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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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MID-FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CARE CENTER | $285,000 |
| ODYSSEY FAMILY EXECUTIVE CENTER | $126,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,000 |
| CHANGENT - CHILD FIRST CT | $100,000 |
| CATALYST CT | $100,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT | $89,000 |
| RVNAHEALTH | $75,000 |
| FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY | $75,000 |
| CT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH | $75,000 |
| NORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATIONS- SSTP | $75,000 |
| NORWALK ACTS | $52,188 |
| YOUTH BUSINESS INITIATIVE | $51,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA - CT | $50,000 |
| LET'S GET READY | $50,000 |
| GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH - SPARK | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $636k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +26% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 5 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $295k 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
- MCMID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +111%
- RIRVNAHEALTH INC8× · 2018–2025 · $585k · revenue +197%
- CCCATALYST CT INC6× · 2020–2025 · $530k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- COCITY OF NORWALK- NORWALK CONNECTIVITY INITIATIVEone grant, 2020 · $125k
- CACT AFTERSCHOOL NETWORKone grant, 2021 · $75k
- AFACHIEVEMENT FIRST INCone grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue -4%
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.
Readyct works to advance academic excellence and career-connected learning for all public school students in connecticut through collaboration with business, civic, and education leaders.
The children's community programs of connecticut, inc., is a nonprofit, multi-service agency whose mission is to provide diverse and creative support services to children and families throughout connecticut.
By partnering with community groups and implementing a whole-family care, relationship-based, and place-based program, community first school (cfs) empowers children in hartford's promise zone neighborhoods to own their own greatness, and…
The mission of achievement first hartford academy is to strengthen the academic and character skills needed for all students to excel in top-tier colleges, to achieve success in a competitive world and to serve as the next generation of…
The mission of achievement first bridgeport academy, inc. is to strengthen the academic and character skills needed for all students to excel in top-tier colleges, to achieve success in a competitive world and to serve as the next…
The stamford charter school for excellence prepares young people in stamford, connecticut to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social,…
Provides early educational programs which include head start, school readiness, and child day care in lower fairfield county. clc serves over 800 students age six weeks to five years old.
The kids' scholarship fund helps connecticut children from low-income families reach their full potential by providing equal access to a high-quality, foundational k-8 education through need-based scholarships that empower families to…
Social Impact Partners ("SIP") is an innovative nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the opportunity divide in Connecticut by expanding pathways to living wage jobs and economic mobility for all, working with partners across the…
The connecticut rise network's mission is to ensure all students graduate with a plan and the skills and confidence to achieve college and career success. rise leads networks of school communities that work together to use data to learn…
Advancect foundation addresses economic inequality in connecticut through funding workforce development and skills training, particularly targeting distressed communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Norwalk Acts Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Perrin Family Foundation. 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 26 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 72 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 MID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LET'S GET READY INC ↗
- Who funds RVNAHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds CATALYST CT INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALKSTAMFORD GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Horizons at CT State Norwalk Inc ↗
- Who funds NORWALK ACTS INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS BRIDGEPORT ↗
- Who funds YOUTH BUSINESS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CHILD FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds INTEMPO ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds Kids Empowered by Your Support 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: 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
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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Alliance for Community Empowerment Inc — 100% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Family & Children's Agency Inc — 47% of income from government
- Catalyst Ct Inc — 37% of income from government
- Youth Business Initiative — 36% of income from government
- Norwalk Community Health Center — 35% of income from government
- Ctdata Collaborative — 35% of income from government
- Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Center Inc — 30% of income from government
- Connecticut Council for Philanthropy — 24% of income from government
- Stamford Public Education Foundation Inc — 22% of income from government
- The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Connecticut — 14% of income from government
- Norwalk Acts Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc — 5% of income from government
- Intempo Organization Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rvnahealth Inc — 2% of income from government
- Achievement First Inc — 0% of income from government
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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