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Ricochet Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$53k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

International$59kEnvironment$40kPublic Benefit$21kHuman Services$21kEducation$18kArts & Culture$16kFood & Nutrition$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$803k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CFWNC$10,000
TUSK$7,500
BROWN UNIVERSITY$5,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$3,000
SF OPERA GUILD$2,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,500
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$1,000
AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DROPPING DIMES FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%DROPPING DIMES FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
NY
MA
IN
RI
CA
VA
AZ
NC
DC
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$181k · 17 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
10

Total granted

$181k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
-4%

Still filing today

59%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +47%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +67%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • DI
    DEMOCRACY INNOVATION FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • SC
    SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -73%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
3
Solidaridad North America

We work throughout the whole supply chain to make sustainability the norm and enable farmers and workers to earn a decent income, produce in balance with nature, and shape their own future.

Environment
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
6
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
7
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

8
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
9
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research

Foundation for food and agriculture research connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.

Food & Nutrition
10
California Agricultural Leadership Found

To enhance the long-term viability of california agriculture through leadership development, which in turn benefits the people and communities that agriculture serves. we grow leaders who make a difference.

Food & Nutrition
11
Isf Advisors Inc

Isf advisors is the leading strategic and financial advisory group committed to mobilizing capital for a more sustainable, equitable, and productive global food system.

Food & Nutrition
12
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Napa Valley and the most unlike its peers is Big League Impact Inc. 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

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TUSK — $30,000 · OtherTUSKIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDEMOCRACY INNOVATION FUND — $10,000 · OtherDEMOCRACY INNOVATION FUNDCFWNC — $10,000 · OtherCFWNCIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherKCTS 9 (PUBLIC TV) — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $4,000 · OtherBAINBRIDGE PERFORMING ARTS — $4,000 · OtherVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · OtherVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC+10 more — $20,556 · Other+10 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC — $22,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $18,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTI…ROOT CAPITAL INC — $7,000 · InternationalROOT CAPITAL INC+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $26,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE…SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FO…THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $3,000 · EnvironmentTHE LAND TRUST…DROPPING DIMES FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesBig League Impact Inc — $1,000 · Human ServicesFOOD LIFELINE — $11,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST — $6,000 · Food & NutritionCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $3,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY — $3,000 · PhilanthropyBROWN UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · Community Improvement
Other$113,556International$48,500Environment$34,000Human Services$21,000Food & Nutrition$17,000Philanthropy$16,000Community Improvement$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDROPPING DIMES FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $18,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE — $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROOT CAPITAL INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAINBRIDGE PERFORMING ARTS — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC SALISBURY FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBig League Impact Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHEN WE ALL VOTE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC
  • Who funds DROPPING DIMES FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds FOOD LIFELINE
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA
  • Who funds VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ROOT CAPITAL INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BAINBRIDGE PERFORMING ARTS
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY
  • Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
  • Who funds HISTORIC SALISBURY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Big League Impact Inc
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
  • Who funds WHEN WE ALL VOTE

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ricochet Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • Root Capital Inc9% of 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
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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