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Ridge Road Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$734k
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$872kPublic Benefit$696kArts & Culture$498kEducation$374kCivil Rights$273kCommunity Improvement$243kPhilanthropy$181kHuman Services$130kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k38 grants · $112k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $173k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $450k
$3,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WENTACHEE VALLEY MUSEUM$175,000
RURAL DEMOCRACY INITIATIVEHEARTLAND FUND$125,000
TOWN HALL ASSOCIATION$100,000
DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION$50,000
CLEAN ENERGY TRANSITION INSTITUTE$42,500
MOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND$40,000
STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT$30,000
RURAL PEOPLE'S PLATFORM$25,000
THE ALASKA CURRENT$15,000
RURAL ORGANIZINGORG EDUCATION FUND$10,000
RURAL URBAN BRIDGE INITIATIVE (VIA APPALACHIAN PEACE EDUCATION CENTER)$10,000
NORTHWEST HARVEST$9,000
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION$7,500
WENATCHEE RIVER INSTITITUE$6,100
CHELAN-DOUGLAS TRUST$6,000
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 (FY17–25, $152k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OKANOGAN COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $2k → 17%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $500 → 9%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $500 → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $300 → 9%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $250 → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $250 → 9%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $250 → 9%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $250 → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $250 → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $250 → 9%PROGRAM FOR EARLY PARENT SUPPORT: $250 → 9%PROGRAM FOR EARLY PARENT SUPPORT: $250 → 9%PROGRAM FOR EARLY PARENT SUPPORT: $250 → 9%PROGRAM FOR EARLY PARENT SUPPORT: $150 → 9%POWERFUL VOICES: $250 → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE: $100k → 9%POWERFUL VOICES: $20k → 9%POWERFUL VOICES: $15k → 9%SPACE BETWEEN: $500 → 9%REAL CHANGE: $2k → 9%REAL CHANGE: $2k → 9%SPACE BETWEEN: $500 → 9%SPACE BETWEEN: $500 → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $2k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $1k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $1k → 9%REAL CHANGE: $1k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $500 → 9%FULL LIFE CARE: $500 → 9%FULL LIFE CARE: $250 → 9%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

AK
NH
WA
ID
WI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 117 repeat orgs$801k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

117 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 85 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117
69

Total granted

$2.7M
$526k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+33%

Still filing today

71%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsArts & 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

  • CS
    CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +153%
  • SL
    STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT
    6× · 2020–2025 · $158k · revenue +86%
  • CL
    CHELAN-DOUGLAS LAND TRUST
    6× · 2017–2025 · $141k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • BB
    BYRD BARR PLACE
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -16%
  • BM
    BLACK MALE VOTER PROJECT EF INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • TD
    THE DEMOCRACY CAPACITY PROJECT ( NEO PHILANTHROPY)
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment
2
Spark Northwest

Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…

Environment
3
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
4
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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5
Washington Progress Fund

Washington Progress Fund is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington state supported by a network of committed donors. WPF envisions a Washington state where government serves the public interest and we all…

Philanthropy
6
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
7
Invest in Washington Now Campaign

Advocate for tax policy in Washington State

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8
Washington Wild

Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Animals
9
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
10
Washingtonians for Public Banking

Washingtonians for Public banking promotes education and civic engagement on public banking and banking reform within Washington state. The organization organizes, educates, and advocates for the establishment of public banking, and…

Community Improvement
11
Economic Opportunity Institute

Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.

Community Improvement
12
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Organizing Empowerment Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sahar Education. 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

128 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. 128 of the 207 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)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
124/128
Grantees still filing
87/128
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RURAL DEMOCRACY INITIATIVEHEARTLAND FUND: $250,000 · OtherRURAL DEMOCRACY INITIATIVEHEARTLAND FUNDCLIMATE SOLUTIONS: $240,000 · OtherCLIMATE SOLUTIONSWENTACHEE VALLEY MUSEUM: $175,000 · OtherWENTACHEE VALLEY MUSEUMWINNING JOBS NARRATIVE ( MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT): $75,000 · OtherBYRD BARR PLACE: $100,000 · OtherBYRD BARR PLACEMOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND: $60,000 · Other+128 more: $787,515 · Other+128 moreClean Energy Transition Institute: $112,500 · EducationClean Energy T…HIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC: $106,100 · EducationHIGH MOUNTAIN …Giddens School: $78,000 · EducationGiddens SchoolTHE BUSH SCHOOL: $60,600 · EducationTHE BUSH SCHOO…College Success Foundation: $38,750 · EducationCollege Succes…WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 · Education+13 more: $54,000 · Education+13 moreCHELAN-DOUGLAS LAND TRUST: $141,250 · EnvironmentCHELAN-DOUGLAS…Fuse Innovation Fund: $121,000 · EnvironmentFuse Innovatio…Sightline Institute: $65,500 · EnvironmentSightline Inst…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $16,500 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $15,500 · Environment+17 more: $103,200 · Environment+17 moreWashington Progress Alliance: $103,000 · Community ImprovementWashington…Rural Peoples Platform: $92,500 · Community ImprovementRural Peop…Alaska Progressive Donor Table: $47,500 · Community ImprovementAlaska Pro…Win Win Network: $35,000 · Community ImprovementWin Win Ne…Seattle Good Business Network DBA Good Business Network of Washington: $30,000 · Community ImprovementSeattle Go…+4 more: $16,350 · Community ImprovementTown Hall Association: $223,500 · Arts & CultureWENATCHEE RIVER INSTITUTE: $12,200 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $8,050 · Arts & CultureSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $157,500 · Public BenefitONEAMERICA: $39,500 · Public BenefitTHE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER: $26,500 · Public BenefitBLACK MALE VOTER PROJECT EF INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND INC: $40,000 · Civil RightsWashington Community Alliance: $27,500 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $25,000 · Civil RightsNew Hampshire Democracy Fund: $20,000 · Civil RightsThe Washington Bus Education Fund: $12,500 · Civil Rights+1 more: $2,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,687,515Education$472,950Environment$462,950Community Improvement$324,350Arts & Culture$243,750Public Benefit$223,500Civil Rights$177,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetCLIMATE SOLUTIONS: $240,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetTown Hall Association: $223,500 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $157,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHELAN-DOUGLAS LAND TRUST: $141,250 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetFuse Innovation Fund: $121,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetClean Energy Transition Institute: $112,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetHIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC: $106,100 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetWashington Progress Alliance: $103,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetBYRD BARR PLACE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRural Peoples Platform: $92,500 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetGiddens School: $78,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSightline Institute: $65,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BUSH SCHOOL: $60,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK MALE VOTER PROJECT EF INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlaska Progressive Donor Table: $47,500 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetONEAMERICA: $39,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCollege Success Foundation: $38,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPowerful Voices: $35,250 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetWin Win Network: $35,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSeattle Good Business Network DBA Good Business Network of Washington: $30,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $29,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWashington Community Alliance: $27,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER: $26,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hampshire Democracy Fund: $20,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $18,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $16,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION NW: $15,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUPPER VALLEY MEND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCLEAN AND PROSPEROUS AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $12,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Washington Bus Education Fund: $12,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWENATCHEE RIVER INSTITUTE: $12,200 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGrist Magazine Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORKMONEY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL VOICE: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON BUSINESS ALLIANCE FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $9,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE: $9,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Read: $8,050 over 8y, 0.2% 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 CLIMATE SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds Town Hall Association ↗
  • Who funds STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds CHELAN-DOUGLAS LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Fuse Innovation Fund ↗
  • Who funds Clean Energy Transition Institute ↗
  • Who funds HIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Washington Progress Alliance ↗
  • Who funds BYRD BARR PLACE ↗
  • Who funds Rural Peoples Platform ↗
  • Who funds Giddens School ↗
  • Who funds Sightline Institute ↗
  • Who funds THE BUSH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BLACK MALE VOTER PROJECT EF INC ↗
  • Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Alaska Progressive Donor Table ↗
  • Who funds ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ONEAMERICA ↗
  • Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Powerful Voices ↗
  • Who funds Win Win Network ↗
  • Who funds Seattle Good Business Network DBA Good Business Network of Washington ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN DONORS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Washington Community Alliance ↗
  • Who funds THE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds New Hampshire Democracy Fund ↗

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.

Seattle FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…The Bullitt FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Stolte Family Foundat…Anthony-Maymudes Fami…Gates FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Medina FoundationImpactassetsincUnited Way of King Co…Raikes Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA85.6× affinity65 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · The Bullitt Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · Anthony-Maymudes Family Foundation · Gates Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Medina Foundation · Impactassetsinc · United Way of King County · Raikes 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 Ridge Road Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ridge Road Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
38report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ridge Road Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ridge Road 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 207 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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