Realty Gift Fund
Santa Fe, NM · EIN 85-0479295. Reported 64 grants totalling $30.7M to 55 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". Realty Gift Fund checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
4 of the organizations Realty Gift Fund funded make grants themselves, and it reported 9 grants totalling $10.1M to them. That is 38% of the $26.3M of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Endowment Foundation | community foundation | Ohio | $7,645,654 | 4 | 4 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| Greater Horizons | grantmaking organization | Missouri | $1,240,238 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program | federated giving programme | Pennsylvania | $852,977 | 3 | 3 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| The Denver Foundation | community foundation | Colorado | $363,917 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $61,687. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $483,939; the smallest was $515 and the largest $4,626,493.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | Boston, MA | $6,182,471 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Endowment Fund | Hudson, OH | $5,926,277 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fidelity Charitable | Boston, MA | $3,092,438 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Endowment Foundation | Hudson, OH | $1,719,377 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| San Francisco Conservatory of Music | San Francisco, CA | $1,472,330 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Renaissance Charitable Foundation | Indianapolis, IN | $1,458,752 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greater Horizons | Kansas City, MO | $1,240,238 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Christian Charitable Foundation Inc | Alpharetta, GA | $1,219,824 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Upper Valley Haven Inc | White River Junction, VT | $1,141,140 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Berkeley Humane Society | Berkeley, CA | $1,053,911 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Newport Beach Public Library Foundation | Newport Beach, CA | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of Oasis | Corona Del Mar, CA | $800,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | $688,660 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program | Warwick, RI | $505,541 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Recovery Empowerment Network of Maricopa County Inc Aka Ren | Phoenix, AZ | $483,939 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Houston Food Bank | Houston, TX | $409,183 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc - Cline Charitable Fund | Indianapolis, IN | $373,393 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Denver Foundation | Denver, CO | $363,917 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program | Malvern, PA | $347,436 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hudson Community Foundaton | Hudson, OH | $247,822 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Parkinson's Foundation | New York, NY | $193,339 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Save the Children Federation | Fairfield, CT | $111,964 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Stevenson School | Pebble Beach, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Catholic Charities USA | Alexandria, VA | $78,409 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lifelink | Santa Fe, NM | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $72,435 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mississippi Valley Conservancy | La Crosse, WI | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Santa Fe Habitat for Humanity | Santa Fe, NM | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Youth Shelters & Family Services | Santa Fe, NM | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Youth Works | Albuquerque, NM | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cornell University (lab of Orinthology) | Ithaca, NY | $26,262 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Center for Investigative Reporting (reveal) | Emeryville, CA | $26,262 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Nature Conservancy | Arlington, VA | $26,262 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Colorado Public Radio | Centennial, CO | $25,047 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northwest Alabama Fundraisers Against Childhood Diseases | Tuscumbia, AL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Doctors Without Borders | New York, NY | $11,981 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Earthjustice | San Francisco, CA | $11,981 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charities of Albuquerque | Albuquerque, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Salvation Army Service Unit | Alexandria, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | New York, NY | $5,515 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| City of Hope | Duarte, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Drury University | Springfield, MO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Espanola Humane | Espanola, NM | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Girls Inc of Santa Fe | Santa Fe, NM | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lake County Historical Society | Lakeport, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nature & Culture International | Del Mar, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rice University | Houston, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rio Grande Food Project | Albuquerque, NM | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Rainbow of Hope Freedom Foundation | San Diego, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Explorer Preschool Inc | San Jose, CA | $1,608 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kiddo | Mill Valley, CA | $1,450 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boston University | Boston, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Keys Family Day School | Palo Alto, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tam High Foundation | Mill Valley, CA | $850 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
8 of 55 (15%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 15%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 38 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 14 | $3,972,293 | $5,000 |
| 2022 | 6 | $6,324,501 | $1,026,955 |
| 2023 | 27 | $7,608,137 | $26,262 |
| 2024 | 17 | $12.8M | $373,393 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Already committed for future years
Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Realty Gift Fund has 1 of them, worth $3,426,766. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program | Warwick, RI | $3,426,766 |
Where its money goes
30% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Realty Gift Fund's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 100 Lasalle Circle Suite B, Santa Fe, NM, 87505. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
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