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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.

$191k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$219kHuman Services$215kHousing & Shelter$67kPhilanthropy$50kHealth$46kCivil Rights$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kFood & Nutrition$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $151,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $190,667 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $39,167 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$25,000
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY ALLIANCE$20,000
NEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS$15,000
THREE SQUARE$11,500
ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK$10,000
FOSTER KINSHIP$10,000
PRESCOTT AREA SHELTER SERVICES$10,000
SILVER STATE EQUALITY INSTITUTE$10,000
CANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER$10,000
RAISE THE FUTURE$10,000
LEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA$10,000
ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOSTER KINSHIP: $10k → 13%FOSTER KINSHIP: $10k → 13%FOSTER KINSHIP: $10k → 13%RAISE THE FUTURE: $50k → 13%RAISE THE FUTURE: $15k → 13%RAISE THE FUTURE: $10k → 13%HELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY: $40k → 13%ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 13%FOSTER KINSHIP: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$536k · 9 repeat orgs$122k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$536k
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+23%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthCrime & LegalCivil RightsEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CA
    CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY ALLIANCE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +4%
  • RT
    RAISE THE FUTURE
    3× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +41%
  • SJ
    ST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN INC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +581%

Funded once

  • HH
    HELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +23%
  • FS
    FUTURE SMILES
    one grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue +7%
  • GO
    GREEN OUR PLANETgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +171%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Healthy Nevada
Health
2
Nevada Child Seekers

Nevada child seekers mission is to advocate for and engage in prevention, identification and location efforts on behalf of missing and exploited children.

Crime & Legal
3
Safe Nesttemporary Assistance for

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.

Human Services
4
Safe Embrace

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…

Health
5
Nevada Peer Support Network Inc
Health
6
Safe House Inc

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,…

Human Services
7
Christian Family Care Agency Inc

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,…

Human Services
8
Communities in Schools of Nevada Inc

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…

Human Services
9
Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation

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…

Health
10
Children's Advocacy Center

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.

Human Services
11
Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
12
Nevada Hands & Voices

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Raise the Future; 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.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAISE THE FUTURE: $75,000 · Human ServicesRAISE THE FUTUREST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN INCFOSTER KINSHIP: $40,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER KINSHIPHELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY: $40,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEYCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY ALLIANCE INC: $180,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY ALLIANCE…NEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS YOUTH: $57,000 · Housing & ShelterNEVADA PAR…Prescott Area Shelter Services Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterPrescott A…NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyFUTURE SMILES: $25,500 · HealthCANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER: $20,000 · HealthLEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $39,437 · Civil RightsWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $35,000 · InternationalGENDER JUSTICE NEVADA: $30,000 · OtherGENDER JUSTI…GREEN OUR PLANET: $15,000 · OtherGREEN OUR PL…THREE SQUARE: $11,500 · OtherTHREE SQUAREUtah Arts Academy: $10,000 · OtherUtah Arts Ac…EQUALITY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE: $10,000 · OtherEQUALITY CAL…
Human Services$215,000Crime & Legal$180,000Housing & Shelter$67,000Philanthropy$50,000Health$45,500Civil Rights$39,437International$35,000Other$76,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY ALLIANCE INC: $180,000 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetRAISE THE FUTURE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS YOUTH: $57,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOSTER KINSHIP: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $39,437 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGENDER JUSTICE NEVADA: $30,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetFUTURE SMILES: $25,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREEN OUR PLANET: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $11,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Arts Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Nevada Community Foun…NV Energy Charitable …Mgm Resorts FoundationEngelstad Family Foun…United Way of Souther…Vegas Golden Knights …Speedway Children's C…The Boyd Family Found…The Mel & Ruth Wolzin…Canarelli Family Foun…Wynn Resorts Foundati…America's Charities
Nevada Community Foundation IncNV28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ritter Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ritter Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ritter Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Ritter Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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