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Ritter Family Foundation Ltd

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.

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$30kPublic Benefit$17kReligion$12kHuman Services$6kScience & Tech$4kEnvironment$3kPhilanthropy$3kEducation$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$244k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$3,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$2,500
HERITAGE FOUNDATION$2,000
JUDICIAL WATCH$2,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING$1,500
SHRINERS HOSPITAL$1,500
BETHANY HOUSE$1,500
FAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION$1,000
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY$1,000
MARCH OF DIMES$1,000
GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY$1,000
ST JUDE$1,000
GETTYSBURG COLLEGE$500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%GETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $500 → 9%BETHANY HOUSE: $2k → 6%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $1k → 7%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $3k → 17%JUDICIAL WATCH: $3k → 14%SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 13%DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $4k → 15%CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $1k → 9%ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $2k → 17%ELON UNIVERSITY: $500 → 13%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%MARCH OF DIMES: $2k → 7%BETHANY HOUSE: $2k → 6%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $1k → 7%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $2k → 17%JUDICIAL WATCH: $2k → 14%SHRINERS HOSPITAL: $2k → 13%ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%MARCH OF DIMES: $1k → 7%BETHANY HOUSE: $2k → 6%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $1k → 7%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $2k → 17%JUDICIAL WATCH: $2k → 14%SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 13%ST JUDE: $1k → 17%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%MARCH OF DIMES: $1k → 7%NORTH SHORE WOMENS CLUB: $1k → 6%LONG ISLAND FIGHT FOR CHARITY: $3k → 7%GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY: $1k → 14%SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 13%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%THE INN: $4k → 6%GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY: $1k → 14%THE INN: $4k → 6%GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY: $1k → 14%THE INN: $1k → 6%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%THE INN: $1k → 6%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $3k → 6%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%ST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $3k → 6%ST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $3k → 6%ST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $3k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
CT
VA
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$74k · 13 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 12 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

13
4

Total granted

$74k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
-3%

Still filing today

69%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPublic BenefitScience & TechHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther
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

  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +33%
  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +22%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    4× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • LI
    LONG ISLAND FIGHT FOR CHARITY
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • NS
    NORTH SHORE WOMENS CLUB INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • CC
    CONNECTICUT COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -3%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
5
International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech
6
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
12
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Bethany House 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

13 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. 13 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $11,000 · OtherST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $9,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $5,500 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERINGGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC: $3,000 · OtherGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INCST JUDE'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $3,000 · OtherST JUDE'S CHILDRENS HOSPITALLONG ISLAND FIGHT FOR CHARITY: $3,000 · OtherLONG ISLAND FIGHT FOR CHARITY+3 more: $2,500 · Other+3 moreALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $8,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATE…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,100 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILD…DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · HealthDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE …MARCH OF DIMES INC: $4,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INCTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $6,500 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUN…JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $6,500 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH IN…BETHANY HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $3,500 · Science & TechFAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION INC: $2,750 · Civil RightsCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $1,000 · EducationElon University: $500 · EducationGETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $500 · Education
Other$37,500Health$21,600Public Benefit$13,000Housing & Shelter$5,000Science & Tech$3,500Civil Rights$2,750Education$2,000

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 budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION INC: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElon University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 21 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-PF 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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