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Rheinstrom Hill Community Foundation

Hudson, NY · EIN 14-1683989. Reported 115 grants totalling $1,390,168 to 45 organizations across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$7,500median grant
$1,390,168granted, 2020-2024
45organizations funded
74%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,219,390assets, 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. Rheinstrom Hill Community 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 $7,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $80,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
2 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
32 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
26 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
43 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
7 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
Regional Food Bank of NenyLatham, NY$262,500552024
GreenagersSouth Egremont, MA$100,000552024
Perfect Ten Afterschool IncHudson, NY$90,000552024
Roeliff Jansen Community LibraryHillsdale, NY$90,000552024
Town of HillsdaleHillsdale, NY$80,000112024
Columbia Memorial Health FoundationHudson, NY$68,724332024
Audubon New YorkAlbany, NY$62,000332022
High & Mighty Therapeutic Riding & DrivingGhent, NY$60,000552024
Roeliff Jansen ParkHillsdale, NY$50,000112023
Columbia Greene Community FoundationHudson, NY$48,000442023
Church of St John in the WildernessCopake Falls, NY$47,000442024
Columbia County Recovery KitchenLivingston, NY$42,500442024
Town of CopakeCopake, NY$42,500442023
Friends of Copake Grange 935Copake, NY$42,000552024
Columbia Memorial Hospital FoundationHudson, NY$30,000222021
Long Table HarvestGermantown, NY$28,000552024
Taconic Hills Central School Co Berkshire Taconic Community FoundationSheffield, MA$28,000552024
Copake Fire CompanyCopake, NY$25,000112024
Hawthorne Valley AssociationGhent, NY$25,000222022
West Copake Reformed ChurchCopake, NY$20,114112021
Hillsdale Economic & Development CorpHillsdale, NY$17,500332024
Columbia County Libraries AssociationHillsdale, NY$15,500332024
First Presbyterian ChurchHudson, NY$15,000112020
Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts IncHudson, NY$14,000442024
Taconic Hills Dollars for ScholarsPhilmont, NY$12,000112024
Roving Actors' Repertory Ensemble IncCopake, NY$8,000552024
Alight CenterHudson, NY$7,500552024
Hillsdale United Methodist ChurchHillsdale, NY$5,500222024
Columbia Land ConservancyChatham, NY$5,000112020
Friends of East GateHillsdale, NY$5,000112024
Hudson Area LibraryHudson, NY$5,000112024
Roeliff Jansen Historical SocietyCopake Falls, NY$5,000112023
Triform Camphill CommunityHudson, NY$5,000112024
Upper Hudson Planned ParenthoodAlbany, NY$5,000112023
Columbia Children's CenterHudson, NY$4,500222022
City of Hudson Fire DepartmentHudson, NY$3,290112024
Mellenville Volunteer Fire CompanyMellenville, NY$3,290112024
Cornell Cooperative ExtensionHudson, NY$3,250222021
Animalkind IncHudson, NY$3,000332024
Greater Hudson Promise NeighborhoodHudson, NY$2,000112021
And-Hof AnimalsCatskill, NY$1,000112021
Chatham Area Recreation ProjectChatham, NY$1,000112023
Greenport Rescue SquadHudson, NY$1,000112024
Walter B Howard Elementary SchoolNew Lebanon, NY$1,000112021
Hudson High School Class of 2024Hudson, NY$500112023

25 of 45 (56%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 74%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 76 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Health Care
17 grants
Education
13 grants
Arts & Culture
11 grants
Food & Nutrition
10 grants
Environment
9 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
5 grants
Human Services
4 grants
Animal Welfare
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202020$231,750$5,500
202121$229,614$7,500
202222$260,000$10,000
202325$313,474$6,000
202427$355,330$6,000

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

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 91% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$1.3M
Massachusetts
$128K

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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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $7,500. 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 New York.
  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 Rheinstrom Hill Community Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 1 Hudson City Centre 200, Hudson, NY, 12534. 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 14-1683989 · 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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