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Dl and Lf Rikkers Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$24k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
29
Grants FY2025
27
Organizations funded FY2024
4%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,500
Organizations funded a year
10 to 32
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$119k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Dl and Lf Rikkers Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving23$21k22%
FY202427$21k4%
FY202324$14k33%
FY202218$16k6%
FY202126$34k27%
FY202030$36k30%
FY201932$33k78%
FY201810$24k20%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$63kInternational$46kArts & Culture$24kEnvironment$19kHealth$18kAnimals$17kHousing & Shelter$16kFood & Nutrition$9kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
SD
IA
CT
CA
CO
NE
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 40 grantees
All grantees of Dl and Lf Rikkers Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Save The Children Federation Inc$25,76070%
Porchlight Inc$16,27080%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$11,50080%
Forward Theater Company$9,50070%
Madison Symphony Orchestra Inc$9,30060%
Friends of the World Food Program Inc$9,00040%
Clean Lakes Alliance Inc$8,20080%
Access Community Health Centers Inc$7,00070%
Agrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc$6,00020%
International Crane Foundation Inc$4,50040%
Madison Rotary Foundation$4,30050%
University of Wisconsin Foundation$3,60040%
International Rescue Committee INC$3,25020%
The Clear Fund$2,50010%
Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the D of C$2,0705n/a
United Way of Dane County Inc$2,00020%
Citizens Climate Education Corp$1,70060%
Attic Angel Association$1,50840%
Wisconsin Historical Foundation Inc$1,25040%
Wisconsin Public Radio Association Inc$1,23050%
Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance Inc$1,10050%
Agrace Health Inc$1,0371n/a
National Audubon Society Inc$1,00020%
American College of Surgeons$1,00010%
Denver Health and Hospitals Foundation$1,00010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$85050%
The Beacon$6801n/a
The Wisconsin Society for Ornithology Inc$50040%
American Surgical Association Foundation$50010%
Asa Charitable Foundation$5001n/a
University of Nebraska Foundation$50010%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$45040%
Institute of the Range & the American Mustang$40030%
American Birding Association$30030%
Mundo Esperanza Inc$2581n/a
Lighthouse Church Inc$2501n/a
Wisconsin Medical Society Foundation Inc$20020%
Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance Inc$1001n/a
Fontenelle Forest$10010%
Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dl and Lf Rikkers Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $25,760 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPorchlight Inc: $16,270 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $11,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetForward Theater Company: $9,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMadison Symphony Orchestra Inc: $9,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the World Food Program Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetClean Lakes Alliance Inc: $8,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAccess Community Health Centers Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAgrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Crane Foundation Inc: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMadison Rotary Foundation: $4,300 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Wisconsin Foundation: $3,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Clear Fund: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Dane County Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens Climate Education Corp: $1,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAttic Angel Association: $1,508 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWisconsin Historical Foundation Inc: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWisconsin Public Radio Association Inc: $1,230 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Wisconsin Bird Alliance Inc: $1,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Audubon Society Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican College of Surgeons: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Health and Hospitals Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wisconsin Society for Ornithology Inc: $500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Surgical Association Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Nebraska Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute of the Range & the American Mustang: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Birding Association: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWisconsin Medical Society Foundation Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFontenelle Forest: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSteamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI26.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · John J Frautschi Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Wps Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Ibm International Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Daniel W Erdman Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Dl and Lf Rikkers Family Foundation Inc

How much does Dl and Lf Rikkers Family Foundation Inc give?
Dl and Lf Rikkers Family Foundation Inc reported 29 grants totaling $24,039 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Dl and Lf Rikkers Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (26%), International (19%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are Dl and Lf Rikkers Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Save The Children Federation Inc ($26k), Porchlight Inc ($16k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($12k).
Does Dl and Lf Rikkers Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dl and Lf Rikkers Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dl and Lf Rikkers Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc, Madison Community Foundation.
Where is Dl and Lf Rikkers Family Foundation Inc based?
Dl and Lf Rikkers Family Foundation Inc is based in WI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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