New York · Private foundation
Robert Rauschenberg 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.
- $4.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 134
- Grants FY2025
- 82
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $18,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $756,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 82
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 29
- Total assets, FY2025
- $524M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Robert Rauschenberg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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 | 114 | $4.5M | 64% |
| FY2024 | 82 | $4.5M | 56% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $2.0M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $3.3M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $4.9M | 53% |
| FY2020 | 58 | $1.9M | 62% |
| FY2019 | 51 | $991k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States Artists Inc | $1,250,000 | 2 | 9% |
| The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc | $1,065,000 | 5 | 14% |
| The Studio Museum in Harlem | $1,031,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Education Center | $435,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Colorado Plateau Foundation | $303,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Shelterwood Collective | $300,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Beta-Local Inc | $300,000 | 4 | 25% |
| Movement Research Inc | $300,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Moms 4 Housing Inc | $260,000 | 3 | 34% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 203 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 81 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 170 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Arison Arts Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Jerome Foundation Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Via Art Fund Inc · Mertz Gilmore Foundation
How this is measured
About Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
- How much does Robert Rauschenberg Foundation give?
- Robert Rauschenberg Foundation reported 134 grants totaling $4,670,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 82 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Robert Rauschenberg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (58%), Public Safety & Disaster (12%), Employment (5%).
- Who are Robert Rauschenberg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: United States Artists Inc ($1.3M), The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc ($1.1M), The Studio Museum in Harlem ($1.0M).
- Does Robert Rauschenberg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert Rauschenberg 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 Rauschenberg Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, The Ford Foundation.
- Where is Robert Rauschenberg Foundation based?
- Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is based in NY.
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