· Private foundation
Ridgewood 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $441k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $134k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALVARY HOSPITAL | $73,960 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $43,960 |
| WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY | $43,960 |
| SARCOMA FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $40,000 |
| CENTRAL NH HOSPICE AND VNA | $40,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE | $36,160 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF | $31,160 |
| YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK | $22,320 |
| ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| CARDINAL HAYES HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| MERCY FIRST | $20,000 |
| INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK | $11,160 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE | $11,160 |
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 (FY24–25, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
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 +19% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 12 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Cornell University5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +46%- CHCALVARY HOSPITAL INC6× · 2017–2025 · $214k · revenue +9%
- SCSKIDMORE COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- LRLakes Region Visiting Nurse Associationone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -11%
- LRLAKES REGION VISITING NURSESone grant, 2024 · $60k
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $60k
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.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 59 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 Cornell University ↗
- Who funds CALVARY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds Lakes Region Visiting Nurse Association ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES ↗
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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ridgewood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ridgewood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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