Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Richard Vague Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $97k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Richard Vague Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $3k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $18k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $18k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $125k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $31k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $58k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $30k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Franklin Institute | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Children's Literacy Initiative | $52,758 | 3 | 0% |
| Mighty Writers | $45,693 | 4 | 0% |
| Fringearts | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Drexel University | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Orphan Disease Pathway Project | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Committee of Seventy | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($52k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Richard Vague Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Independence Foundation · Future Standard Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Connelly Foundation · The Leslie Miller and Richard Worley Foundation · The Neubauer Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The Snider Foundation · The Lida Foundation
How this is measured
About The Richard Vague Foundation
- How much does The Richard Vague Foundation give?
- The Richard Vague Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $2,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Richard Vague Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Arts & Culture (20%), Science & Tech (15%).
- Who are The Richard Vague Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Franklin Institute ($75k), Children's Literacy Initiative ($53k), Mighty Writers ($46k).
- Does The Richard Vague Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Richard Vague 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 Richard Vague Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, Independence Foundation.
- Where is The Richard Vague Foundation based?
- The Richard Vague Foundation is based in PA.
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