· Private foundation
Ricochet Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC6× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +47%- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC6× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +67%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- CCFWNCone grant, 2024 · $10k
- DIDEMOCRACY INNOVATION FUNDone grant, 2023 · $10k
- VLVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INCone 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.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
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.
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
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.
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…
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.
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.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
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.
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.
The amazon conservation team (act) partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
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.
- Root Capital Inc: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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