Funding search · EIN 274195832 · Chevy Chase, MD

The Riss Foundation

Name: The Riss Foundation grants, 2022–2025
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

46
grants reported: $66,500
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $1,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

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Top recipients

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Temple Sinai2 grants · $10,000
Capital Area Food Bank4 grants · $9,000
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation4 grants · $7,500
World Central Kitchen3 grants · $6,000
Lungevity Foundation4 grants · $4,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of America2 grants · $3,500
Friends of Compass3 grants · $3,000
Rip Medical Debt2 grants · $2,800
Transgender Law Center2 grants · $2,500
National Immigration Law Center2 grants · $2,000

Giving over time

$18,700

2022

$17,300

2023

$16,500

2024

$14,000

2025

Grant history

All 46 reported grants, largest first.

$5,000
Temple Sinai · Washington, DC · 2023
Unrestricted
$5,000
Temple Sinai · Washington, DC · 2022
Unrestricted
$2,500
Capital Area Food Bank · Washington, DC · 2025
Unrestricted
$2,500
World Central Kitchen · Washington, DC · 2025
Unrestricted
$2,500
Capital Area Food Bank · Washington, DC · 2024
Unrestricted
$2,000
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation · New York, NY · 2025
Unrestricted
$2,000
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
Unrestricted
$2,000
World Central Kitchen · Washington, DC · 2024
Unrestricted
$2,000
Capital Area Food Bank · Washington, DC · 2023
Unrestricted
$2,000
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$2,000
Capital Area Food Bank · Washington, DC · 2022
Unrestricted
$2,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of America · Washington, DC · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,800
Rip Medical Debt · Long Island City, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,500
Transgender Law Center · Oakland, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,500
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,500
Planned Parenthood Federation of America · Washington, DC · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,500
World Central Kitchen · Washington, DC · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
Center for Reproductive Rights · New York, NY · 2025
Unrestricted
$1,000
Compass Pro Bono · Washington, DC · 2025
Unrestricted
$1,000
Doctors Without Borders · New York, NY · 2025
Unrestricted
$1,000
Lungevity Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2025
Unrestricted
$1,000
National Immigration Law Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
Unrestricted
$1,000
Transgender Law Center · Oakland, CA · 2025
Unrestricted
$1,000
Undue Medical Debt · Boston, MA · 2025
Unrestricted
$1,000
Center for Reproductive Rights · New York, NY · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
Doctors Without Borders · New York, NY · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
Friends of Compass · Washington, DC · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
Lungevity Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
National Immigration Law Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
Theater Washington · Washington, DC · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
Undue Medical Debt · Boston, MA · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
Womens Reproductive Rights Assistance Project · Santa Monica, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
American Jewish World Service · New York, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
Friends of Compass · Washington, DC · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
Lungevity Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
Theater Washington · Washington, DC · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
American Jewish World Service · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,000
Earthjustice · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,000
Friends of Compass · Washington, DC · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,000
Lungevity Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,000
Naacp Legal Defense & Educ Fund · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,000
Rip Medical Debt · Long Island City, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,000
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson'S Research · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$500
Levine Music · Washington, DC · 2024
Unrestricted
$500
Yale College · New Haven, CT · 2022
Unrestricted
$200
Henry Street Settlement · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.