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Ralph 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.

$626k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$435k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

70% of Ralph Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Tulsa Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’22
1
’23
3
’24
3
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.2MInternational$198kRecreation & Sports$110kHuman Services$50kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $48k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
  • $250k+1 grant · $435k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$435,000
ST JOSEPH RECREATION FOUNDATION$80,000
NATIONAL PARENTS ORGANIZATION$50,000
UKRAINE TRUSTCHAIN$48,000
Individual grant recipient$6,750
Individual grant recipient$6,250
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 (FY25–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIONAL PARENTS ORGANIZATION: $50k → 8%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
04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 11 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
1/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,035,000 · PhilanthropyTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONMANOFF FOUNDATION: $116,000 · PhilanthropyMANOFF FOUNDATION+1 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyUKRAINE TRUSTCHAIN: $198,000 · InternationalUKRAINE TRUSTC…ST JOSEPH RECREATION FOUNDATION: $100,050 · Recreation & SportsTHE VILLAGE CLUB & PRESERVE INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsNational Parents Organization Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,250 · OtherBroken Oak Animal Sanctuary and Education Center: $5,000 · Other
Philanthropy$1,154,000International$198,000Recreation & Sports$110,050Human Services$50,000Other$25,500

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 budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,035,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUKRAINE TRUSTCHAIN: $198,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMANOFF FOUNDATION: $116,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetST JOSEPH RECREATION FOUNDATION: $100,050 over 2y, 27% of budgetNational Parents Organization Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE VILLAGE CLUB & PRESERVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHighland Park Community Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–15%
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 Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ralph 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 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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