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Ralph Boone Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Ralph Boone Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$136k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$586kFood & Nutrition$129kHealth$77kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kEmployment$30kReligion$30kHuman Services$25kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $126k
$16,400
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WALSH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY$30,000
FEDERATED CHURCH$20,000
NORTH VALLEY CAREER AND TECH CENTER$20,000
VALLEY AMBULANCE RESCUE$20,000
Individual grant recipient$16,400
GRAFTON PARKS AND REC FOUNDATION$10,000
LUTHERAN SUNSET HOME$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
NORTHLANDS RESCUE MISSION$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CAVALIER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 10%GRAFTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $40k → 11%CAVALIER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 10%GRAFTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $40k → 11%CAVALIER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 10%GRAFTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $35k → 11%CAVALIER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 10%GRAFTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $35k → 11%CAVALIER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 10%GRAFTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $35k → 11%CAVALIER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 10%WALSH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $30k → 11%CAVALIER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 10%GRAFTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $25k → 11%DRAYTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 10%LUTHERAN SUNSET HOME: $25k → 11%DRAYTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 10%GRAFTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $25k → 11%DRAYTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 10%VALLEY AMBULANCE RESCUE: $20k → 11%DRAYTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 10%NORTH VALLEY CAREER AND TECH CENTER: $20k → 11%DRAYTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 10%GRAFTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $20k → 11%DRAYTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 10%WALSH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $20k → 11%DRAYTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 10%FEDERATED CHURCH: $20k → 11%VALLEY AMBULANCE RESCUE: $20k → 11%GRAFTON FIRE DEPARTMENT: $16k → 11%WALSH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $15k → 11%WALSH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $12k → 11%WALSH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $12k → 11%GRAFTON PARKS AND REC FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%FEDERATED CHURCH: $10k → 11%WALSH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 11%LUTHERAN SUNSET HOME: $10k → 11%WALSH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 11%WALSH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 11%WALSH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 11%HOOPLE COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 11%HOOPLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 11%HOOPLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 11%HOOPLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 11%HOOPLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 11%HOOPLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 11%HOOPLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 11%HOOPLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$925k · 14 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
3

Total granted

$925k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+322%

Still filing today

29%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
EducationHealthPublic BenefitOther
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

  • VA
    VALLEY AMBULANCE & RESCUE SERVICE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +10%
  • LS
    Lutheran Sunset Home
    2× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +6%
  • GE
    GRAFTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +870%

Funded once

  • VH
    VETERAN HONOR FLIGHT OF NDMNgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +322%
  • HF
    HONOR FLIGHT
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRAFTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $255,000 · OtherGRAFTON PUBLIC SCHOOLSWALSH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $128,500 · OtherWALSH COUNTY FOOD PANTRYHOOPLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $115,000 · OtherHOOPLE PUBLIC SCHOOLSDRAYTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $105,000 · OtherDRAYTON PUBLIC SCHOOLSCAVALIER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $105,000 · OtherCAVALIER PUBLIC SCHOOLSLutheran Sunset Home: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $34,150 · Other+10 more: $144,500 · Other+10 moreVALLEY AMBULANCE & RESCUE SERVICE INC: $40,000 · HealthVETERAN HONOR FLIGHT OF NDMN: $5,500 · Public BenefitGRAFTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Education
Other$922,150Health$40,000Public Benefit$5,500Education$5,500

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 budgetVALLEY AMBULANCE & RESCUE SERVICE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetLutheran Sunset Home: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOOPLE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetVETERAN HONOR FLIGHT OF NDMN: $5,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGRAFTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetNORTHLANDS RESCUE MISSION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 VALLEY AMBULANCE & RESCUE SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds Lutheran Sunset Home ↗
  • Who funds HOOPLE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds VETERAN HONOR FLIGHT OF NDMN ↗
  • Who funds GRAFTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHLANDS RESCUE MISSION INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ralph Boone Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ralph Boone Charitable Foundation 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 20 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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