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James W and Carolyn O Ritchie Supporting Organization at a glance

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James W and Carolyn O Ritchie Supporting Organization

The purpose of the organization is to distribute substantially all of its income to and for the use of various charities and to help the corporation of the presiding bishop of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints carry our its purposes and perform its functions of helping provide children with better opportunities and a better…

$117k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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 2024.

Philanthropy$206kEducation$146kArts & Culture$133kInternational$69kCommunity Improvement$53kHuman Services$10kPublic Benefit$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $98,768, the rows itemized in this filing. The $117,287 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,519 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
$11,850
Median grant
3
States reached
$665k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Monument of the Americas$22,500
ENGAGE NOW AFRICA$12,561
LDS PHILANTHROPIES$12,000
WASATCH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$11,850
UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY$11,500
ACADEMY FOR CREATING ENTERPRS$10,008
HELP START FOUNDATION$9,349
LAUNCHING LEADERS WORLDWIDE$9,000
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 (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LAUNCHING LEADERS: $10k → 11%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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$559k · 10 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$559k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+23%

Still filing today

50%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MO
    Monument of the Americas Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $108k · revenue +18%
  • EN
    ENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $55k · revenue +33%
  • HS
    Help Start Education Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $19k · revenue ×17

Funded once

  • TC
    TUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +23%
  • HT
    HUMANITY'S TEAMgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +38%
  • IS
    INTERWEAVE SOLUTIONS
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -91%
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
World Arise Foundation
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2
Train the Nations
Religion
3
World Education Fund
Education
4
Wellness for Humanity Foundation
—
5
World Identity Network Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Unite the World

Unite The World's mission is to advance humankind to peace, kindness, and unity based on the Seven Universal Principles.

Religion
7
Tifie Humanitarian

Provide programs and projects that help people lift themselves out of poverty through the six pillars of development: shelter, power, food, water, education and job creation. Since its inception, Tifies goal is to help people provide for…

International
8
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.

Community Improvement
9
Wahea Foundation Baron Lee
Arts & Culture
10
The Wana Brands Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Enterprising Women Foundation Inc

The Enterprising Women Foundation was created by a community of women entrepreneurs who have come together to encourage and support philanthropy among women business owners for the purpose of advancing the growth of women's…

Community Improvement
12
World Health Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Engage Now Africa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Monument of the Americas Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: $170,500 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTSBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY: $56,750 · OtherBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITYACADEMY FOR CREATING ENTERPRS: $52,716 · OtherACADEMY FOR CREATING ENTERPRSUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $32,200 · OtherUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITYVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS: $27,008 · OtherVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS+1 more: $7,500 · OtherMonument of the Americas Inc: $108,300 · Arts & CultureMonument of the America…TUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTUACAHN CENTER FOR THE …ENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC: $55,193 · InternationalENGAGE NOW …INTERWEAVE SOLUTIONS: $8,000 · InternationalINTERWEAVE …WASATCH COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUN: $21,000 · EducationWASATCH C…Help Start Education Foundation: $18,699 · EducationHelp Star…Launching Leaders Worldwide Inc: $17,100 · EducationLaunching…Wasatch Community Foundation: $35,100 · PhilanthropyCare for Life Inc: $5,500 · PhilanthropyHUMANITY'S TEAM: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$346,674Arts & Culture$133,300International$63,193Education$56,799Philanthropy$40,600Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMonument of the Americas Inc: $108,300 over 4y, 10% of budgetENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC: $55,193 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWasatch Community Foundation: $35,100 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetTUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASATCH COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUN: $21,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHelp Start Education Foundation: $18,699 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetLaunching Leaders Worldwide Inc: $17,100 over 2y, 33% of budgetINTERWEAVE SOLUTIONS: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCare for Life Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.6% 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 Monument of the Americas Inc ↗
  • Who funds ENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Wasatch Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds WASATCH COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUN ↗
  • Who funds Help Start Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Launching Leaders Worldwide Inc ↗
  • Who funds HUMANITY'S TEAM ↗
  • Who funds INTERWEAVE SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds Care for Life Inc ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of UtahUT13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Utah · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 James W and Carolyn O Ritchie Supporting Organization funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James W and Carolyn O Ritchie Supporting Organization. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to James W and Carolyn O Ritchie Supporting Organization through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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