California · Private foundation
Rippleworks Inc
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.
- $154M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 89
- Grants FY2025
- 78
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $91,808,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 90
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5B
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations Rippleworks Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31M 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 | 74 | $144M | 73% |
| FY2024 | 78 | $40M | 64% |
| FY2023 | 90 | $53M | 68% |
| FY2022 | 76 | $38M | 63% |
| FY2021 | 73 | $6.5M | 86% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $6.5M | 96% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $11M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Resources Institute | $20,000,000 | 1 | 6% |
| San Francisco State University Foundation | $8,000,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Myagro Farms | $6,500,000 | 3 | 28% |
| Inkomoko | $5,237,958 | 1 | n/a |
| Mercy Corps | $5,000,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Food for Education Foundation Inc | $5,000,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Luminos Fund | $3,600,126 | 3 | 24% |
| We Care Solar | $3,600,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Acceso Impact Inc | $3,600,000 | 2 | 27% |
| Noora Health | $3,500,520 | 2 | 41% |
Show all 237 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 82 recipients with no EIN on record ($140M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rippleworks Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 21 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Mulago Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Dovetail Impact Foundation (Fka David Weekley Family Foundation) · Skoll Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Skoll Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation
How this is measured
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About Rippleworks Inc
- How much does Rippleworks Inc give?
- Rippleworks Inc reported 89 grants totaling $153,837,539 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 90 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Rippleworks Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (30%), International (15%), Environment (12%).
- Who are Rippleworks Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: World Resources Institute ($20M), San Francisco State University Foundation ($8.0M), Myagro Farms ($6.5M).
- Does Rippleworks Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rippleworks Inc 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 Rippleworks Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mulago Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Rippleworks Inc based?
- Rippleworks Inc is based in CA.
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