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Robert E Ringdahl Foundation Inc at a glance

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Robert E Ringdahl Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$250k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$867kHealth$337kAnimals$215kFood & Nutrition$109kEducation$90kYouth Development$67kEmployment$48kCrime & Legal$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $173k
$7,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE-A-WISH ARIZONA INC$30,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$27,500
NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION$20,000
1N10 INC$20,000
LONGMONT POLICE K9 ASSOCIATION$15,000
CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA$10,000
KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC$10,000
LONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC$10,000
CENTER ON COLFAX$10,000
ASPEN RIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$10,000
MAKE-A-WISH COLORADO CHAPTER$10,000
LA CROSSE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$7,500
WAFER FOOD PANTRY$7,500
BOULDER POLICE FOUNDATIONK9 UNIT$7,500
LA CROSSE AUTISM FOUNDATION$7,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 13%KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 13%KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 13%KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 13%KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 13%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN: $10k → 11%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
WI
NY
OR
PA
CO
AZ
KS
HI
GA
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 35 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
26

Total granted

$1.7M
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+42%

Still filing today

74%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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

  • HH
    HORSES HELP FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +47%
  • LH
    LONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $122k · revenue +41%
  • CT
    COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • WF
    WTC FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • AF
    Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +16%
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
Colorado West Inc

We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.

Health
2
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
3
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
4
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
5
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
6
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
7
La Plata County Humane Society

Animal shelter, spay & neuter, humane treatment of animals.

Animals
8
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.

Health
9
Wyoming Foundation for Cancer Care Inc

To reduce the impact of cancer on wyoming residents diagnosed with cancer by providing non-medical, charitable financial assistance and by providing free education and screening opportunities to residents not diagnosed with cancer.

Human Services
10
Healthier Colorado

Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…

Health
11
Lupus Foundation of Colorado Inc

The purposes of the organization are to promote awareness and understanding by the general public, to educate and support people with lupus and their families, and to encourage research to discover the causes and cure of systemic lupus…

Health
12
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League; the most unlike its peers is Hog Haven Farm. 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

50 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. 50 of the 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
37/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAKE-A-WISH ARIZONA INC: $300,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH ARIZONA INCHORSES HELP FOUNDATION: $215,000 · OtherHORSES HELP FOUNDATIONMAKE-A-WISH COLORADO CHAPTER: $128,500 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH COLORADO CHAPTERLONGMONT POLICE K9 ASSOCIATION: $115,000 · OtherLONGMONT POLICE K9 ASSOCIATIONCOLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $73,500 · OtherCOLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTERMDRC: $48,000 · Other+33 more: $305,350 · Other+33 moreCOULEE COUNCIL ON ADDICTIONS INC: $100,000 · HealthCOULEE COUNCIL…NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION: $65,500 · HealthNATIONAL PSORI…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $27,500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T…QUEER ASTERISK: $12,500 · HealthLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGED: $12,150 · HealthROBERTA'S LEGACY: $9,500 · Health+7 more: $15,950 · Health+7 moreLONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $121,875 · AnimalsLONGMONT HU…GREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER: $45,000 · AnimalsGREENWOOD W…HOG HAVEN FARM: $16,600 · AnimalsHOG HAVEN F…+5 more: $13,875 · Animals+5 moreCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $51,000 · Food & NutritionTHE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE: $16,950 · Food & NutritionCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $67,000 · Crime & LegalKEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $33,000 · Human ServicesArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $10,000 · Human ServicesHORSESENSE FOR SPECIAL RIDERS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesA WOMAN'S WORK INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS PRIDE IMPACT FUNDS: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human Services1N10 INC: $34,000 · Civil RightsONE COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $20,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,185,350Health$243,100Animals$197,350Food & Nutrition$67,950Crime & Legal$67,000Human Services$55,500Civil Rights$54,000

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 budgetHORSES HELP FOUNDATION: $215,000 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetLONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $121,875 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCOULEE COUNCIL ON ADDICTIONS INC: $100,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetCOLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $73,500 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $67,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION: $65,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $51,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC: $48,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER: $45,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetAspen Ridge Preparatory School: $39,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budget1N10 INC: $34,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $33,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetLONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $27,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE: $16,950 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHOG HAVEN FARM: $16,600 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetWOW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM WORLD OF WONDER: $13,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetQUEER ASTERISK: $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLilys Pad: $12,500 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGED: $12,150 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROBERTA'S LEGACY: $9,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC: $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRARE SISTERS BATTEN FOUNDATION INC: $6,250 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPHIPPS CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHORSESENSE FOR SPECIAL RIDERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetA WOMAN'S WORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLONGMONT UNITED HOSPITAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN STATES CANCER RESEARCH NCORP: $4,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFoothills Food Bank: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDESERT FOOTHILLS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMERCY HEALTH CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $1,375 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALM HOUSE RECOVERY CENTERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOLAS RESCUE: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $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.

  • Who funds HORSES HELP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds COULEE COUNCIL ON ADDICTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds MDRC ↗
  • Who funds GREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Aspen Ridge Preparatory School ↗
  • Who funds 1N10 INC ↗
  • Who funds KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds ONE COLORADO EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE ↗
  • Who funds HOG HAVEN FARM ↗
  • Who funds WOW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM WORLD OF WONDER ↗
  • Who funds QUEER ASTERISK ↗
  • Who funds Lilys Pad ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGED ↗
  • Who funds GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ROBERTA'S LEGACY ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds RARE SISTERS BATTEN FOUNDATION 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Denver FoundationLumen Clarke M Willia…The Longmont Communit…Community Foundation …Otter Cares Foundatio…Community Shares of C…The Colorado TrustAnschutz Family Found…Horsfall Family Found…Lauretta Boyd Charita…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO34.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · The Longmont Community Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Community Shares of Colorado Inc · The Colorado Trust · Anschutz Family Foundation · Horsfall Family Foundation · Lauretta Boyd Charitable Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert E Ringdahl Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert E Ringdahl Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Robert E Ringdahl Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 71 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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