Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Richless Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $11k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $9,720
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $187k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations The Richless Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $454 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 | 19 | $11k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $11k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $10k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $11k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $9k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $37k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $10k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $10k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church | $85,123 | 9 | n/a |
| Hopewell United Methodist Church | $20,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Coalition for Christian Outreach | $1,300 | 8 | 0% |
| The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc | $600 | 6 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $450 | 6 | 0% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $350 | 1 | n/a |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $350 | 5 | 0% |
| Open Hand Ministries Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Gettysburg Foursquare Church | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Love Thy Neighbor | $250 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Richless 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 Pittsburgh Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Richless Foundation
- How much does The Richless Foundation give?
- The Richless Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $11,489 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Richless Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (89%), Membership Benefit (4%), Environment (2%).
- Who are The Richless Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church ($85k), Hopewell United Methodist Church ($20k), Coalition for Christian Outreach ($1k).
- Does The Richless Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Richless Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Richless Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is The Richless Foundation based?
- The Richless Foundation is based in PA.
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