Mississippi · Private foundation
The Riley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,870,863
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $101M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations The Riley 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; $8k 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 | 20 | $3.7M | 15% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $4.9M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $3.0M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $3.8M | 15% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $3.1M | 9% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $3.2M | 35% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $3.2M | 23% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $3.5M | 17% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi Children's Museum | $2,626,972 | 8 | 11% |
| Meridian Community College Foundation | $2,255,750 | 3 | n/a |
| Mississippi Appa Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Multi-County Community Service Agency Inc | $406,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Meridian Symphony Association Inc | $385,500 | 9 | 22% |
| Rush Medical Foundation | $229,934 | 3 | 0% |
| Meridian Art Association | $213,154 | 9 | 27% |
| Anderson Regional Medical Center | $206,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Care Lodge Domestic Violence Shelter Inc | $121,119 | 6 | 4% |
| Free Clinic of Meridian Inc | $121,000 | 9 | 4% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($24M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Riley Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 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: Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · The Paul and Sherry Broadhead Foundation · Phil Hardin Foundation · Community Foundation of East Mississippi · United Way of East Mississippiinc · The Hardy Poindexter Graham Foundation · William Robert Baird Charitable Trust · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc · Mississippi Food Network Inc · Anderson Regional Medical Center · Gv Sonny Montgomery Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Riley Foundation
- How much does The Riley Foundation give?
- The Riley Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $3,745,213 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Riley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (55%), Education (38%), Health (3%).
- Who are The Riley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mississippi Children's Museum ($2.6M), Meridian Community College Foundation ($2.3M), Mississippi Appa Inc ($1.0M).
- Does The Riley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Riley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Riley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mississippi Power Foundation Inc, The Paul and Sherry Broadhead Foundation, Phil Hardin Foundation.
- Where is The Riley Foundation based?
- The Riley Foundation is based in MS.
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