· Private foundation
Ritt Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| LAKESHORE PLAYERS THEATER | $10,000 |
| STEVE RITTJANET PETERSON TERMINAL | $7,500 |
| LAKESHORE PLAYERS THEATER | $7,500 |
| WHITE BEAR LAKE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDAT | $5,000 |
| CENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER | $2,000 |
| COMO FRIENDS | $2,000 |
| RIVERWOOD NATURE CENTER | $1,000 |
| CHILDRENS PERFORMING ARTS | $1,000 |
| ST PAUL INTERVENTION PROJECT | $750 |
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 (FY21–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 50% of those 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.
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 +14% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- LCLIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY4× · 2021–2024 · $74k · revenue +117%
- CFCOMO FRIENDS2× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +34%
- SKSPARE KEY2× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- TFTHE FRONT LINE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -20%
- LSLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POORone grant, 2022 · $10k
- KCKEYSTONE COMMUNITY SERVICES FOOD SHone grant, 2020 · $8k
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.
The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.
Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.
To advance high quality, effective policing and strengthen police-community relations in minnesota through training, outreach, grants and scholarships.
Ensure camp fire minnesota's strong future. with nature as the catalyst, camp fire minnesota energizes youth to discover their spark so their futures glow brighter.
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
We make a positive difference in the health of the patients and communities we serve.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
The foundation supports initiatives designed to transform and enhance the experience of aging. the focus is on: catalytic change in building the workforce for tomorrow; advancing new approaches to service delivery; and developing…
Our mission is to provide better healthcare for the rural communities in northeastern minnesota and northwestern wisconsin. through empowerment and collaboration with independent health providers, wilderness health is able to help meet the…
Always with the goal of working toward a safer, more livable city, our mission is to improve working conditions for our members - police officers who work in minneapolis - and to make certain their rights are protected.
Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Time On the Water. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 36 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 LIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA POLICE AND PEACE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRONT LINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMO FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds RIVERWOOD NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAHTOMEDI AREA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE FOR LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPARE KEY ↗
- Who funds CHOICE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GREATER WHITE BEAR LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN FOSTER SHOPPE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Family Pathways ↗
- Who funds TIME ON THE WATER ↗
- Who funds SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Osilas Foundation · Nicholson Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family 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 Ritt 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.