California · Private foundation
Ricochet Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $43k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 15
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $779k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Ricochet Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $33k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $48k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $41k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $43k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $44k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $31k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $28k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $26,000 | 6 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $22,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Dropping Dimes Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $18,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Civic Forum | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Food Lifeline | $11,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Voto Latino Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Farmland Trust | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Root Capital Inc | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $26,000 | 6 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $22,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Dropping Dimes Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $18,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Civic Forum | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Food Lifeline | $11,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Voto Latino Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Farmland Trust | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Root Capital Inc | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bainbridge Performing Arts | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Historic Salisbury Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Bainbridge Schools Foundation | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Big League Impact Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| When We All Vote | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| John Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($111k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ricochet Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Ricochet Foundation
- How much does Ricochet Foundation give?
- Ricochet Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $42,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 15 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Ricochet Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (22%), Environment (15%), Public Benefit (8%).
- Who are Ricochet Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: World Wildlife Fund Inc ($26k), International Rescue Committee INC ($22k), Dropping Dimes Foundation Inc ($20k).
- Does Ricochet Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ricochet Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ricochet Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Ricochet Foundation based?
- Ricochet Foundation is based in CA.
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