The Ressler Family Foundation
Los Angeles, CA · EIN 95-6979496. Reported 93 grants totalling $19.0M to 64 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". The Ressler Family Foundation 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
3 of the organizations The Ressler Family Foundation funded make grants themselves, and it reported 6 grants totalling $365,000 to them. That is 2% of the $16.4M 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? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Hill Foundation | community foundation | California | $200,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| International Community Foundation | community foundation | California | $145,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 | Its form does not ask |
| The Community Foundation | community foundation | North Carolina | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | 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 $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $6,276,374.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown University | Providence, RI | $12.9M | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Harvard Westlake School | Studio City, CA | $1,400,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Columbia Law School | New York, NY | $1,028,878 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| UCLA | Los Angeles, CA | $817,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation | Washington, DC | $674,579 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America | New York, NY | $261,666 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| BABY2BABY | Los Angeles, CA | $210,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Liberty Hill Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $200,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Indiaspora | San Francisco, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| This Is About Humanity | National City, CA | $145,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| World Central Kitchen | Washington, DC | $106,666 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center for Art Research and Alliances | New York, NY | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| City Harvest Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $100,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| CASA Cornelia Law Center | San Diego, CA | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| International Rescue Committee | Glendale, CA | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Wilshire Blvd Temple | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Worth Rises | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Clean Air Task Force Inc | Boston, MA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rainforest Foundation | Brooklyn, NY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| North Carolina Association of Free & Charitable Clinics | Charlotte, NC | $33,334 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Assn Free & Charitable Clinics | Winstonsalem, NC | $33,333 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Children's Defense Fund | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Lubavitch | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New Heights Youth Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Stand Up to Cancer | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Uja Federation of New York | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alexandria House | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Foundation of Western Nc | Asheville, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dream Corps | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Feeding America | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Organization for Rare Disorders | Quincy, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oxfam | Boston, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Bail Project | Venice, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tourette Association of America Inc | Bayside, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cedar Sinai Women's Guild | Beverly Hills, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Doctors Without Borders | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hilarity for Charity | Los Angeles, CA | $14,727 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| South Asian Council | Queens, NY | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Anti-Recidivism Coalition | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Catholic Charities Second Century Fund | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Giffords & Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Theological Seminary | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rethink Food Nyc Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Southeast Ventura County YMCA | Westlake Village, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United States Holocaust Museum Memorial | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 2ND Stage Theater | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Advocates for Children of New York | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Minority Humanitarian Foundation | Lemon Grove, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Washington Market School | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of Westchester and Putnam | White Plains, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Youth Renewal Fund | New York, NY | $3,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rett Syndrome Research Trust | Trumbull, CT | $3,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Desai Foundation | Woburn, MA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jq International | West Hollywood, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The New (new) Masses Foundation | New York, NY | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Children With Cancer | London | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Children's Law Center of California | Monterey Park, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Historic Madison Inc | Madison, IN | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society | Rye Brook, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
19 of 64 (30%) 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 38%, 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- UCLA
SUPPORT MELANOMA CANCER RESEARCH - North Carolina Association of Free & Charitable Clinics
SUPPORT OF HEALTHCARE FOR THE UNINSURED AND UNDERSERVED OF NORTH CAROLINA - Giffords & Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence
GENERAL SUPPORT TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE - Southeast Ventura County YMCA
GENERAL SUPPORT OF CALIFORNIA STRONG - Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert
GENERAL SUPPORT IN HONOR OF SHARON NELLES
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 56 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 | 8 | $211,000 | $7,500 |
| 2022 | 34 | $10.2M | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 24 | $4,250,600 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 27 | $4,321,227 | $20,000 |
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
68% of its giving went to organizations in Rhode Island.
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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 The Ressler Family Foundation'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: 4700 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90010. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
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