Indiana · Private foundation
The Rick's Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 80%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 25
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 80% of the organizations The Rick's Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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 | 26 | $1.0M | 65% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $1.8M | 80% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $2.7M | 75% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $268k | 64% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $91k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $99k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $92k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association | $269,360 | 1 | 0% |
| The 174 Foundation Inc | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Purdue Research Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Teach for America Inc | $175,872 | 7 | 0% |
| Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School Inc | $135,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $104,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $76,344 | 2 | n/a |
| Crossroads of America Council Boy Scouts of America Inc | $65,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Teton Youth and Family Services | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Monterey Peninsula Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Rick's Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Ayres Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc
How this is measured
About The Rick's Family Foundation Inc
- How much does The Rick's Family Foundation Inc give?
- The Rick's Family Foundation Inc reported 29 grants totaling $1,014,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 25 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Rick's Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (51%), Recreation & Sports (21%), Health (9%).
- Who are The Rick's Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association ($269k), The 174 Foundation Inc ($250k), Purdue Research Foundation ($200k).
- Does The Rick's Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Rick's Family Foundation Inc 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 Rick's Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Rick's Family Foundation Inc based?
- The Rick's Family Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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