Connecticut · Private foundation
Ritter Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $285,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $601k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Ritter Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $1.8M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $1.7M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $1.6M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $2.3M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $1.6M | 46% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $1.7M | 23% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $1.2M | 54% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $992k | 83% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Center Inc | $1,190,713 | 6 | 5% |
| Let's Get Ready Inc | $590,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Rvnahealth Inc | $585,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Family & Children's Agency Inc | $551,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Catalyst Ct Inc | $530,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Norwalkstamford Grassroots Tennis & Education Inc | $385,000 | 8 | 17% |
| Alliance for Community Empowerment Inc | $364,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Horizons at CT State Norwalk Inc | $360,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Norwalk Acts Inc | $345,299 | 6 | 10% |
| Norwalk Housing Foundation Inc | $342,250 | 4 | 36% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ritter Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The per and Astrid Heidenreich Family Foundation · Young Mens Christian Association of Westport/Weston Ct Inc · Lone Pine Foundation Inc · The Goodnow Fund · Tauck Family Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ritter Family Foundation
- How much does Ritter Family Foundation give?
- Ritter Family Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $1,768,628 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ritter Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Education (19%), Health (16%).
- Who are Ritter Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Center Inc ($1.2M), Let's Get Ready Inc ($590k), Rvnahealth Inc ($585k).
- Does Ritter Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ritter Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ritter Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The Near and Far Association Inc, The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts.
- Where is Ritter Family Foundation based?
- Ritter Family Foundation is based in CT.
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