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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.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
101
Grants FY2024
92
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$400,000
Organizations funded a year
41 to 92
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
13
Total assets, FY2024
$62M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations The Rice Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving100$3.9M21%
FY202392$4.1M60%
FY202241$3.3M0%
FY202148$4.2M0%
FY202050$4.2Mn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$5.0MHealth$3.6MCivil Rights$3.6MEducation$2.2MInternational$1.5MEnvironment$781kPublic Benefit$620kSocial Science$450kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 82 grantees
All grantees of The Rice Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$2,000,00050%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$1,500,00051%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$1,250,00050%
American Museum of Natural History$1,240,00040%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$505,00050%
Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic Inc$500,00050%
Fcnl Education Fund$500,00024%
William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc$500,00050%
The Hastings Center Inc$450,00053%
Wnet$400,00050%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$400,00040%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$300,00030%
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc$270,00050%
Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation$245,00052%
New York University$230,00050%
Northern Westchester Hospital Center Foundation Inc$212,50051%
World Central Kitchen Inc$200,00020%
Radford University Foundation Inc$185,00031%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$170,50050%
Americares Foundation Inc$170,00030%
Greyston Foundation Inc$150,00041%
People for the American Way Foundation$145,00051%
Wildlife Conservation Society$145,00050%
Friends Committee on National Legislation$125,00023%
George Mason University Foundation Inc$125,00020%
Share Our Strength$110,00020%
Virginia Organizing Inc$100,00020%
Pro Publica Inc$100,00040%
Historic Hudson Valley$87,50050%
Westchester Land Trust Inc$81,00052%
Southern Coalition for Social Justice$75,00030%
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States$65,00020%
Earthjustice$60,00030%
Chess-In-The-Schools Inc$56,00041%
The Campaign School Inc$50,00027%
Emory & Henry University$50,00020%
From the Top Inc$47,50051%
Kunhardt Film Foundation Inc$40,00014%
The Wilderness Society$35,00020%
Frontier Nursing University Inc$35,00020%
Whitney Museum of American Art$33,75020%
Teatown Lake Reservation Inc$32,00050%
Cornerstones Inc$30,00020%
Mianus River Gorge Inc$30,00021%
Fairfax Library Foundation$30,00026%
Smithsonian Institution$30,00010%
Rutgers University Foundation$30,00020%
The Dollywood Foundation$25,00020%
The Jewish Museum$25,00020%
Feeding Westchester Inc$20,00020%
National Coalition Against Censorship Inc$20,00011%
Women's Resource Center of the New River Valley Inc$17,50020%
The Bristol Public Library Foundation$15,000218%
Thanks to Scandinavia Inc$12,00023%
Bedford Free Library$10,00021%
Facets Cares Inc$10,00010%
Bedford Hills Free Library$10,00021%
Mount Pleasant Public Library$10,00024%
Citymeals-On-Wheels$10,00020%
The Campaign Legal Center Inc$10,00010%
City Harvest Inc$10,00020%
Virginia League of Conservation Voters$10,00011%
Katonah Village Library$10,00020%
Human Rights Campaign Foundation$7,50010%
Equality Foundation of Ga Inc$7,00020%
North Castle Historical Society$6,75053%
The New Rochelle Public Library Foundation Inc$5,00012%
Virginia Public Access Project$5,00010%
Fairfax4horses Inc$5,0002n/a
Fort Greene Park Conservancy Inc$5,00020%
Athens Land Trust Inc$4,50020%
Ukrainian Museum$3,00010%
American Folk Art Museum$3,00010%
Clean Air Task Force Inc$3,00010%
Athens Area Homeless Shelter Inc$3,00010%
New Georgia Project Inc$3,00010%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$3,00010%
Brooklyn Public Library$2,50010%
New York Restoration Project$2,50010%
City Report Inc$2,50010%
Food Bank of Northeast Georgia Inc$2,50010%
Prospect Park Alliance Inc$2,50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Rice Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $2,000,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Reproductive Rights Inc: $1,500,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,240,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $505,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Hudson Peconic Inc: $500,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFcnl Education Fund: $500,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetWilliam J Brennan Center for Justice Inc: $500,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Hastings Center Inc: $450,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetWnet: $400,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCommittee to Protect Journalists Inc: $270,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMeserve-Kunhardt Foundation: $245,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetNew York University: $230,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Westchester Hospital Center Foundation Inc: $212,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRadford University Foundation Inc: $185,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $170,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $170,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreyston Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPeople for the American Way Foundation: $145,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $145,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends Committee on National Legislation: $125,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetGeorge Mason University Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetShare Our Strength: $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVirginia Organizing Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPro Publica Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHistoric Hudson Valley: $87,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc: $81,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSouthern Coalition for Social Justice: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNational Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEarthjustice: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChess-In-The-Schools Inc: $56,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThe Campaign School Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetEmory & Henry University: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFrom the Top Inc: $47,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetKunhardt Film Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetThe Wilderness Society: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFrontier Nursing University Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $33,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTeatown Lake Reservation Inc: $32,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCornerstones Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMianus River Gorge Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFairfax Library Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRutgers University Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Dollywood Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 81.

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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.

The New York Community TrustNY22.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Rice Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Rice Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Rice Family Foundation

How much does The Rice Family Foundation give?
The Rice Family Foundation reported 101 grants totaling $3,866,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 92 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Rice Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Health (18%), Civil Rights (18%).
Who are The Rice Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($2.0M), The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc ($1.5M), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($1.3M).
Does The Rice Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Rice 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 Rice Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Ibm International Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.
Where is The Rice Family Foundation based?
The Rice Family Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 126 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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