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Riter Family Foundation
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 $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $275k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $110,000 |
| STARBRITE THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CE | $100,000 |
| PROMISE ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| THE MENTORING ALLIANCE | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| HOPE HAVEN OF EAST TEXAS | $25,000 |
| THE FOSTERING COLLECTIVE | $25,000 |
| PATH | $25,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH | $15,000 |
| SIGHTORG | $15,000 |
| GRACE COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BETHESDA HEALTH CLINC | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $453k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +64% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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
- MAMENTORING ALLIANCE7× · 2017–2024 · $380k · revenue +287%
- PAPROMISE ACADEMY7× · 2018–2024 · $370k · revenue +284%
- CACHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- FIFAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVEone grant, 2020 · $150k
- SPST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $110k · revenue -60%
- MLMIRACLE LEAGUE OF TYLERone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.
To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…
Children to love is focused on meeting the needs of the suffering children of the world, providing help and assistance to empower 'the least of these'(matthew 25:40). through education, spiritual teaching, economic support, physical…
To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
Counseling Services offering hope, healing, and restoration to hurting people, marriages, and families using respected therapy practices and solid biblical principles.
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
To strengthen families through parenting classes educational programs, youth programs and referral services for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Children at heart ministries is a family of christian ministries that exists to honor god and build a better world by serving children and strengthening families.
The children's advocacy center of van zandt county is committed to ensuring quality services and support to those children impacted by abuse while also building a future where no child in van zandt county experiences abuse.
Child evangelism fellowship is a bible centered organization composed of born again believers whose purpose is to evangelize children with the gospel of the lord jesus christ and to establish them in the word of god.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Luis Palau Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 28% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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. 33 of the 56 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 MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PROMISE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF TYLER ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds SMITH COUNTY CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP ↗
- Who funds Edify ↗
- Who funds Family Legacy Missions International ↗
- Who funds LIVING ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS ORPHAN CARE NETWORK INC DBA THE FOSTERING COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER DBA PAVE EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SELAH LIFE CHOICES INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO LIFE ↗
- Who funds HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SIGHT ORG ↗
- Who funds TAPKARD INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR KIDS OF EAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Smith County ↗
- Who funds WOMENARY 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: East Texas Communities Foundation · Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · The Rogers Foundation · A S Genecov Foundation · Hibbs Family Foundation · James I Perkins Family Foundation · The Junior League of Tyler Inc · Byers Family Foundation · Bob L Herd Foundation · Etx Successor System · The Louis and Peaches Owen Family Foundation · Wolf Benevolent Tua
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 Riter 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.