How much did RITCHIE-KIRK FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of RITCHIE-KIRK FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

—

2020

food

2021

foodvictims

2022

livesvictimsfood

2023

livesfoodvictims

2024

catcaretakerslivesvictimsfood

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k14 grants · $35k
$10k–50k1 grant · $15k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$265k

Total assets

Largest grants

THE SEEING EYE$15,000
SEATTLE ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION$3,000
POPCORN PARK ZOO$3,000
COURTHOUSE DOGS FOUNDATION$3,000
SERENITY STABLES COMBAT TO CALM$3,000
TESS MCINTYRE FOUNDATION$3,000
THE ELEVENTH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE INC$2,750
SECOND CALL THOROUGHBRED ADOPTION AND PLACEMENT INC$2,500
REDROVER$2,500
NEIGHBOR GOOD$2,500
WISKERS RESCUE INC$2,500
CAUSE 4 PAWS PET FOOD BANK$2,500
NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION INC$2,250
MADISON COMMUNITY CATS$1,500
LUNCH BREAK$1,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 8%. 57% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

RITCHIE-KIRK FOUNDATION INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$442k · 18 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +104% since the first grant, against -28% 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$442k

$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+104%

-28%

Still filing today

44%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther

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

TS
THE SEEING EYE
8× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +9%
MC
MONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA
7× · 2017–2023 · $57k · revenue +104%
SC
SECOND CALL THOROUGHBRED ADOPTION AND PLACEMENT INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +125%

Funded once

SP
SPECIAL PEOPLE UNITED TO RIDE INC
one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -28%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Santa Cruz Co Animal Shelter Foundation

To support santa cruz county animal services authority through education, public awareness, fund raising, support of current projects, and establishment of new projects.

Animals

Meowdog Animal Rescue

At meowdog, our mission is to provide shelter, safety, and medical care to animals in need, as well as to alleviate overcrowding and abuse in shelters due to high population and lack of funding. we rely largely on volunteers, foster…

Animals

Last Day Dog Rescue Inc

Last Day Dog Rescue's mission is to reduce the number of homeless and euthanized pets by rescuing dogs and cats whose lives and/or well-being are at risk. We provide them with basic needs and care and place them with loving families.

Animals

South Jersey Regional Animal Shelter Inc

Provides refuge for homeless and unwanted animals, adoption services for homeless animals, and spay/neuter services.

Animals

Tompkins County Spca

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…

Animals

Moonracer No Kill Animal Rescue

Moonracer No Kill Animal Rescue, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to the rescue, care and rehabilitation of homeless pets in order to find them good and safe homes. We believe that all animals deserve love, dignity, proper care…

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Spay-Neuter Assistance Program Inc

SNAP prevents the suffering and death of companion animals and enriches the human animal bond.

Animals

K9 Battle Buddies Inc

Animal rescue and shelter for dogs and cats providing service qualified dogs to veterans and members qualified at no cost while unqualified dogs and cats are adopted to loving homes

Animals

No Stray Left Behind

dog rescue

Animals

Freedom Ride Rescue

Freedom ride rescue is committed to saving dogs from overcrowded shelters and placing them in loving foster homes until they find their forever families. our mission is to create a no-kill state by rehabilitating and rehoming dogs while…

Animals

Snuggle Pet Rescue

Pet rescue

Animals

Society for Animal Rescue and

Operate true "no-kill" animal sanctuary which provides rehabilitation to abused or abandoned animals.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is Madison Community Cats. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the grantee network

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/9

Grantees still filing

8/9

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$190,000Animals$105,500Human Services$105,000Health$24,500Crime & Legal$17,000Food & Nutrition$4,000

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.

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.

Network for GoodDC8.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · 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 organisation 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.

2024

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4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COURTHOUSE DOGS FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 460577127 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on COURTHOUSE DOGS FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Ritchie-Kirk Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ritchie-Kirk Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

RITCHIE-KIRK FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ritchie-Kirk Foundation Inc?

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RITCHIE-KIRK FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ritchie-Kirk Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph