Rite-Hite Foundation

• Rite-Hite Foundation, based in Milwaukee, makes grants to organisations rather than individuals, and its recorded grantees include educational, arts, community and social-service, church and health bodies, so an organisation doing work in those areas may fit its general charitable giving.
• Most of its grants are modest: about 8 in 10 of its 181 grants fall between $1,000 and $25,000, and half are $2,500 or less, so a request in that range is the realistic size, although its largest grant was about $215,000, which is not a ceiling.
• Applications are made in writing with no particular form required, but the filing says its plans preclude extensive consideration of unsolicited requests, so a relationship or introduction is likely to matter more than a cold approach.
• The filing gives no deadlines, and a first request is not ruled out by having no earlier grant, since only 12% of its grant dollars went to organisations it had funded before.
• Most of its recorded grant dollars went to Wisconsin organisations, but no geographic focus is stated, so an organisation elsewhere should not assume it is excluded.

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

• Ymca - Angola In · The rite-hite foundation makes contributions for the general charitable activities of the recipients listed. the foundation has not designated these contributions for specific purposes.
  $140,0002024 tax year
• MMAC Community Support Foundation · The rite-hite foundation makes contributions for the general charitable activities of the recipients listed. the foundation has not designated these contributions for specific purposes.
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Pi Sigma Epsilon National Educational Foundation · The rite-hite foundation makes contributions for the general charitable activities of the recipients listed. the foundation has not designated these contributions for specific purposes.
  $60,0002024 tax year
• All-In Milwaukee · The rite-hite foundation makes contributions for the general charitable activities of the recipients listed. the foundation has not designated these contributions for specific purposes.
  $56,5002024 tax year
• National Safety Council · The rite-hite foundation makes contributions for the general charitable activities of the recipients listed. the foundation has not designated these contributions for specific purposes.
  $30,0002024 tax year
• American Red Cross · The rite-hite foundation makes contributions for the general charitable activities of the recipients listed. the foundation has not designated these contributions for specific purposes.
  $25,0002024 tax year
• Dubuque Initiatives · The rite-hite foundation makes contributions for the general charitable activities of the recipients listed. the foundation has not designated these contributions for specific purposes.
  $25,0002024 tax year
• Childrens Hospital Wisconsin Foundation · The rite-hite foundation makes contributions for the general charitable activities of the recipients listed. the foundation has not designated these contributions for specific purposes.
  $18,0002024 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.