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Ritter Charitable Trust
The RITTER CHARITABLE TRUST aims to enhance quality of life for underserved communities by responding to evolving needs through strategic investments across a broad spectrum of areas.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $151,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $190,667 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $39,167 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| NEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS | $15,000 |
| THREE SQUARE | $11,500 |
| PRESCOTT AREA SHELTER SERVICES | $10,000 |
| SILVER STATE EQUALITY INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| RAISE THE FUTURE | $10,000 |
| ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK | $10,000 |
| CANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER | $10,000 |
| LEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| FOSTER KINSHIP | $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 (FY21–25, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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 +41% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- CACHILDREN'S ADVOCACY ALLIANCE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +4%
- RTRAISE THE FUTURE3× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +41%
- SJST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN INC2× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +581%
Funded once
- HHHELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEYone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +25%
- FSFUTURE SMILESone grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue +7%
- GOGREEN OUR PLANETgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +171%
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.
Nevada child seekers mission is to advocate for and engage in prevention, identification and location efforts on behalf of missing and exploited children.
Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.
Safe Embrace is committed to ending the cycle of domestic and sexual violence with innovative prevention and intervention services. We help victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking become survivors by providing…
S.a.f.e. house is a community based non-profit organization committed to stop abuse in the family environment by providing a comprehensive approach to end domestic violence that includes crisis intervention, safe shelter, counseling,…
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
Communities in schools of nevada, inc. (the organization) was originally established in 1992 as cities of schools of las vegas, but remained relatively dormant until 2003 when it reestablished its mission to coincide with the national…
To provide social, emotional, educational, and psychological support and programs to families of all children diagnosed with life threatening or critical illnesses and provide healing arts and wellness programs to adults touched by cancer…
Our mission is to help and heal children and their families who have been traumatized by abuse and neglect. because every child deserves a voice, we provide vital services when they need it the most.
To support, encourage and educate families of deaf and hard of hearing children to empower them to make choices that will enable their children to achieve their full potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Raise the Future and the most unlike its peers is St Judes Ranch for Children Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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.
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 CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds RAISE THE FUTURE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS YOUTH ↗
- Who funds NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FOSTER KINSHIP ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GENDER JUSTICE NEVADA ↗
- Who funds FUTURE SMILES ↗
- Who funds CANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER ↗
- Who funds GREEN OUR PLANET ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds Utah Arts Academy ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Prescott Area Shelter Services 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: Nevada Community Foundation Inc · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Speedway Children's Charities · The Boyd Family Foundation · The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation · Canarelli Family Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · America's Charities
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 Ritter Charitable Trust 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.
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