California · Private foundation
The River 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.
- $62k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations The River Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 | 27 | $62k | 41% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $65k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $63k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $55k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $67k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $110k | 59% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $89k | 37% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $99k | 35% |
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 Innocence Project Inc | $100,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Freedom of the Press Foundation | $60,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Survival International (Usa) | $52,510 | 9 | 5% |
| William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc | $40,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Rainforest Action Network | $38,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Bail Project Inc | $23,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American University | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Earthjustice | $19,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Palestine Children's Relief Fund | $18,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Slow Money Institute Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($123k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The River Foundation supplied at peak.
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 Ford Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Artemisia Fund · The Yelp Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Weingart Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The River Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The River Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About The River Foundation
- How much does The River Foundation give?
- The River Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $61,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The River Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (22%), International (16%), Environment (16%).
- Who are The River Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Innocence Project Inc ($100k), Freedom of the Press Foundation ($60k), Survival International (Usa) ($53k).
- Does The River Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The River 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 River Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, Impactassetsinc, Tides Foundation.
- Where is The River Foundation based?
- The River Foundation is based in CA.
Play a game based on River’s filings →