· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOCUS MASSACHUSETTS (FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS IN UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS) | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND | $10,000 |
| ST ANDREW'S CHURCH | $7,500 |
| CONCORD ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| TURNER SYNDROME SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES | $5,000 |
| FOCUS NEW JERSEY (FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS IN UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS) | $3,500 |
| VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION - GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY PROJECT | $2,500 |
| LUNDALE FARM | $2,500 |
| THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF NEW JERSEY | $2,500 |
| INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES | $2,500 |
| BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL-PHILADELPHIA PA REGION | $2,500 |
| THE FRENCH AND PICKERING CREEKS CONSERVATION TRUST | $2,500 |
| JAMES WILSON INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| EPIPHANY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| EDCHOICE | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TPTHE PECK SCHOOL5× · 2017–2022 · $84k · revenue +17%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS IN UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS INC3× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +90%
- TGTHE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL4× · 2020–2023 · $34k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- FOF O C U S INCone grant, 2019 · $10k
- SLST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $10k
- TBThe Bronx Museum of the Artsone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -3%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
How this is measured
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE PECK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS IN UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds LUNDALE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH AND PICKERING CREEKS CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Turner Syndrome Society of the U S ↗
- Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
- Who funds EdChoice Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds JAMES WILSON INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL RIGHTS AND THE AMERICAN FOUNDING ↗
- Who funds THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds WESTON FOREST AND TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Bronx Museum of the Arts ↗
- Who funds The Peddie School ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds STREETSQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Risor Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Risor Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Raritan Headwaters Association: 94% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Freedom House Inc: 4% of income from government
- Life Camp Inc: 4% of income from government
- Cornerstone Family Programs: 3% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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