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Richman Brothers Foundation

Rocky River, OH · EIN 34-6504927. Reported 16 grants totalling $124,000 to 16 organizations across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$9,000median grant
$124,000granted, 2024
16organizations funded
$3,070,900assets, latest filing

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. Richman Brothers 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.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $9,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $4,000 and the largest $11,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
2 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
6 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
8 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Saint Vitus Endowment TrustCleveland, OH$11,000112024
Boys Hope Girls Hope of Ne OhioCleveland, OH$10,000112024
Food Bank of Greater ClevelandCleveland, OH$10,000112024
Free Clinic of Greater ClevelandCleveland, OH$10,000112024
North Coast Health FoundationLakewood, OH$10,000112024
Partnership SchoolsCleveland, OH$10,000112024
St Martin De PorresCleveland, OH$10,000112024
Urban Community SchoolCleveland, OH$10,000112024
Inner City Tennis ClinicsLakewood, OH$8,000112024
Slovenian Museum and ArchivesCleveland, OH$7,000112024
Holy Family Cancer HomeParma, OH$5,000112024
Lutheran Metropilitan MinistryCleveland, OH$5,000112024
The LyceumSouth Euclid, OH$5,000112024
The TurnNorth Olmsted, OH$5,000112024
First Tee of AkronAkron, OH$4,000112024
Replay for KidsMedina, OH$4,000112024
Plus 76 grants to individuals totalling $420,980 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 8 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
3 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Employment
1 grant
Food & Nutrition
1 grant
Arts & Culture
1 grant

Where its money goes

Cleveland, OH
$83K
Lakewood, OH
$18K
Parma, OH
$5K
South Euclid, OH
$5K
North Olmsted, OH
$5K
Akron, OH
$4K
Medina, OH
$4K

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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund4 shared recipientsThe Cleveland Foundation4 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America4 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc4 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund4 shared recipientsThe Nord Family Foundation3 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $9,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Ohio.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Richman Brothers Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 19885 Detroit Rd Ups Pmb 338, Rocky River, OH, 44116. 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.

EIN 34-6504927 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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