Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
The Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales 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.
- $132M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $122,714,163
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $53M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations The Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27M 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 | 13 | $132M | 31% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $37M | 41% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $13M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $14M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $9.2M | 41% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $7.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Mellon University | $124,734,951 | 2 | 5% |
| Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc | $25,000,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Success Academy Charter Schools Inc | $21,790,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Ruth & Norman Rales Jewish Family Services Inc | $12,460,811 | 6 | 15% |
| Montgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation Inc | $8,281,250 | 5 | 60% |
| Kipp Foundation | $6,000,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Ron Brown Scholar Fund | $4,457,500 | 6 | 34% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $2,525,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Kipp DC Public Charter Schools | $1,572,355 | 3 | 1% |
| DC Preparatory Academy | $715,193 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 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: Education Forward DC · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Citybridge Foundation · 50can Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · City Fund · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · RFI Foundation Inc · Bender Foundation Inc · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare The Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales Foundation with peer funders
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About The Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales Foundation
- How much does The Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales Foundation give?
- The Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $131,789,163 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (80%), Civil Rights (13%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are The Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Carnegie Mellon University ($125M), Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc ($25M), Success Academy Charter Schools Inc ($22M).
- Does The Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales 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 Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Education Forward DC, The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc, Greater Washington Community Foundation.
- Where is The Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales Foundation based?
- The Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales Foundation is based in DC.
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