· Private foundation
Irene Ritter Foundation Attndavid Ritter
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of IRENE RITTER FOUNDATION ATTNDAVID RITTER’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH | $40,000 |
| DAILY ACTS | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL (NRDC) | $25,000 |
| THE HOPE PROGRAM INC | $25,000 |
| ARIVA | $25,000 |
| LONG BEACH HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| RED HOOK INITIATIVE | $20,000 |
| COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $10,000 |
| GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR NYC | $10,000 |
| CURE SMA | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $475k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
92 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 57 since wound down; 17 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $292k · revenue +102%- RHRED HOOK INITIATIVE7× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +6%
- AIARIVA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- LOLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERSone grant, 2024 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
- CCCERFY CRAFT ENERGY RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2024 · $40k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Audiences New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is Asmc Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
120 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. 120 of the 198 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 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RED HOOK INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ARIVA INC ↗
- Who funds REUNITY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds Esperanza Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds Lenox Hill Hospital ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA ↗
- Who funds East End Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Daily Acts Organization ↗
- Who funds TEWA WOMEN UNITED ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · St Vincent Hospital · Brindle Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · Gale Family Foundation · La Liga · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Nusenda Foundation
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 Irene Ritter Foundation Attndavid Ritter 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Newark Public Radio Inc — 51% of income from government
- Academy Art Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Tampa Museum of Art Inc — 0% 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.