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Richard Riney Family Foundation at a glance

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Richard Riney Family Foundation

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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$979k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$5.2MPhilanthropy$2.0MHealth$1.8MAnimals$1.6MArts & Culture$605kYouth Development$417kPublic Safety & Disaster$367kRecreation & Sports$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $235k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
$135,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARY INSTITUTE AND SAINT LOUIS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL (MULTIPLE DONATIONS)$979,077
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$500,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY GREATER ILLINOIS CHAPTER$135,000
CITY OF LADUE FIRE DEPARTMENT$50,000
CITY OF LADUE POLICE DEPARTMENT$50,000
KNOCK ON WOOD FOUNDATION$25,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $175k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $30k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
MO
OK
GA
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 12 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +90% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
32

Total granted

$8.0M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
+44%

Still filing today

33%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $525k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPublic Safety & DisasterAnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • MI
    Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +90%
  • Cornell University
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +46%
  • TS
    THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $975k · revenue +146%

Funded once

  • BM
    BNY MELLON CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $1.3M
  • SL
    ST LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION (MULTIPLE DONATIONS)
    one grant, 2022 · $600k
  • CC
    CHURCHILL CENTER & SCHOOL (MULTIPLE DONATIONS)
    one grant, 2019 · $350k
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
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
2
St Lukes Episcopal-Presbyterian Hospitals

We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.

Health
3
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
4
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
5
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
6
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University, VUMC cultivates distinguished research and educational…

Health
9
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
10
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
11
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
12
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Police Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The John & Patty Mcenroe Foundation. 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

24 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. 24 of the 48 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BNY MELLON CHARITABLE FUND: $1,336,152 · OtherBNY MELLON CHARITABLE FUNDRANKEN JORDAN PEDIATRIC BRIDGE HOSPITAL (MULTIPLE DONATIONS): $897,750 · OtherRANKEN JORDAN PEDIATRIC BRIDGE HOSPITAL (MULTIPLE…ST LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION (MULTIPLE DONATIONS): $600,000 · OtherST LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION (MULTIPLE DONATIONS)ST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $514,600 · OtherST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITALLITTLE BIT FOUNDATION (MULTIPLE DONATIONS): $392,350 · OtherLITTLE BIT FOUNDATION (MULTIPLE DONATIONS)CHURCHILL CENTER & SCHOOL (MULTIPLE DONATIONS): $350,000 · OtherCHURCHILL CENTER & SCHOOL (MULTIPLE DONATIONS)UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS (MULTIPLE DONATIONS): $200,000 · OtherNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY GREATER ILLINOIS CHAPTER: $185,000 · Other+24 more: $841,611 · Other+24 moreMary Institute and St Louis Country Day School: $3,108,930 · EducationMary Institute and St Louis Country Day Sch…Cornell University: $1,377,981 · EducationCornell UniversityTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $200,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $975,000 · AnimalsTHE SAINT…+2 more: $20,000 · AnimalsMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $500,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $205,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 · Human ServicesSt Louis Police Foundation: $104,813 · Public Safety & DisasterST LOUIS HERO NETWORK: $12,575 · Public Safety & DisasterLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$5,317,463Education$4,689,411Animals$995,000Arts & Culture$505,000Philanthropy$400,000Human Services$225,000Public Safety & Disaster$127,388

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMary Institute and St Louis Country Day School: $3,108,930 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCornell University: $1,377,981 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $975,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $205,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis Police Foundation: $104,813 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $52,645 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JOHN & PATTY MCENROE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS HERO NETWORK: $12,575 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIGHTY OAKES HEART FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM: $5,516 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAGIC HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUINE-ASSISTED THERAPY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2,500 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.

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.

World Wide Technology…Moneta Group Charitab…Edward Jones Foundati…Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
World Wide Technology FoundationMO15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: World Wide Technology Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%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 · 0–20%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Richard Riney Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Richard Riney 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.

    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 48 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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