Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Risor 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.
- $80k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 28
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Risor Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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 | 28 | $80k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $88k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $109k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $50k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $52k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $76k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $72k | 89% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $19k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Peck School | $84,000 | 5 | 0% |
| New Jersey Conservation Foundation | $57,600 | 7 | 0% |
| Fellowship of Christians in Universities and Schools Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Gill St Bernard's School | $34,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Dickinson College | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Richmond | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lundale Farm Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 5% |
| French and Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust Inc | $17,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Concord Academy | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Jersey Inc | $11,750 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($99k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Risor 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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Kean Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Fournier Family Foundation · Carverdelaney Families Foundation Inc · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Blauvelt Demarest Bellis Foundation Inc · Reed Family Foundation Inc · Ej Grassmann Trust · Pseg Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Investors Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Risor Foundation
- How much does The Risor Foundation give?
- The Risor Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $80,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Risor Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Environment (18%), Religion (16%).
- Who are The Risor Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Peck School ($84k), New Jersey Conservation Foundation ($58k), Fellowship of Christians in Universities and Schools Inc ($35k).
- Does The Risor Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Risor 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 Risor Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, The Kean Foundation Inc, The Hyde and Watson Foundation.
- Where is The Risor Foundation based?
- The Risor Foundation is based in MA.
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