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Ring Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2022
33
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$5.4MYouth Development$5.1MHealth$3.1MCivil Rights$2.7MEducation$2.5MHuman Services$2.5MCrime & Legal$2.3MHousing & Shelter$630kOther$0
02FY2022 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $525k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $915k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$19k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VENICE FAMILY CLINIC$130,000
ST JOSEPH CENTER$130,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FU$80,000
ACLU$80,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$80,000
HEART OF LOS ANGELES$80,000
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES$80,000
Library Foundation of LA$55,000
ALTASEA$50,000
NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF THE ARTS$50,000
SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER$50,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$50,000
UCLA FOUNDATION$40,000
Western Center on Law Poverty$40,000
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER$40,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $20k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $10k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $500k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $500k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $500k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $500k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $250k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $130k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 38 repeat orgs$635k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2022, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
6

Total granted

$24M
$485k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+34%

Still filing today

74%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH CENTER
    6× · 2017–2022 · $2.4M · revenue +276%
  • VENICE FAMILY CLINIC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $2.4M · revenue +110%
  • HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.6M · revenue +175%

Funded once

  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +108%
  • UF
    UCLA FOUNDATION - CENTENNIAL CAMPAI
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angelesgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue +34%
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
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
2
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
3
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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4
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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5
Los Angeles Conservation Corps

The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.

Employment
6
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
7
South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health
8
Los Angeles Innocence Project Inc

The purpose is to exonerate the wrongly convicted, uncover and remedy past misuse of evidence in the courtroom, and improve the dialogue among stakeholders in the criminal legal system to prevent future injustice.

Crime & Legal
9
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network

Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.

Community Improvement
10
Los Angeles Education Partnership

To advance educational equity. together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.

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11
Los Angeles County Bar Association (Lacba)

Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.

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12
Latino Theater Company

The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is Hidden Valley Music Seminars. 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

37 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. 37 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
30/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MUSIC CENTER: $3,000,000 · OtherTHE MUSIC CENTERACLU: $1,180,000 · OtherACLULOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $530,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKKCRW: $475,000 · OtherKCRWNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $640,000 · OtherNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTERTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $525,000 · OtherTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES+17 more: $1,470,000 · Other+17 moreHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $3,230,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF LOS ANGELES Y…HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $1,580,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES+1 more: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $2,380,000 · HealthVENICE FAMILY…PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $480,000 · HealthPLANNED PAREN…+2 more: $65,000 · HealthEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $1,130,000 · Crime & LegalEVERYTOWN FO…Western Center on Law & Poverty Inc: $890,000 · Crime & LegalWestern Cent…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $700,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POV…+1 more: $25,000 · Crime & LegalST JOSEPH CENTER: $2,380,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH …+3 more: $70,000 · Human ServicesUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,110,000 · EducationUCLA FOUND…THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $965,000 · EducationTHE LIBRAR…CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $95,000 · Education826LA: $90,000 · Education+2 more: $100,000 · EducationHidden Valley Music Seminars: $1,025,000 · Arts & CultureHidden Va…SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $475,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN …NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $475,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL …+2 more: $95,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$7,820,000Youth Development$4,960,000Health$2,925,000Crime & Legal$2,745,000Human Services$2,450,000Education$2,360,000Arts & Culture$2,070,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $3,230,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetST JOSEPH CENTER: $2,380,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $2,380,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $1,580,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $1,130,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,110,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHidden Valley Music Seminars: $1,025,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $965,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetWestern Center on Law & Poverty Inc: $890,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $700,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $640,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $530,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $525,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $480,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $475,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $475,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $150,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCATALYST CALIFORNIA: $110,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budget826LA: $90,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCHIME INSTITUTE: $65,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTIKVAH-ETTA AND LAZEAR ISRAEL CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $65,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY: $45,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNTAIN THEATRE: $45,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetPS ARTS: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHarmony Project: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATH: $10,000 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 HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Hidden Valley Music Seminars ↗
  • Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds Western Center on Law & Poverty Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
  • Who funds CATALYST CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds 826LA ↗
  • Who funds CHIME INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds TIKVAH-ETTA AND LAZEAR ISRAEL CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED ↗
  • Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds FOUNTAIN THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds PS ARTS ↗

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.

California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
California Community FoundationCA16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ring Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ring 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 49 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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