Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Raf Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $200k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
75% of The Raf Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Greater Philadelphia, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 1
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations The Raf Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | 1 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $50k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $67k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $67k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $200k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Pennsylvania Ballet Association | $200,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Philadelphia Inc | $184,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Young Scholars Charter School | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
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About The Raf Foundation
- How much does The Raf Foundation give?
- The Raf Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $200,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Raf Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (64%), Arts & Culture (17%), Youth Development (15%).
- Who are The Raf Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Pennsylvania Ballet Association ($200k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Philadelphia Inc ($184k), Young Scholars Charter School ($50k).
- Does The Raf Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Raf Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is The Raf Foundation based?
- The Raf Foundation is based in PA.
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