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Ritchie-Kirk Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
7%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$178k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations Ritchie-Kirk Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsCrime & LegalFood & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$50k7%
FY202315$48k7%
FY202215$99k20%
FY202114$76k14%
FY202012$66k33%
FY20198$44k0%
FY20188$38k25%
FY20177$28kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$210kHealth$139kFood & Nutrition$39kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kCrime & Legal$17kPhilanthropy$17k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Ritchie-Kirk Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Seeing Eye Inc$105,00080%
Monmouth County Spca$56,50070%
Second Call Thoroughbred Adoption and Placement In$28,00083%
National Disaster Search Dog Foundation$24,50080%
Cause4paws Pet Food Bank$21,00082%
United Animal Nations Dba Redrover$21,00050%
Tess McIntyre Foundation Inc$17,0004n/a
Courthouse Dogs Foundation$17,00049%
Seattle Animal Shelter Foundation$13,00031%
The Humane Society for Seattleking County$12,00020%
Madison Community Cats$8,00036%
Lunch Break Inc$4,00030%
Whiskers Rescue Inc$2,50011%
Special People United to Ride Inc$2,00013%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($115k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ritchie-Kirk Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Seeing Eye Inc: $105,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMonmouth County Spca: $56,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSecond Call Thoroughbred Adoption and Placement In: $28,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetNational Disaster Search Dog Foundation: $24,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCause4paws Pet Food Bank: $21,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetUnited Animal Nations Dba Redrover: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCourthouse Dogs Foundation: $17,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetSeattle Animal Shelter Foundation: $13,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Humane Society for Seattleking County: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMadison Community Cats: $8,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetLunch Break Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWhiskers Rescue Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSpecial People United to Ride Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Network for GoodDC8.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · 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.

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About Ritchie-Kirk Foundation Inc

How much does Ritchie-Kirk Foundation Inc give?
Ritchie-Kirk Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ritchie-Kirk Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (47%), Health (31%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
Who are Ritchie-Kirk Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Seeing Eye Inc ($105k), Monmouth County Spca ($57k), Second Call Thoroughbred Adoption and Placement In ($28k).
Does Ritchie-Kirk Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ritchie-Kirk Foundation 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 Ritchie-Kirk Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Ritchie-Kirk Foundation Inc based?
Ritchie-Kirk Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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