· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SEEING EYE | $15,000 |
| SERENITY STABLES COMBAT TO CALM | $3,000 |
| TESS MCINTYRE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| COURTHOUSE DOGS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| SEATTLE ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| THE ELEVENTH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE INC | $2,750 |
| REDROVER | $2,500 |
| NEIGHBOR GOOD | $2,500 |
| SECOND CALL THOROUGHBRED ADOPTION AND PLACEMENT INC | $2,500 |
| CAUSE 4 PAWS PET FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| WISKERS RESCUE INC | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION INC | $2,250 |
| MADISON COMMUNITY CATS | $1,500 |
| LUNCH BREAK | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 48% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Ritchie-Kirk Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +49% since the first grant, against -26% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- TSTHE SEEING EYE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +52%
- MCMONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA7× · 2017–2023 · $57k · revenue +104%
- SCSECOND CALL THOROUGHBRED ADOPTION AND PLACEMENT IN8× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- SPSPECIAL PEOPLE UNITED TO RIDE INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -26%
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.
Safe rescue saves feline lives by taking in homeless cats, giving them the care they need, finding them loving homes, and supporting their human companions. we do this because we believe each cat has inherent value and that humans and…
At Animal Samaritans we champion compassion and respect for all living creatures, with a primary focus on dogs, cats, and the people who love them. We view pets not merely as animals, but as members of our families. As their guardians and…
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.
Improving the lives of animals by fostering the human-animal bond.
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Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
To champion homeless cats and dogs who are healthy or treatable in the quest to find their forever homes and engage with our community to provide responsible pet ownership reducing future generations of homeless animals.
The mission of the SPCA of Tompkins County is to protect companion animals. We are a no-kill shelter dedicated to preventing animal cruelty and overpopulation. We promote responsible pet stewardship by providing education, counseling and…
Silicon valley pet project (svpp) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to saving local at-risk shelter pets through rescue, community involvement and education.
The animal haven's misson is to provide a temporary, safe, caring and humane refuge for homeless dogs and cats and place these animals in quality adoptive homes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Animal Nations Dba Redrover and the most unlike its peers is Special People United to Ride Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 20 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 THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA ↗
- Who funds SECOND CALL THOROUGHBRED ADOPTION AND PLACEMENT IN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAUSE4PAWS PET FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER ↗
- Who funds Courthouse Dogs Foundation ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MADISON COMMUNITY CATS ↗
- Who funds LUNCH BREAK INC ↗
- Who funds WHISKERS RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL PEOPLE UNITED TO RIDE INC ↗
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: Network for Good · 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 Ritchie-Kirk Foundation Inc 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.
- Lunch Break Inc — 4% 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.