Michigan · Private foundation
The Royal Little Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $750k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2024
- 68
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $120,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 68 to 90
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations The Royal Little Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 59 | $725k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 68 | $812k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 77 | $909k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 78 | $966k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 79 | $988k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 90 | $922k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 89 | $879k | 24% |
| FY2017 | 87 | $1.0M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc | $1,070,500 | 8 | 3% |
| Shady Hill School | $471,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Green Mountain Conservation Group | $347,000 | 7 | 28% |
| Women's Project & Productions Inc | $237,658 | 5 | 10% |
| Lyford Cay Foundation Inc | $230,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Pine Street Inn Inc | $182,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Mint Theater Company Inc | $151,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Chinatown Community Land Trust Inc | $136,500 | 7 | 10% |
| History Matters Back to the Future Inc | $130,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Sound Action | $125,000 | 8 | 15% |
Show all 137 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($828k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Royal Little Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 122 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: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Beardsley Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Beacon Foundation · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Gruben Charitable Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare The Royal Little Family Foundation with peer funders
About The Royal Little Family Foundation
- How much does The Royal Little Family Foundation give?
- The Royal Little Family Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $749,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 68 and 90 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Royal Little Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Education (14%), Environment (14%).
- Who are The Royal Little Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc ($1.1M), Shady Hill School ($471k), Green Mountain Conservation Group ($347k).
- Does The Royal Little Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Royal Little Family 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 Royal Little Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Amica Companies Foundation, Seattle Foundation.
- Where is The Royal Little Family Foundation based?
- The Royal Little Family Foundation is based in MI.
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