Delaware · Private foundation
The Rhimes 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.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 62%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $26,550
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 62% of the organizations The Rhimes Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 22 | $3.3M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $1.7M | 62% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $4.4M | 41% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $2.8M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $5.0M | 44% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $5.0M | 53% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $3.7M | 45% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $3.0M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $10,000,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Iama Theatre Company | $1,600,000 | 8 | 70% |
| Emmett Till Interpretive Center | $1,500,000 | 2 | 55% |
| Beyond 12 Education Inc | $1,100,000 | 7 | 5% |
| The Southport School Inc | $1,025,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Marlborough School | $925,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $500,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Debbie Allen Dance Inc Debbie Allen Dance Academy | $386,250 | 7 | 3% |
| Filling in the Blanks Inc | $380,699 | 2 | 7% |
| Greens Farms Academy Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Rhimes Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 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 James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · Howard & Katherine Aibel Foundation · Tides Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Rhimes Foundation
- How much does The Rhimes Foundation give?
- The Rhimes Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $3,328,674 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Rhimes Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Public Benefit (35%), Education (15%).
- Who are The Rhimes Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Barack Obama Foundation ($10M), Iama Theatre Company ($1.6M), Emmett Till Interpretive Center ($1.5M).
- Does The Rhimes Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Rhimes 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 Rhimes Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family Foundation, Newman's Own Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Rhimes Foundation based?
- The Rhimes Foundation is based in DE.
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