Robert & Karen Rishwain Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 78% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 | 6 | $83k | 83% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $45k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $58k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $81k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $28k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $179k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $131k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $460k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eisenhower Medical Center | $171,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Americans for Prosperity | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ready to Work | $50,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Rancho Mirage Writers Festival | $50,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Mama's House Ministries Fka Heartbeat at 22 | $26,000 | 2 | 1% |
| St Mary's High School | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Stockton Shelter For The Homeless | $14,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Living Desert The | $13,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Joaquin Partnership Inc | $10,100 | 2 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eisenhower Medical Center | $171,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Americans for Prosperity | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ready to Work | $50,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Rancho Mirage Writers Festival | $50,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Mama's House Ministries Fka Heartbeat at 22 | $26,000 | 2 | 1% |
| St Mary's High School | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Stockton Shelter For The Homeless | $14,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Living Desert The | $13,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Joaquin Partnership Inc | $10,100 | 2 | 1% |
| Palm Springs Symphony | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| A Tavola Together Foundation | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Rotts of Friends Animal Rescue | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Golden State Golf Tour Association | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Joseph's Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($480k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert & Karen Rishwain 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.
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How this is measured
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About Robert & Karen Rishwain Family Foundation
- How much does Robert & Karen Rishwain Family Foundation give?
- Robert & Karen Rishwain Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $82,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Robert & Karen Rishwain Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Health (18%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are Robert & Karen Rishwain Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Eisenhower Medical Center ($172k), Americans for Prosperity ($100k), President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College ($100k).
- Does Robert & Karen Rishwain Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert & Karen Rishwain 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 Robert & Karen Rishwain Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cortopassi Family Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Robert & Karen Rishwain Family Foundation based?
- Robert & Karen Rishwain Family Foundation is based in CA.
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