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The Rice Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Rice Foundation Inc

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$164k
Granted FY2018
22
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Arts & Culture$138kAnimals$50kEducation$48kReligion$25kPhilanthropy$21kHealth$20kPublic Benefit$10kYouth Development$9kOther$0
02FY2018 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k15 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $129k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART$41,500
ROANOKE CULTURAL ENDOWMENT$20,000
ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$15,632
ROANOKE COLLEGE$15,000
NORTH CROSS SCHOOL$15,000
GARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER$12,000
UNITED WAY OF ROANOKE VALLEY$10,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$6,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$5,000
VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT$5,000
VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION$5,000
NATIONAL MULITPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$4,520
WEST END CENTER FOR YOUTH$2,500
ENSWORTH$2,500
SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $150 → 13%BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $150 → 13%SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $1k → 8%SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$231k · 17 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
7

Total granted

$231k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+8%

Still filing today

65%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GN
    GARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $23k · revenue +34%
  • NC
    North Cross School
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +61%
  • VP
    VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE RESCUE MISSION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • JC
    JEFFERSON CENTER FOUNDATION LTD
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +5%
  • HM
    HARRISON MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +8%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra

The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…

Arts & Culture
2
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
3
Virginia Association of Museums

The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".

Arts & Culture
4
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
5
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
6
Richmond Art Center

To be a catalyst in Richmond for learning and living through art.

Arts & Culture
7
Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation

The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.

Science & Tech
8
The Virginia Air & Space Center

To serve as the region's leading source of informational science education through interactive science demonstrations, hands-on education programs and outreach programs.

Arts & Culture
9
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
10
Richmond Shakespeare Fka Quill Theatre

We produce vital works of classical and contemporary theatre, with Shakespeare as our foundation. We approach this work boldly with a resolve to ignite spirits, educate minds and defy expectation.

Arts & Culture
11
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
12
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce

The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bath County Christmas Mother Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART: $83,000 · Arts & CultureTAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ARTGARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION: $23,000 · Arts & CultureGARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATIONROANOKE CULTURAL ENDOWMENT: $20,000 · Arts & CultureROANOKE CULTURAL ENDOWMENTJEFFERSON CENTER FOUNDATION LTD: $8,334 · Arts & CultureJEFFERSON CENTER FOUNDATION LTD+3 more: $2,100 · Arts & CultureTHE RESCUE MISSION: $50,000 · OtherTHE RESCUE MISSIONST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $25,348 · OtherST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHNATIONAL MULITPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $9,080 · OtherNATIONAL MULITPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETYBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $6,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAENSWORTH: $5,000 · Other+7 more: $8,169 · Other+7 moreNorth Cross School: $20,000 · EducationNorth Cross Scho…ROANOKE COLLEGE: $18,246 · EducationROANOKE COLLEGEVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationVIRGINIA TECH FO…UNITED WAY OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · HealthCarilion Clinic Foundation: $1,000 · HealthVIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT: $10,000 · Public BenefitSAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $2,000 · Human ServicesBATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER INC: $300 · Human ServicesLAND SAVERS UNITED: $2,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$136,434Other$103,597Education$48,246Philanthropy$20,000Health$11,000Public Benefit$10,000Human Services$2,300Environment$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART: $83,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNorth Cross School: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROANOKE CULTURAL ENDOWMENT: $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetROANOKE COLLEGE: $18,246 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON CENTER FOUNDATION LTD: $8,334 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAND SAVERS UNITED: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHARRISON MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCarilion Clinic Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER INC: $300 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBATH COUNTY ARTS ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Community Foundation …Farrell FoundationThe Beirne Carter Fou…Cartledge Charitable …Evelyn F James Founda…The Ceres Foundation …Taubman Foundation fo…Guilford FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …
Community Foundation Serving Western VirginiaVA24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Farrell Foundation · The Beirne Carter Foundation · Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc · Evelyn F James Foundation · The Ceres Foundation Inc · Taubman Foundation for the Arts · Guilford Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Rice Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rice Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 29 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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