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Paul and Nicole Ricci Family Foundation Inc

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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$3.5MSocial Science$504kScience & Tech$213kRecreation & Sports$125kCivil Rights$110kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.3M
$250,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL$1,000,000
WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL$575,000
WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL$500,000
SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL$250,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITYCASBS-$80,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$50,000
USA CYCLING DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $5k → 16%WOODLAND SCHOOL: $100k → 7%GIRLS MIDDLE SCHOOL: $45k → 8%WILDAID: $10k → 10%CAL MATTERS: $33k → 12%SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL: $254k → 20%USA CYCLING DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%PHILLIPS BROOKS SCHOOL: $100k → 7%GIRLS MIDDLE SCHOOL: $30k → 8%SAN FRANCISO BALLET: $25k → 10%CAL MATTERS: $33k → 12%SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL: $250k → 20%USA CYCLING DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%PHILLIPS BROOKS SCHOOL: $50k → 7%GIRLS MIDDLE SCHOOL: $30k → 8%CAL MATTERS: $33k → 12%USA CYCLING DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%PHILLIPS BROOKS SCHOOL: $49k → 7%CAL MATTERS: $10k → 12%USA CYCLING DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%PHILLIPS BROOKS SCHOOL: $30k → 7%USA CYCLING DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%PHILLIPS BROOKS SCHOOL: $30k → 7%WOODLAND SCHOOL: $20k → 7%WOODLAND SCHOOL: $20k → 7%WOODLAND SCHOOL: $20k → 7%PHILLIPS BROOKS SCHOOL-FUND A STUDE: $10k → 7%PHILLIPS BROOKS SCHOOL: $540 → 7%WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL: $1.0M → 7%WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL: $575k → 7%WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL: $500k → 7%WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL: $65k → 7%WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL: $50k → 7%WOODLAND SCHOOL: $35k → 7%WOODLAND SCHOOL: $30k → 7%STANFORD UNIV - CASBS: $90k → 7%STANFORD UNIV - CASBS: $68k → 7%STANFORD UNIV - CASBS: $20k → 7%WOODSIDE SCHOOLS: $20k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.8M · 8 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +94% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$3.8M
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+16%

Still filing today

75%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationSocial ScienceAnimalsArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther

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

  • TP
    THE PHILLIPS BROOKS SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2021 · $260k · revenue +49%
  • WS
    WOODLAND SCHOOL
    4× · 2020–2023 · $225k · revenue +94%
  • UC
    USA CYCLING DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2025 · $125k · revenue +229%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • WS
    WOODSIDE SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • WI
    WILDAID INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +16%

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

04Your field

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.

1
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
2
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

3
The Seven Hills School

The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.

4
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

5
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

6
Westside Neighborhood School

Wns is committed to creating a deeply caring community of lifelong learners that nurtures students from diverse backgrounds to reach their full potential, develop cultural competency, and inspire the world with their curiosity, innovation,…

Education
7
The Chandler School

Chandler's mission is to provide each student with the highest quality and most academically challenging education in a nurturing, balanced and diverse environment. chandler strives to have its students gain a love of learning, a means of…

8
Millennium School of San Francisco

See schedule oto realize the transformative potential of middle school. millennium school believes in developing each student to their fullest potential, this involves providing both a rigorous academic program and a science-based…

Education
9
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences

Crossroads is an independent school for approximately 1,200 students.

Education
10
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
11
The Branson School

To provide an academically exceptional education to students grade 9 through 12 in a warm, supportive, and nurturing environment.

Education
12
Bridges Charter School

Our mission is to educate the whole child using a combination of innovative curriculum and instruction along with social/emotional education embedded in the program. students will be enabled to reach their innate intellectual, creative,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social Science Research Council and the most unlike its peers is The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BENEDICTINE FATHERS OF THE PRIORY — $2,190,000 · OtherBENEDICTINE FATHERS OF THE PRIORYSTANFORD UNIV - CASBS — $317,500 · OtherSTANFORD UNIV - CASBS+3 more — $55,000 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $546,610 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE…THE PHILLIPS BROOKS SCHOOL — $260,000 · EducationTHE PHILLIPS BROOKS SCHOOLWOODLAND SCHOOL — $225,000 · EducationWOODLAND SCHOOLTHE GIRLS' MIDDLE SCHOOL — $105,000 · EducationTHE GIRLS' MIDDLE SCHOOLSOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL — $504,152 · Social ScienceSOCIAL SCIEN…USA CYCLING DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $125,000 · Recreation & SportsCalMatters — $109,999 · Civil RightsWILDAID INC — $10,000 · AnimalsMUSEUM OF SCIENCE — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,562,500Education$1,136,610Social Science$504,152Recreation & Sports$125,000Civil Rights$109,999Animals$10,000Arts & Culture$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $546,610 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL — $504,152 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS BROOKS SCHOOL — $260,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWOODLAND SCHOOL — $225,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUSA CYCLING DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCalMatters — $109,999 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE GIRLS' MIDDLE SCHOOL — $105,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWILDAID INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
  • Who funds THE PHILLIPS BROOKS SCHOOL
  • Who funds WOODLAND SCHOOL
  • Who funds USA CYCLING DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CalMatters
  • Who funds THE GIRLS' MIDDLE SCHOOL
  • Who funds WILDAID INC
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE

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.

Bright Funds FoundationCA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bright Funds Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Paul and Nicole Ricci Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Museum of Science0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Paul and Nicole Ricci Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Paul and Nicole Ricci Family Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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