· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ritter Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ritter Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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