· Private foundation
Ira and Edgra Ringler Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF THE CEELI INSTITUTE | $10,500 |
| ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| ARTS EVERY DAY | $10,000 |
| WOMENS FOUNDATION OF BOSTON | $9,000 |
| TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND | $9,000 |
| ERIN LEVITAS FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL KEEPER | $8,000 |
| JEFFY'S FIELD FUND CO THE COMMUNITY FDN OF FREDERICK COUNTY | $8,000 |
| LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $8,000 |
| CASA MARYLAND | $6,500 |
| PUBLIC MEDIA BRIDGE FUND | $5,000 |
| MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE | $4,500 |
| GAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY | $4,500 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Ira and Edgra Ringler Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of 0% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SBSANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +43%
- WFWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $33k · revenue +123%
- TLTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY5× · 2021–2025 · $32k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- FFFUND FOR EDUCATION EXCELLENCE EMERGENCY SCHOOL CLOSURE FUND- TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2020 · $20k
- MFMAUI FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES INCone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +5%
- BBBALTIMORE BAR FOUNDATION COURTING ARTone grant, 2021 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…
The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…
The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…
The mission of the coalition to restore coastal louisiana (crcl) is to unite people in action to achieve a thriving, sustainable louisiana coast for all.
The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
To advance conservation governance through political will and to provide "on the ground" solutions to ensure sustained economic benefits while managing the earth's natural resource wealth for future generations.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Channelkeeper Inc and the most unlike its peers is Santa Cruz Island Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CEELI INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ERIN MICHELE LEVITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE ↗
- Who funds ARTS EVERY DAY INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CHAMBER MUSIC INC T/A CHESAPEAKE MUSIC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CASA INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA CRUZ ISLAND FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Emmett Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · The Osherenko-Young Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Marin Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ira and Edgra Ringler Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Public Justice Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Arts Every Day Inc — 4% of income from government
- Chesapeake Chamber Music Inc T/a Chesapeake Music — 2% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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