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The Riecker Charitable 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.

$190k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
21 to 28
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$4.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Riecker Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementReligionInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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
FY2025still arriving22$190k9%
FY202425$200k20%
FY202324$200k21%
FY202221$200k10%
FY202128$220k32%
FY202025$150k24%
FY201922$218k27%
FY201823$220k35%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$688kInternational$363kHealth$245kHuman Services$174kEducation$98kFood & Nutrition$57kRecreation & Sports$23kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WI
NY
PA
NJ
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod$224,5009n/a
Immanuel Lutheran Church$177,0009n/a
Faith Aid$173,500929%
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church$171,8759n/a
Northwell Health Foundation$130,00090%
Lutheran World Relief Inc$120,87580%
Paradigm Foundation$67,50097%
Cornerstones Inc$55,00080%
Hope 21 Ministries$43,00096%
Clymer-French Creek Library$39,000610%
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All grantees of The Riecker Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod$224,5009n/a
Immanuel Lutheran Church$177,0009n/a
Faith Aid$173,500929%
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church$171,8759n/a
Northwell Health Foundation$130,00090%
Lutheran World Relief Inc$120,87580%
Paradigm Foundation$67,50097%
Cornerstones Inc$55,00080%
Hope 21 Ministries$43,00096%
Clymer-French Creek Library$39,000610%
Hmh Hospitals Corporation$30,00020%
Hackensack Meridian Health Inc$25,00020%
Judys Elves Foundation$24,5006n/a
Jamestown Center City Development Corporation$20,00030%
Trinity Lutheran Church$20,0002n/a
Community Bible Study$17,00080%
Conduit Ministry Inc$14,5004n/a
Everybody Wins DC Inc$13,50061%
The Village at Rockville Inc$13,00030%
Life Church$13,0003n/a
Abused and Homeless Children's Refuge Inc$11,50050%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$10,00020%
Operation Homefront Inc$5,00020%
Concordia College Alabama$5,00010%
Lutheran Social Services National Capital Areainc$4,50020%
Newburgh Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$3,00020%
5 Loaves and 2 Fish Outreach Ministry Inc$3,00021%
Diamond Dawgs Travel Baseball$3,0002n/a
Westfield Stray Cat Rescue Inc$3,00022%
Fisher House Foundation Inc$2,50010%
St Christopher's Inn Inc$2,00010%
The Maryland State Boychoir Inc$2,00010%
The Salvation Army$1,5001n/a
Shanti Bhavan Children's Project Inc$1,50020%
Precious Paws$1,5002n/a
City Mission Society Inc$1,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($362k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Riecker Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFaith Aid: $173,500 over 9y, 29% of budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $130,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLutheran World Relief Inc: $120,875 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetParadigm Foundation: $67,500 over 9y, 7.4% of budgetCornerstones Inc: $55,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHope 21 Ministries: $43,000 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetClymer-French Creek Library: $39,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetHmh Hospitals Corporation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHackensack Meridian Health Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJamestown Center City Development Corporation: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Bible Study: $17,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEverybody Wins DC Inc: $13,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThe Village at Rockville Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAbused and Homeless Children's Refuge Inc: $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Homefront Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConcordia College Alabama: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLutheran Social Services National Capital Areainc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNewburgh Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budget5 Loaves and 2 Fish Outreach Ministry Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWestfield Stray Cat Rescue Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Christopher's Inn Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maryland State Boychoir Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetShanti Bhavan Children's Project Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCity Mission Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $250 over 1y, 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 27.

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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.

United Way of the National Capital AreaVA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of the National Capital Area · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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.

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About The Riecker Charitable Foundation

How much does The Riecker Charitable Foundation give?
The Riecker Charitable Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $190,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Riecker Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (38%), International (20%), Health (13%).
Who are The Riecker Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lutheran Church Missouri Synod ($225k), Immanuel Lutheran Church ($177k), Faith Aid ($174k).
Does The Riecker Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Riecker Charitable 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 Riecker Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of the National Capital Area, American Endowment Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is The Riecker Charitable Foundation based?
The Riecker Charitable Foundation is based in DE.

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 64 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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