Ohio · Private foundation
Ridgeway Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $115k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 54
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Ridgeway Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 51 | $115k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $106k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $91k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 54 | $94k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $80k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $80k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $76k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $74k | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | $82,000 | 8 | n/a |
| The Valentine Museum | $42,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Inc | $34,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Maymont Foundation | $30,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Camping and Education Foundation | $28,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Women Helping Women | $20,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Richmond Ballet | $20,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Preservation Association | $20,250 | 9 | 1% |
| Cincinnati Museum Center | $19,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Nature Center | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($215k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ridgeway 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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · William P Anderson Foundation Central Trust · The Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Ruth J & Robert a Conway Foundation Inc · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Robins Foundation
How this is measured
About Ridgeway Foundation
- How much does Ridgeway Foundation give?
- Ridgeway Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $115,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ridgeway Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (41%), Environment (11%), Education (8%).
- Who are Ridgeway Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts ($82k), The Valentine Museum ($42k), Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Inc ($34k).
- Does Ridgeway Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ridgeway Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ridgeway Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation, Johnson Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Ridgeway Foundation based?
- Ridgeway Foundation is based in OH.
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