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Ringen Fund Inc 4006-70-44

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.

$477k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$198kEducation$105kCommunity Improvement$50kPhilanthropy$45kHuman Services$40kEnvironment$35kEmployment$30kInternational$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $250k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cambridge in America$100,000
Chagrin Falls Historical Society$60,000
Giving Back Fund Inc$50,000
StartingBloc$40,000
Kent State University Foundation$30,000
Two Foundation$30,000
The Federated Church at Chagrin Falls Ohio$30,000
Land CLE$25,000
Food Strong$25,000
Cleveland Kids Book Bank$20,000
Land Studio Inc$15,000
ReSource Cleveland$14,850
Valley Art Center$10,000
Fevered Dreams Productions$10,000
Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates Inc$5,000
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 (FY23–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Global Cleveland: $50k → 17%ReSource Cleveland: $15k → 17%Judson: $20k → 17%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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$525k · 9 repeat orgs$414k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
14

Total granted

$525k
$227k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

89%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsInternationalEmploymentOther
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

  • CF
    CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2023–2025 · $85k · revenue +16%
  • TF
    TWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE
    2× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +102%
  • CR
    CLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $28k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • GC
    GLOBAL CLEVELAND
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +2%
  • GP
    Global Press Institute
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -53%
  • FO
    Friends Of Raising The Village Incorporated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -18%
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
Literary Cleveland

Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.

Education
2
Cleveland Leadership Center

The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…

Education
3
Cleveland Public Market Corporation

Cleveland public market corporations mission is to preserve the city's public market tradition while making the local food system more accessible, equitable, and diverse.

Community Improvement
4
Greater Cleveland Media Development Corporation

To promote the increase of media production in Northeast Ohio using effective strategies for attraction and workforce development including building an artistic infrastructure through film, achieve increased economic development in…

Philanthropy
5
City Fields

To operate as a community development corporation with the goal to transform disadvantaged neighborhoods through five primary areas: physical revitalization, social revitalization, economic development, neighborhood safety, and leadership…

Community Improvement
6
Cleveland Social Venture Partners

Collaborate Cleveland invests in local changemakers serving women and advancing gender justice in Cleveland while advocating for the long-term change of policies and practices that have historically disadvantaged women.

Philanthropy
7
The Cleveland Foundation

Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.

Philanthropy
8
The City Club Forum Foundation

The city club forum foundation's mission is to support and advance the city club of cleveland's mission to create conversations of consequence that help democracy thrive. we do this in pursuit of our vision of strong,(continued on schedule…

Education
9
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…

Philanthropy
10
Engage Cleveland Inc

Our mission is to attract, engage and retain emerging diverse talent to Greater Cleveland.

Community Improvement
11
Cleveland Historical Society

To discover, to collect, to preserve and to interpret materials and objects germane to the history of Cleveland and the North Shore of Oneida Lake, NY, to sponsor writings, education, publications, and to promote public interest in…

Arts & Culture
12
Cleveland Development Foundation

Developing and improving Cleveland Ohio's civic visions.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resource Cleveland; the most unlike its peers is Startingbloc Nfp. 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

30 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. 30 of the 35 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
14/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Land Cle: $50,000 · Arts & CultureThe Land CleFEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIONS: $35,000 · Arts & CultureFEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIO…Global Press Institute: $30,000 · Arts & CultureGlobal Press InstituteCLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC: $27,500 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND RESTORATION SO…VALLEY ART CENTER INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureVALLEY ART CENTER INCOHIO LOCAL INFORMATIONAL INTIATIVE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureOHIO LOCAL INFORMATIONAL…HISTORIC WAREHOUSE DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF CLEVELAND: $15,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC WAREHOUSE DISTR…DUNHAM TAVERN MUSEUM & GARDENS: $15,000 · Arts & CultureDUNHAM TAVERN MUSEUM & G…+2 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $200,000 · InternationalCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICACHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $85,000 · OtherCHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SO…FEDERATED CHURCH OF CHAGRIN FALLS OHIO: $30,000 · OtherFEDERATED CHURCH OF CHAGRIN…Edwins Leadership and Restaurant: $20,000 · OtherEdwins Leadership and Resta…LAND STUDIO INC: $15,000 · OtherLAND STUDIO INCCOMMUNITY LIFE COLLABORATIVE: $35,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY LIFE COLLABORATIV…FOOD STRONG: $25,000 · OtherFOOD STRONGHAUDENOSAUNEE NATIONALS DEVELO GROUP INC: $10,000 · Other+7 more: $34,400 · Other+7 moreTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $95,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING BA…Friends Of Raising The Village Incorporated: $25,000 · PhilanthropyFriends Of Ra…STARTINGBLOC NFP: $40,000 · EducationSTARTINGBL…KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationKENT STATE…CLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK: $20,000 · EducationCLEVELAND …+1 more: $2,500 · EducationGLOBAL CLEVELAND: $50,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL CL…JUDSON: $20,000 · Human ServicesJUDSONRESOURCE CLEVELAND: $14,850 · Human ServicesRESOURCE …TWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE: $60,000 · Employment
Arts & Culture$222,500International$200,000Other$254,400Philanthropy$120,000Education$92,500Human Services$84,850Employment$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $200,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $95,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $85,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetTWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE: $60,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGLOBAL CLEVELAND: $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetThe Land Cle: $50,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIFE COLLABORATIVE: $35,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetFEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIONS: $35,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetGlobal Press Institute: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC: $27,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetVALLEY ART CENTER INC: $25,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFriends Of Raising The Village Incorporated: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUDSON: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO LOCAL INFORMATIONAL INTIATIVE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHISTORIC WAREHOUSE DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF CLEVELAND: $15,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetDUNHAM TAVERN MUSEUM & GARDENS: $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHAUDENOSAUNEE NATIONALS DEVELO GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO VOTER ADVOCATES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUNITED MSD FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBLAZING RIVER ARTS GROUP INC aka Cleveland Pride Band: $2,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE CHAUTAUQUA LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOHIO HISTORY CONNECTION: $2,500 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.

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.

The Cleveland Foundat…Tecovas Foundation 40…The Lozick Family Fou…John P Murphy Foundat…The Albert B & Audrey…The Char and Chuck Fo…The Swagelok Foundati…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Cleveland FoundationOH22.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Tecovas Foundation 4006-07-42 · The Lozick Family Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Ringen Fund Inc 4006-70-44 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ringen Fund Inc 4006-70-44. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 Ringen Fund Inc 4006-70-44?

    Find your warmest path to Ringen Fund Inc 4006-70-44 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 35 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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