· Private foundation
May Ellen & Gerald Ritter Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $327k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUILD ON INC | $105,000 |
| ALFRED E SMITH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MUSIC THAT HEALS INC | $72,480 |
| HASSENFELD CHILDRENS HOSPITAL AT NYU LANGONE | $50,000 |
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| BIRCH FAMILY SERVICES INC | $30,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| ST MARY'S CHURCH | $25,000 |
| THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES BROOKLYN & QUEENS | $20,000 |
| FUTURES IN EDUCATION | $15,000 |
| FUTURES AND OPTIONS INC | $10,000 |
| PACE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| STAMFORD POLICE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BABE RUTH BASEBALL OF STAMFORD INC | $7,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $288k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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
BUILDON INC7× · 2018–2024 · $434k · revenue +27%- TSThe Stamford Hospital6× · 2018–2024 · $350k · revenue +49%
- NLNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS2× · 2018–2019 · $250k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- NLNYU LANGONEone grant, 2022 · $50k
- AEALFRED E SMITH MEMORIAL FUNDone grant, 2021 · $50k
- TMTHE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITYone grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue -89%
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
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.
The foundation, a subsidiary of new york university, fosters legal education and research at new york university's school of law by awarding scholarships, making grants for educational purposes related to law, and supporting programs of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Futures in Education and the most unlike its peers is Long Ridge Fire Company Inc. 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 30 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 77 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 MUSIC THAT HEALS INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDON INC ↗
- Who funds The Stamford Hospital ↗
- Who funds NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS FOOD PANTRIES AND SHELTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BIRCH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STAMFORD PEACE YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDLING ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GRACIE MANSION CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE WATER TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FUTURES IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds DERMATOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS BY WARREN RETRIEVERS ↗
- Who funds AHRC NEW YORK CITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Norwich University ↗
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: The Lazard Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Victoria Loconsolo Foundation Inc · East Coast Energy Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Verizon Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 May Ellen & Gerald Ritter 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.
- Norwich University — 4% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- The Stamford Hospital — 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.