· Private foundation
Risser Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUNKEN GARDENS FOREVER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| READY FOR LIFE | $25,000 |
| POLYWOGS CHARITIES INC | $10,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY SPCA | $10,000 |
| THE THRESHOLDS | $5,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION COUNCIL INC DBA WPBS-TV | $5,000 |
| ZOO NEW YORK AT THOMPSON PARK | $5,000 |
| HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY NY | $2,500 |
| ALL CREATURES BIG AND SMALL | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- RFREADY FOR LIFE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +20%
- PSPlayhouse Square Foundation2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +7%
- HEHOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- SSSEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARYone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -12%
- APACADEMY PREP CENTER OF ST PETERSBURGone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
At the spca serving erie county, our mission is to create a more humane community through education; rescuing, protecting, and enhancing the lives of animals; and nurturing the bond between animals and people.
To provide for the welfare and humane protection, care and treatment of homeless animals through the operation of an animal shelter that rescues, rehabilitates, cares for, spays and neuters, and places homeless pets for adoption.
Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.
Pet pride of new york has been saving homeless cats and matching them with caring adopters since 1977. we operate a no-kill cat sanctuary and adoption center with an on-site veterinary medical center where we shelter and care for cats and…
Committed to the rescue and adoption of animals from shelters, reducing the euthanasia of adoptable pets within our community. using community resources, we will provide and support an adoptive friendly no-kill shelter for rescued animals…
Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f
The humane society of pinellas' mission is to prevent animal homelessness in our community and provide care and assistance to those in need.
The potsdam humane society operates a not-for-profit animal shelter, which provides care and protection to animals in need, including the returning of lost pets to their homes, giving proper medical attention and/or arranging for their…
The mission of sweet dreams senior pet sanctuary is to support elderly individuals who can no longer care for their senior pets by providing a safe and loving home for their cherished companions. the sanctuary offers two primary programs…
Animal house project's mission is to offer comprehensive support to vulnerable animals. this includes rescuing, adopting, and facilitating access to veterinary care and food. through dedicated efforts, innovative solutions and strategic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Emergency Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Thresholds. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SUNKEN GARDENS FOREVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds READY FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY SPCA ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds POLYWOGS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
- Who funds ALL CREATURES BIG AND SMALL INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF ST PETERSBURG ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Francis and Gertrude Levett Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Risser Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Homeless Emergency Project Inc — 15% of income from government
- Seaside Seabird Sanctuary — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.