Oregon · Private foundation
Ritz 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.
- $276k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Ritz Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 16 | $271k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $265k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $217k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $91k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $78k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $76k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $73k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $87k | 22% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Inheritance Inc | $155,000 | 8 | 13% |
| Braking Cycles | $127,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Youth Villages Inc | $85,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Portland Art Museum | $85,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Clackamas Women's Services | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Emanuel Medical Center Foundation | $50,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Meals on Wheels People Inc | $39,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Japanese Garden Society of Oregon | $31,667 | 4 | 0% |
| Portland Center Stage | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Pittock Mansion Society | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Inheritance Inc | $155,000 | 8 | 13% |
| Braking Cycles | $127,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Youth Villages Inc | $85,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Portland Art Museum | $85,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Clackamas Women's Services | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Emanuel Medical Center Foundation | $50,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Meals on Wheels People Inc | $39,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Japanese Garden Society of Oregon | $31,667 | 4 | 0% |
| Portland Center Stage | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Pittock Mansion Society | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Chess for Success | $24,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Pericarditis Alliance Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 23% |
| Three Little Pitties Rescue | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Veterans of Foreign Wars Dba VFW Post 1634 | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($528k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ritz Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Oregon Community Foundation · Juan Young Trust · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Ritz Family Foundation
- How much does Ritz Family Foundation give?
- Ritz Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $276,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ritz Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Health (12%), Environment (12%).
- Who are Ritz Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Global Inheritance Inc ($155k), Braking Cycles ($127k), Youth Villages Inc ($85k).
- Does Ritz Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ritz 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 Ritz Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Juan Young Trust, Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust.
- Where is Ritz Family Foundation based?
- Ritz Family Foundation is based in OR.
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