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Ricochet Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

International$59kEnvironment$40kPublic Benefit$21kHuman Services$21kEducation$18kArts & Culture$16kFood & Nutrition$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$779k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIVIC FORUM$15,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
TUSK$10,000
RURAL WEST COMMUNITIES FUND$5,000
AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST$1,000
GEMS$1,000
JOHN MUIR LAND TRUST$500
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 (FY21–22, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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%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
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
MN
NY
MA
IN
RI
CA
VA
AZ
NC
DC
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$192k · 17 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
13

Total granted

$192k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
-4%

Still filing today

59%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationArts & 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

  • 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

  • C
    CFWNC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • DI
    DEMOCRACY INNOVATION FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • VL
    VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
2
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.

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3
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation

The conservation fund is in the business of conservation, creating innovative solutions that drive nature-based action for climate protection, sustainable economies and vibrant communities.

Environment
4
Rainforest Trust

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

International
5
Rainforest Alliance Holding 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.

Environment
6
National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports
7
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
8
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
9
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
10
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
11
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.

Environment
12
Amazon Conservation Team

The amazon conservation team (act) partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; 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

22 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. 22 of the 39 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
11/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TUSK: $40,000 · OtherTUSKCIVIC FORUM: $15,000 · OtherCIVIC FORUMIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCFWNC: $10,000 · OtherCFWNCDEMOCRACY INNOVATION FUND: $10,000 · OtherDEMOCRACY INNOVATION FUNDRURAL WEST COMMUNITIES FUND: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherKCTS 9 (PUBLIC TV): $5,000 · OtherVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC+13 more: $29,556 · Other+13 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC: $22,000 · InternationalInternational Res…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $18,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRO…ROOT CAPITAL INC: $7,000 · InternationalROOT CAPITAL INC+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $26,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLI…SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB …THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $3,000 · EnvironmentTHE LAND TRU…+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES…CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNI…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $3,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY: $3,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY…DROPPING DIMES FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesBig League Impact Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesFOOD LIFELINE: $11,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $7,000 · Food & NutritionBROWN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Other$144,556International$48,500Environment$34,500Philanthropy$26,000Human Services$21,000Food & Nutrition$18,000Community Improvement$15,000

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 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 budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROOT CAPITAL INC: $7,000 over 3y, 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 budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetJohn Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust: $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.

  • 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 CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ROOT CAPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BAINBRIDGE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY ↗
  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds John Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust ↗

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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Root Capital Inc: 9% 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, 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 39 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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