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Richard and Joan Ringoen Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Richard and Joan Ringoen Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$7.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$10MReligion$1.1MInternational$572kArts & Culture$225kYouth Development$126kHuman Services$103kHealth$40kCrime & Legal$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $87k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+2 grants · $8.1M
$3,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$7,094,570
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$976,262
HORIZONS INTERNATIONAL$150,000
MAZATLAN MISSIONS$40,000
YOUNG LIFE FOUNDATION$21,500
CALVARY BIBLE CHURCH$15,000
SUMMIT MINISTRIES$10,000
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION$8,000
OAKS INTERNATIONAL$8,000
BACK2BACK MINISTRIES$6,000
SERVANT PARTNERS$5,000
THE BIBLE PROJECT$4,000
COLSON CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW$4,000
WILD AT HEART$4,000
THE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ATTACHMENT AND TRAUMA NETWORK: $1k → 11%COLORADO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUND: $10k → 12%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 12%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $2k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
KS
AR
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 58 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

58 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
17

Total granted

$11M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+80%

Still filing today

50%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
ReligionHuman ServicesInternationalEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • NC
    NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $8.5M · revenue +48%
  • HI
    Horizons International
    8× · 2017–2024 · $419k · revenue +32%
  • IM
    I2 MINISTRIES
    6× · 2017–2022 · $336k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • CI
    COLORADO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +396%
  • NF
    NICOLAS FUND FOR EDUCATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -47%
  • FD
    FAMILY DYNASTY INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
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
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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2
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
3
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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4
International Commission Inc

Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.

Religion
5
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
6
Timothy Two Project International

Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.

Religion
7
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
8
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
9
Time of Grace Ministry

Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…

Religion
10
Alliance for Transformational Ministry

Enable christian organizations worldwide to initiate and strenghten ministries that lead people to become followers of jesus and transform communities out of cycles of poverty and disease.

Religion
11
Freedom in Christ Ministries

To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.

Religion
12
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agros International; the most unlike its peers is Boulder Suzuki Strings. 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

43 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. 43 of the 80 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/43
Grantees still filing
37/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $8,545,832 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INCRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND: $1,775,566 · PhilanthropyRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NAVIGATORS: $225,000 · OtherTHE NAVIG…Individual grant recipient: $105,300 · OtherIndividua…MAZATLAN MISSIONS: $95,750 · OtherMAZATLAN …YOUNG LIFE FOUNDATION: $77,000 · OtherYOUNG LIF…CALVARY BIBLE CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherSUMMIT MINISTRIES INC: $38,530 · Other+50 more: $420,480 · Other+50 moreI2 MINISTRIES: $336,000 · ReligionInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $31,000 · ReligionBack 2 Back Ministries Inc: $28,000 · ReligionThe Colson Center for Christian Worldview: $20,500 · ReligionBIBLEPROJECT: $17,000 · Religion+6 more: $45,000 · ReligionHorizons International: $419,000 · Human Services+3 more: $15,500 · Human ServicesAGROS INTERNATIONAL: $316,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $38,500 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated: $32,000 · International+1 more: $3,500 · InternationalSERVANT PARTNERS INC: $55,500 · Public BenefitYOUNG LIFE: $43,180 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$10,323,398Other$1,012,060Religion$477,500Human Services$434,500International$390,000Public Benefit$55,500Youth Development$43,180

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 budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $8,545,832 over 2y, 12% of budgetRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND: $1,775,566 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHorizons International: $419,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetI2 MINISTRIES: $336,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetAGROS INTERNATIONAL: $316,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetMAZATLAN MISSIONS: $95,750 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSERVANT PARTNERS INC: $55,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $43,180 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT MINISTRIES INC: $38,530 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $38,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $32,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $31,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBack 2 Back Ministries Inc: $28,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Colson Center for Christian Worldview: $20,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBoulder Treasures Inc: $20,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBIBLEPROJECT: $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCASAS POR CRISTO: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMOTHER HOUSE DBA HAVEN RIDGE: $11,670 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetRise Against Suicide: $11,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDESIRING GOD MINISTRIES: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSET FREE MINISTRIES: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNICOLAS FUND FOR EDUCATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTAND TO REASON: $10,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORLDWIDE DISCIPLESHIP ASSOCIATION: $8,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBOULDER SUZUKI STRINGS: $8,500 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetBOULDER CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER: $8,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNEW MISSION SYSTEMS INC: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $7,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ACCESS FUND: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget3BUILDGLOBAL INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANCHOR GATHERING: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEagle Mount: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENT ENGAGEMENT NETWORK: $1,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSaturate the Sound: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB: $750 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.

  • Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds Horizons International ↗
  • Who funds I2 MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds AGROS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds MAZATLAN MISSIONS ↗
  • Who funds SERVANT PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
  • Who funds Back 2 Back Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Colson Center for Christian Worldview ↗
  • Who funds Boulder Treasures Inc ↗
  • Who funds BIBLEPROJECT ↗
  • Who funds CASAS POR CRISTO ↗
  • Who funds MOTHER HOUSE DBA HAVEN RIDGE ↗
  • Who funds Rise Against Suicide ↗
  • Who funds DESIRING GOD MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds SET FREE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds THE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUND ↗
  • Who funds NICOLAS FUND FOR EDUCATION ↗

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Servant FoundationChristian Community F…The Bolick FoundationCommunity Foundation …The Denver FoundationAEC TrustTyndale House Ministr…Anschutz Family Found…The US Charitable Gif…Texas Instruments Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …
Colorado Gives FoundationCO19.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Bolick Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · AEC Trust · Tyndale House Ministries · Anschutz Family Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 Richard and Joan Ringoen Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard and Joan Ringoen Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 80 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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