California · Private foundation
The Righteous Persons Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.6M
- Granted FY2023
- 30
- Grants FY2023
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
58% of The Righteous Persons Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to University Of Southern California, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 22 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Righteous Persons Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 23 organizations, $4M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 28
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 9
- Total assets, FY2023
- $37k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations The Righteous Persons Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $675k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 26 | $3.5M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $3.2M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $2.3M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $2.4M | 22% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $2.3M | 25% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $2.4M | 52% |
| FY2017 | 26 | $2.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Story Partners | $1,750,000 | 4 | 28% |
| Jewish Funders Network | $1,500,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $950,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Jews United for Justice Inc | $765,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Katahdin Foundation | $700,000 | 3 | 39% |
| Encounter Programs Inc | $700,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice | $700,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Institute for Jewish Spirituality Inc | $675,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Union for Reform Judaism | $663,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Reboot Inc | $650,000 | 3 | 13% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Righteous Persons Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc · Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Proteus Fund Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Dorot Foundation · New Israel Fund
How this is measured
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About The Righteous Persons Foundation
- How much does The Righteous Persons Foundation give?
- The Righteous Persons Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $3,600,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Righteous Persons Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Civil Rights (19%), Education (18%).
- Who are The Righteous Persons Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish Story Partners ($1.8M), Jewish Funders Network ($1.5M), Anti-Defamation League ($950k).
- Does The Righteous Persons Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Righteous Persons Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Righteous Persons Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is The Righteous Persons Foundation based?
- The Righteous Persons Foundation is based in CA.
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