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Richard J and Georgiann L Ames Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$176k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$137k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$170kAnimals$144kCommunity Improvement$50kFood & Nutrition$6kEducation$5kYouth Development$3kHuman Services$1k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
WI
MI
NY
CT
CA
MO
AZ
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($115k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Ames Construction Charitable FoundationMN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Richard J and Georgiann L Ames Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Richard J and Georgiann L Ames Family 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.

About Richard J and Georgiann L Ames Family Foundation

How much does Richard J and Georgiann L Ames Family Foundation give?
Richard J and Georgiann L Ames Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $176,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Richard J and Georgiann L Ames Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (45%), Animals (38%), Community Improvement (13%).
Who are Richard J and Georgiann L Ames Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Arabian Horse Promotional Fund Inc ($76k), Arabian English Performance Association Inc ($50k), Arabian Western Pleasure Association ($50k).
Does Richard J and Georgiann L Ames Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Richard J and Georgiann L Ames Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ames Construction Charitable Foundation.
Where is Richard J and Georgiann L Ames Family Foundation based?
Richard J and Georgiann L Ames Family Foundation is based in MN.

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 21 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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