· Private foundation
Rip 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ideastream | $20,000 |
| Princeton | $5,000 |
| St Pauls Outreach | $5,000 |
| St Pauls | $3,500 |
| Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation | $1,000 |
| Union Theological Seminary | $1,000 |
| St Pauls | $1,000 |
| Native Organizers Alliance | $750 |
| ACLU | $500 |
| Trials 4 Hope | $400 |
| Congregational Library | $250 |
| Cleveland Foodbank | $250 |
| Union Theological Seminary | $250 |
| Exeter | $200 |
| St Pauls Outreach | $150 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 13 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, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPST PAULS COMMUNITY OUTREACH5× · 2020–2024 · $88k · revenue -12% · 36% of their budget
UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue -67%- CCCuyahoga Community College2× · 2020–2021 · $3k
Funded once
- MTMCCORMICK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 22-22148one grant, 2020 · $4k
- WTWinslow Therapeutic Riding Centerone grant, 2021 · $1k
- THThe Hood Squad 2163× · 2022–2024 · $500
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.
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
To create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal justice systems through zealous client-centered advocacy, innovative policy reform and cross-sector community education.
Our fundamental mission is to bring scholarly ideas to the world. we publish books that connect authors and readers across spheres of knowledge to advance and enrich the human conversation. we embrace the highest standards in our…
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
See schedule oohio wesleyan's charter provides that "the university is forever to be conducted on the most liberal principles, accessible to all religious denominations, and designed for the benefit of our citizens in general." in the…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
The toledo alliance for the performing arts exists to sustain a working community of performing artists in our area who perpetuate the experience of superb musical and dance performances and education for all people.
The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 34 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 ST PAULS COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds TRIALS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY WINTER SPORTS ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rip Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rip Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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How do I get to Rip Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Rip 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.
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