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The Rice 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $131k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $846k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+2 grants · $700k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $400,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $300,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $150,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $150,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $105,000 |
| MET MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW | $100,000 |
| BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $100,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $100,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD - HUDSON PECONIC | $100,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| WNET13 | $80,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
93 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $423k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +40%
THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +69%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +39%
Funded once
- YCYALE COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2023 · $100k
- NMNATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORYone grant, 2023 · $100k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITY - RICE URBAN FELLOWSHIP FUNDone grant, 2023 · $75k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Queens library transforms lives by cultivating personal and intellectual growth and by building strong communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 126 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds FCNL EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC ↗
- Who funds The Hastings Center Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREYSTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Ibm International Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Kohlberg Foundation Inc · Mbia Foundation · Peckham Family Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Yvonne & Leslie Pollack Family Foundation Inc · Elkes Foundation III · Marty and Dorothy Silverman Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · The Ford Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Rice Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- From the Top Inc — 6% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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