California · Private foundation
The Ressler Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $211k
- Granted FY2021
- 8
- Grants FY2021
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2021
Read this first · the figures below need context
77% of The Ressler Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Brown University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 20 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Ressler Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $211k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2021
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 52
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 3
- Total assets, FY2021
- $43M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 75% of the organizations The Ressler Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 91% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 8 | $211k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $2.2M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 52 | $2.4M | 69% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $2.6M | 53% |
| FY2017 | 33 | $3.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard-Westlake School | $2,403,432 | 7 | 1% |
| Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation | $674,579 | 1 | 6% |
| Melanoma Research Foundation | $321,724 | 1 | 6% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $261,666 | 3 | 0% |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation | $250,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Bail Project Inc | $215,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Baby2baby | $210,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Center for Art Research and Alliances Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 77% |
| Indiaspora | $150,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Wilshire Boulevard Temple | $149,881 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 101 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ressler Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 92 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The California Wellness Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Liberty Hill Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · California Changelawyers · The Karsh Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Ressler Family Foundation
- How much does The Ressler Family Foundation give?
- The Ressler Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $211,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 52 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does The Ressler Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (86%), Health (6%), Crime & Legal (1%).
- Who are The Ressler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Harvard-Westlake School ($2.4M), Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation ($675k), Melanoma Research Foundation ($322k).
- Does The Ressler Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ressler 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 The Ressler Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Conrad N Hilton Foundation.
- Where is The Ressler Family Foundation based?
- The Ressler Family Foundation is based in CA.
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