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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.

$502k
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$579kEnvironment$426kCivil Rights$363kArts & Culture$315kEducation$270kYouth Development$211kPhilanthropy$192kFood & Nutrition$185kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $310k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACLU FOUNDATION$70,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH$40,000
DAILY ACTS$30,000
ARIVA$25,000
LONG BEACH HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP$25,000
NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL (NRDC)$25,000
THE HOPE PROGRAM INC$25,000
RED HOOK INITIATIVE$20,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS$20,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$20,000
CURE SMA$10,000
NDI NEW MEXICO$10,000
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$10,000
HUMAN ARTS ASSOCIATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EAST END HOSPICE: $25k → 7%RIVER FUND: $200 → 13%ARIVA: $25k → 28%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $30k → 18%CANINE ASSISTANTS: $3k → 13%EAST END HOSPICE: $25k → 7%ARIVA: $25k → 28%ARIVA: $25k → 28%ARIVA: $10k → 28%ARIVA: $10k → 28%ARIVA: $10k → 28%ARIVA: $10k → 28%ARIVA: $10k → 28%ARIVA: $10k → 28%CASA MILAGRO: $14k → 12%THE FOOD DEPOT: $14k → 12%THE FOOD DEPOT: $10k → 12%THE FOOD DEPOT: $10k → 12%THE FOOD DEPOT: $5k → 12%CYPRESS HILLS CHILD CARE: $5k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $30k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $25k → 20%THE FOOD DEPOT: $5k → 12%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $25k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $20k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $20k → 20%THE FOOD DEPOT: $3k → 12%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $20k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $10k → 20%CHILDREN'S AID: $30k → 17%DOROT INC: $500 → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $10k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
NJ
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 92 repeat orgs$874k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
87

Total granted

$2.9M
$684k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+31%

Still filing today

66%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $292k · revenue +102%
  • RH
    RED HOOK INITIATIVE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +6%
  • AI
    ARIVA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • LO
    LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • CC
    CERFY CRAFT ENERGY RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
6
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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7
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
8
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
9
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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10
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
11
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
12
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Audiences New York Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

120 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
116/120
Grantees still filing
81/120
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $184,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $161,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODEsperanza Shelter Inc: $92,000 · OtherLONG BEACH HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP: $90,000 · OtherCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $72,250 · Other+125 more: $1,553,650 · Other+125 moreRED HOOK INITIATIVE: $150,000 · Human ServicesRED HOOK INITI…ARIVA INC: $135,000 · Human ServicesARIVA INCEast End Hospice Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesEast End Hospi…THE FOOD DEPOT: $46,500 · Human ServicesTHE FOOD DEPOTTEWA WOMEN UNITED: $30,000 · Human ServicesTEWA WOMEN UNI…THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S…+8 more: $43,950 · Human Services+8 moreAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $292,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN …THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $30,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER…+2 more: $11,000 · Civil RightsREUNITY RESOURCES: $115,000 · Environment350ORG: $47,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $45,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC: $36,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $30,000 · EnvironmentDaily Acts Organization: $30,000 · EnvironmentLenox Hill Hospital: $80,000 · HealthFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA: $52,500 · HealthSANTA FE RECOVERY CENTER INC: $31,000 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthTHE JED FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $14,000 · HealthGERARD'S HOUSE: $14,000 · Health+8 more: $18,100 · HealthMuseum of Modern Art: $42,125 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $35,500 · Arts & CultureINDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER: $24,000 · Arts & CultureSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $17,200 · Arts & CultureMARQUIS STUDIOS LTD: $13,500 · Arts & CultureThe Art Students League Of New York Inc: $12,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE NEUBERGER MUSEUM OF ART INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $8,700 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $66,862 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $54,500 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $11,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,153,400Human Services$485,450Civil Rights$333,000Environment$303,000Health$249,600Arts & Culture$229,887Food & Nutrition$75,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $292,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRED HOOK INITIATIVE: $150,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetARIVA INC: $135,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetREUNITY RESOURCES: $115,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetEsperanza Shelter Inc: $92,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetLenox Hill Hospital: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $72,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH: $69,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $54,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA: $52,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEast End Hospice Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget350ORG: $47,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT: $46,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $42,125 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC: $36,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $35,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA FE RECOVERY CENTER INC: $31,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTEWA WOMEN UNITED: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDaily Acts Organization: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetINDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER: $24,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $22,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN ARTS ASSOCIATION LTD: $20,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ANTI-VIOLENCE EDUCATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST MARYS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $19,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $17,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFriendship Club: $16,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetGROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGERARD'S HOUSE: $14,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCASA MILAGRO: $14,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMARQUIS STUDIOS LTD: $13,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $13,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Art Students League Of New York Inc: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 THE HOPE PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER 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 TEWA WOMEN UNITED ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Daily Acts Organization ↗

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.

Santa Fe Community Fo…The New York Communit…The Hyde and Watson F…St Vincent HospitalBrindle FoundationAnchorum St VincentCon Alma Health Found…Gale Family FoundationLa LigaNancy Ann Mellen Foun…The Frost FoundationNusenda Foundation
Santa Fe Community FoundationNM30.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Irene Ritter Foundation Attndavid Ritter funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irene Ritter Foundation Attndavid Ritter. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 51%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 198 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home