The Riggio Foundation

• The Riggio Foundation does not accept unsolicited requests, so a cold application should not be sent, and the filing describes no open route in.
• If you are already in contact with the foundation or have been invited to make a request, a modest ask fits its pattern: half of its grants to organisations were $10,000 or less, and the median grant was $10,000.
• About 8 in 10 of its grants fall between $1,500 and $250,000, but its largest grant was $2,000,000, so that band is typical rather than a ceiling.
• Its grants span arts, health, education, environment, animal welfare and community services, and the filing shows grants mainly in New York and Pennsylvania, which is a pattern rather than a rule about who may apply.
• Repeat funding is common, with 36% of its grant dollars going to organisations it had also funded in earlier filings.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Dia Center for the Arts · To plan, realize and maintain public projects which cannot be easily produced, financed or owned by individual collectors because of their cost and magnitude.
  $2,000,0002024 tax year
• Weill Cornell · To provide exemplary and individualized clinical care, making groundbreaking biomedical discoveries, and educating generations of exceptional doctors and scientists.
  $600,0002024 tax year
• Green Is the New Blue · To promote the protection and preservation of the environment and to evaluate and inspire individuals participating in sports to reevaluate the substainability and ecological friendliness of their respective teams and events.
  $250,0002024 tax year
• Hayground School · To continue to work at fulfilling our promise of generating opportunities for east end children and their mentors to do things they love and discover new passions on a safe, structured environment.
  $250,0002024 tax year
• Union Square Partnership · To promote, preserve, and progress vibrant neighborhood by ensuring a clean, safe, and welcoming environment.
  $154,8002024 tax year
• Tulane Educational Fund · To create, communicate, conserve knowledge, and enrich individuals and communites so they can think, learn, and lead with integrity and wisdom.
  $50,0002024 tax year
• Hampton Classic Horse Show · A premier destination for horse, people, and a much anticipated stop on the summer tour for competitors.
  $40,0002024 tax year
• Central Park Conservancy · To preserve and enhance central park as a sanctuary from the pace and presures of the city life. to enhance the enjoymnent and wellbeing of all.
  $30,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.