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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 FY2025still arriving
89
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$92M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$94MInternational$47MEnvironment$39MEducation$32MFood & Nutrition$24MHealth$23MCommunity Improvement$11MEmployment$9.5MOther$0
02FY2025 · 89 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k48 grants · $4.2M
  • $250k+36 grants · $150M
$100,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$2.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A KHMER BUDDHIST FOUNDATION$91,808,000
WINDWARD FUND$10,000,000
FOOD FOR EDUCATION$5,000,000
INKOMOKO$5,000,000
PROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN (SANKU)$3,000,000
COVAAGUA$3,000,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000,000
SMARTSTART$3,000,000
WE CARE SOLAR$3,000,000
MAFISA COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION TRUST LTD$2,500,000
ROCKET LEARNING FOUNDATION$2,500,000
UJAMAA DBA MANASSEH'S CHILDREN$2,000,000
ONE HEART WORLDWIDE$2,000,000
KHEYTI INC$2,000,000
TENDERLOIN COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT (TLCBD)$1,500,000
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.

US giving: 90% of grant dollars ($284M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($33M) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $13.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $3.0M → 22%SERVICES IMMIGRATION RIGHTS & EDUCATION NETWORK (SIREN): $50k → 8%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $500 → 9%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF REDLANDS: $50k → 14%UNITED SIKHS: $103 → 13%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $20 → 16%ONE HEART WORLDWIDE: $2.0M → 16%HANDS ON HARTFORD: $100 → 11%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $25 → 17%KITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER (KIAC): $500 → 10%ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUCCESS: $50k → 7%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $500k → 22%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF REDLANDS: $25k → 14%THINK OF US: $2.5M → 14%ONE HEART WORLDWIDE: $100k → 16%BEARINGS BIKE WORKS: $50k → 13%UNITED HELP UKRAINE: $50 → 8%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $40k → 7%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $250 → 9%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $1k → 7%MAMATOTO VILLAGE: $50k → 14%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $773 → 7%MY NEW RED SHOES: $50k → 7%CENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS: $50k → 10%MY NEW RED SHOES: $40k → 7%CENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES & IMMIGRANTS (CERI): $25k → 10%TARJIMLY: $100k → 8%MY NEW RED SHOES: $250 → 7%CENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS (CERI): $515 → 10%SHE SHOULD RUN: $220k → 14%THORN: $51 → 14%CENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS (CERI): $500 → 10%THORN: $22 → 14%SHE SHOULD RUN: $621 → 14%CENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS (CERI): $500 → 10%SAVELIFE FOUNDATION: $750k → 17%CENTER FOR YOUNG WOMENS DEVELOPMENT DBA YOUNG WOMENS FREEDOM CENTER: $50k → 10%SAVELIFE FOUNDATION: $750k → 17%SAVELIFE FOUNDATION USA: $500k → 17%THE CITY EATS: $25k → 10%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $2.0M → 17%SOUL TRAK OUTDOORS: $50k → 14%K TO COLLEGE DBA SUPPLYBANKORG: $6k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $50k → 10%MARY ELIZABETH INN: $500 → 10%LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $101 → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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Beyond the US: 10% of all-years giving ($33M)

19 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$7.1M · 9 grants
United Kingdom$3.6M · 3 grants
Rwanda$3.5M · 2 grants
Zimbabwe$3.1M · 4 grants
South Africa$3.0M · 1 grant
Kenya$2.7M · 4 grants
Zambia$2.5M · 1 grant
Singapore$1.3M · 3 grants
Cameroon$1.0M · 2 grants
Brazil$600k · 2 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$98M · 82 repeat orgs$203M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

82 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 62 since wound down; 54 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
183

Total granted

$98M
$68M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
0%

Still filing today

83%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MC
    Mercy Corps
    3× · 2021–2023 · $5.0M · revenue +5%
  • LF
    LUMINOS FUND
    3× · 2022–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +79%
  • HL
    HEALTHY LEARNERS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +32% · 36% of their budget

Funded once

  • WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $20M · revenue -40%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $8.0M · revenue -72%
  • CI
    COMMONLIT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3.5M · revenue 0%
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.

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Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
3
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
Ffwd

FFWD accelerates the growth of technology nonprofits by providing financial and human capital to help scale technology solutions for education, environmental, health, and human rights issues.

Philanthropy
6
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
7
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
8
Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services
9
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
10
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
11
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
12
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Think of Us; the most unlike its peers is Bill Nelson Memorial Foundation. 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

239 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. 239 of the 328 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
238/239
Grantees still filing
119/239
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

A KHMER BUDDHIST FOUNDATION: $91,808,000 · OtherA KHMER BUDDHIST FOUNDATIONMYAGRO FARMS: $6,500,000 · Other+112 more: $71,149,298 · Other+112 moreWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $20,000,000 · InternationalWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTEINKOMOKO: $5,237,958 · InternationalINKOMOKOMercy Corps: $5,000,000 · InternationalMercy CorpsKIVA MICROFUNDS: $5,000,000 · InternationalKIVA MICROFUNDSBRIDGES TO PROSPERITY INC: $3,500,000 · InternationalSPARK MICROGRANTS INC: $3,300,000 · InternationalCOVA AGUA: $3,100,000 · InternationalLwala Community Alliance: $3,000,250 · InternationalThe Nudge Foundation: $3,000,000 · InternationalEARTHENABLE INC: $2,500,000 · InternationalKHEYTI INC: $2,500,000 · InternationalEducate: $2,500,000 · International+14 more: $13,163,240 · International+14 moreSAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $8,000,000 · EducationLUMINOS FUND: $3,600,126 · EducationCOMMONLIT INC: $3,500,000 · EducationDIGITAL GREEN FOUNDATION: $2,600,000 · EducationRocket Learning Foundation: $2,500,000 · Education+10 more: $1,039,837 · EducationWE CARE SOLAR: $3,600,000 · HealthNOORA HEALTH: $3,500,520 · HealthSUPPORTING INITIATIVES TO REDISTRIBUTE UNUSED MEDICINE - SIRUM: $3,500,000 · HealthGLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC: $3,000,021 · HealthIntegrate Health Inc: $2,500,250 · HealthAMANI GLOBAL WORKS: $2,000,000 · HealthMEDIC MOBILE INC: $2,000,000 · Health+6 more: $900,051 · HealthSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $3,500,000 · Human ServicesTHINK OF US: $2,500,000 · Human ServicesONE HEART WORLDWIDE: $2,100,000 · Human ServicesSAVELIFE FOUNDATION USA: $2,000,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $2,000,000 · Human Services+18 more: $1,111,409 · Human ServicesWINDWARD FUND: $10,000,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND: $750,000 · Environment+4 more: $168,954 · EnvironmentFOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000,000 · Food & NutritionAcceso Impact Inc: $3,600,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $50,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$169,457,298International$71,801,448Education$21,239,963Health$21,000,842Human Services$13,211,409Environment$10,918,954Food & Nutrition$8,650,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $20,000,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $8,000,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMYAGRO FARMS: $6,500,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetMercy Corps: $5,000,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetKIVA MICROFUNDS: $5,000,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetLUMINOS FUND: $3,600,126 over 3y, 24% of budgetAcceso Impact Inc: $3,600,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetNOORA HEALTH: $3,500,520 over 2y, 41% of budgetSUPPORTING INITIATIVES TO REDISTRIBUTE UNUSED MEDICINE - SIRUM: $3,500,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetCOMMONLIT INC: $3,500,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetBRIDGES TO PROSPERITY INC: $3,500,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $3,500,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetHEALTHY LEARNERS INC: $3,500,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetSPARK MICROGRANTS INC: $3,300,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetLwala Community Alliance: $3,000,250 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetCODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC: $3,000,047 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetGLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC: $3,000,021 over 1y, 26% of budgetGENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INC: $3,000,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetThe Nudge Foundation: $3,000,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetIMAGINE WORLDWIDE: $3,000,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetDIGITAL GREEN FOUNDATION: $2,600,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetIntegrate Health Inc: $2,500,250 over 2y, 45% of budgetEARTHENABLE INC: $2,500,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetRocket Learning Foundation: $2,500,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetKHEYTI INC: $2,500,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetTHINK OF US: $2,500,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetEducate: $2,500,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetPIVOT WORKS INC: $2,100,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetSTRONGMINDS INC: $2,100,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetHUMANITARIAN OPENSTREETMAP TEAM UNITED STATES INC: $2,000,046 over 2y, 38% of budgetAMANI GLOBAL WORKS: $2,000,000 over 2y, 73% of budgetID INSIGHT INC: $2,000,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetCENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIC LIFE: $2,000,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMEDIC MOBILE INC: $2,000,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetSAVELIFE FOUNDATION USA: $2,000,000 over 2y, 72% of budgetNorth of MarketTenderloin Community Benefit Corporation: $2,000,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetMUSO INC: $2,000,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSEMILLA NUEVA: $1,600,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetBRAC USA INC: $1,000,023 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSANERGY INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetAVENUE GREENLIGHT: $875,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $750,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAISHA MEDS INC: $600,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetWITHIN REACH INC: $600,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetNEXLEAF ANALYTICS: $500,051 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetROOT CAPITAL INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Mulago FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…Dovetail Impact Found…Skoll FundJewish Community Fede…The Skoll FoundationMarin Community Found…The James Irvine Foun…ImpactassetsincThe William & Flora H…The Ray and Tye Noord…
Mulago FoundationNY66.3× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • Delaware Futures Inc: 78% of income from government
  • Groundworks Collaborative Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont: 31% of income from government
  • Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future: 17% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Moore Free Library: 12% of income from government
  • Root Capital Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest: 4% of income from government
  • The Campbell Institute: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
67report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 Rippleworks Inc?

Find your warmest path to Rippleworks Inc 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 328 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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