New York · Private foundation
The Box of Rain 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.
- $132k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $109k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $827k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations The Box of Rain Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 11 | $109k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $109k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $123k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $119k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $114k | 29% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $111k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Westchester Hospital Center Foundation Inc | $300,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc | $61,420 | 6 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Northern Westchester | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of Karen Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Mount Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Community Center of Northern Westchester Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wake Forest University | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Off Center Dance Theatre Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 66% |
| Delivering Good Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Westchester Land Trust Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Westchester Hospital Center Foundation Inc | $300,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc | $61,420 | 6 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Northern Westchester | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of Karen Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Mount Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Community Center of Northern Westchester Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wake Forest University | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Off Center Dance Theatre Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 66% |
| Delivering Good Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Westchester Land Trust Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Rochester | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Pound Ridge | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($98k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Box of Rain Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 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: Pcsb Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Box of Rain Foundation
- How much does The Box of Rain Foundation give?
- The Box of Rain Foundation reported 11 itemized grants totaling $109,420, out of $131,920 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Box of Rain Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (40%), Health (24%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are The Box of Rain Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northern Westchester Hospital Center Foundation Inc ($300k), The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc ($61k), Boys & Girls Club of Northern Westchester ($60k).
- Does The Box of Rain Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Box of Rain 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 The Box of Rain Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pcsb Community Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is The Box of Rain Foundation based?
- The Box of Rain Foundation is based in NY.
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