· Private foundation
Ritton 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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k116 grants · $154k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WV GAME CHANGERS INC | $65,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB WASHINGTON COUNTY | $20,000 |
| WEST VIRGINA UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| PIERPONT COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| WEST VIRGINA UNIVERSITY OF PARKERSBURG | $10,000 |
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| GLENVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $10,000 |
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ALUMNI FOR THE FUTURE | $5,000 |
| WEST VIRGINA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $5,000 |
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of Ritton Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 43% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 39%.
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 +11% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 30 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMarietta College5× · 2021–2025 · $266k · revenue +13%
- TBTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON CO3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +5%
- MAMOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- OGOAK GROVE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $49k · revenue -45%
- WCWOOD COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $32k · revenue +5%
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $19k
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.
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How this is measured
42 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. 42 of the 139 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 Marietta College ↗
- Who funds WV GAME CHANGERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON CO ↗
- Who funds OAK GROVE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds WOOD COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALUMNI FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE ↗
- Who funds ALDERSON BROADDUS UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds The Florida State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Wilmington College ↗
- Who funds WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
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: Albert a Christ Scholarship Fund 1403 · Peoples Bank Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Ibm International Foundation · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Charles H Feoppel Educational Loan Trust · West Virginia Independent Colleges and Universities Inc · Wv Emulation Endowment Trust · Clark Opportunity Foundation Inc · Council of Independent Colleges
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ritton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ritton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Florida Institute of Technology Inc: 3% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
- Barry University Inc: 0% of income from government
- Ave Maria University Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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