Rittenberg Family Foundation
Metairie, LA · EIN 72-1488734. Reported 174 grants totalling $823,857 to 93 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Rittenberg Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $2,750. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $5 and the largest $35,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ochsner Clinic Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $120,000 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans | Metairie, LA | $90,300 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Jewish Endowment Fund of Louisiana | Metairie, LA | $69,100 | 8 | 4 | 2025 |
| Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast | New Orleans, LA | $34,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Congregation Gates of Prayer | Metairie, LA | $30,000 | 5 | 4 | 2025 |
| Jewish Federation of New Orleans | Metairie, LA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Way of Southeast Louisiana | New Orleans, LA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| J the Jewish News | San Francisco, CA | $27,000 | 4 | 3 | 2025 |
| Ochsner Clinic Foundation Karen Anklam | New Orleans, LA | $21,000 | 4 | 1 | 2025 |
| Jcrs | Metairie, LA | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Planned Parenthood | New Orleans, LA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| American Red Cross - New Orleans Chapter | New Orleans, LA | $19,000 | 5 | 4 | 2025 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | New Orleans, LA | $18,000 | 6 | 4 | 2025 |
| United Way | New Orleans, LA | $14,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jewish Children's Regional Service | Metairie, LA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ochsner Clinic | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ochsner Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Razom Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Silence Is Violence | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| The Jewish News | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United Way of Southeast Louisiana | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Touro Synagogue | New Orleans, LA | $9,750 | 7 | 4 | 2025 |
| American Red Cross | New Orleans, LA | $9,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jewish Federations of North America | Metairie, LA | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience | New Orleans, LA | $7,000 | 5 | 4 | 2025 |
| Stair | New Orleans, LA | $6,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| American Red Cross - No Chapter | New Orleans, LA | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Imf | Valley Village, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mmrf | Norwalk, CT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Stanford University | Redwood City, CA | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Innocence Project New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | $5,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Conmgregation Gates of Prayer | Metairie, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Dillard University | New Orleans, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Eastside College Preparatory School | Palo Alto, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Goldringwoldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life | Jackson, MS | $5,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Jef | Metairie, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ochsner Clinic Foundation Suzanne Plaisance Cfre | New Orleans, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Oncology Nursing Foundation | Pittsburgh, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Pro Bono Project | New Orleans, LA | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Vcpora | New Orleans, LA | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Wwno | New Orleans, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Young Leadership Council | New Orleans, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health | East Palo Alto, CA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Southeast Louisiana Legal Services | New Orleans, LA | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Hebrew Rest Cemetery | New Orleans, LA | $3,822 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Doctors Without Borders | Hagerstown, MD | $3,300 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | Newark, NJ | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bikur Sholim Cemetery | Donaldsonville, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Crohn's and Colitis Foundation | Albert Lea, MN | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hadassah | Washington, DC | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Touo Synagogue | New Orleans, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wyes-Tv | New Orleans, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Cac | New Orleans, LA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Contemporary Arts Center N O | New Orleans, LA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gordonstoun American Foundation | Milton, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Innocence Project | New Orleans, LA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & the Jimmy Fund | Boston, MA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| International Myeloma Foundation | Studio City, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Metairie Park Country Day School | Metairie, LA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation | Norwalk, CT | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Pennsylvania the Penn Fund | Philadelphia, PA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| World Central Kitchen | Washington, DC | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| ACLU of Louisiana | New Orleans, LA | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| New Orleans Women & Children's Shelter | New Orleans, LA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | Memphis, TN | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The 18TH Ward | New Orleans, LA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Alzheimer's Association Louisiana Chapter | Metairie, LA | $1,200 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Chron's and Colitis Foundation | Albert Lea, MN | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Glass Roots | New Orleans, LA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Goldringwoldenberg Institte of Southern Jewish Life | Jackson, MS | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Goldringwoldenberg Institute of Southern Jewis Life | Jackson, MS | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hias | Washington, DC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hope Community Health Center | New Orleans, LA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana | New Orleans, LA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jewish National Fund-USA | Rockville Centre, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Louisiana Bucket Brigade | New Orleans, LA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Roots of Music | New Orleans, LA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Southeast La Legal Services | New Orleans, LA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tulane Hillel | New Orleans, LA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Louisiana Bar Association | New Orleans, LA | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Root of Music | New Orleans, LA | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gates of Prayer | Metairie, LA | $630 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| La Procurement | Covington, LA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Piatigorsky Fdn | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Naples Senior Center at Jfcs | Naples, FL | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jewish Family Service of Greater No | Metairie, LA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Historic New Orleans Collection | New Orleans, LA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| US Holocaust Memorial Museum | Merrifield, VA | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The National World War II Museum | Topeka, KS | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Loomis Chaffee School | Windsor, CT | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Nurses Foundation | Chicago, IL | $5 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
30 of 93 (32%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 58%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 64 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 | 24 | $98,050 | $3,500 |
| 2022 | 44 | $150,452 | $1,750 |
| 2023 | 24 | $159,350 | $2,250 |
| 2024 | 30 | $197,000 | $3,000 |
| 2025 | 52 | $219,005 | $3,000 |
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.
Where its money goes
84% of its giving went to organizations in Louisiana. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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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: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,750. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Louisiana.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Rittenberg Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). 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: 500 Rue St Ann Ste 223, Metairie, LA, 70005. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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