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Ryan-Richtsmeier Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $311k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY | $80,000 |
| YMCA OF THE CHESAPEAKE | $66,000 |
| PLEASANT BAY COMMUNITY BOATING | $65,000 |
| ST MICHAELS COMMUNITY CENTER | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| ALL4LOVE | $40,000 |
| CROSSOVER MISSION | $20,000 |
| SINSINAWA DOMINICANS | $20,000 |
| PARTNERS IN PROGRESS | $15,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS INC | $10,000 |
| ROCKVILLE HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Ryan-Richtsmeier Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PYPHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC2× · 2017–2021 · $270k · revenue +1000%
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $270k · revenue +32%- AMAMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY2× · 2023–2024 · $120k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- BABUILDING AFRICAN AMERICAN MINDS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +65%
- TMTALBOT MENTORSINCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -26%
- UOUniversity of Maryland College Park Foundone grant, 2017 · $60k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Mentoring Mentors is a Baltimore-based non-profit dedicated to developing future community leaders through exposure that leads to college and career readiness.
Casa of the mid-shore advocates for the best interest of children who are under the protection of the circuit courts of talbot, dorchester, queen annes and kent counties due to abuse, neglect or abandonment.
To advance community mediation in Maryland through educating the public, providing training and quality assurance, conducting research and creatively applying mediation to social challenges.
Bridges baltimore, inc. is committed to the long-term success of baltimore city youth and to providing life changing opportunities for independent school students.
Provides services to youth and families in low income area of baltimore city. services include after-school programming, organized sports activities, family support, and summer camp.
14 month residential program for young men with substance abuse and other life controlling problems including guidance counseling, education, housing, food and recreation.
Port discovery children's museum's mission is to connect purposeful play and learning within its walls and beyond.
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Teens in public service produces future leaders committed to their communities by connecting teens with life-changing opportunities and internships at non-profit organizations.
Community for youth employs youth mentoring, community building, leadership development, and career exploration to help youth develop relationships that will support their lives, connect with their internal power, and help them make a…
The maryland center on economic policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy.
To foster appreciation of delmarva's unique natural and cultural heritage through education, exploration and enjoyment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is ALL4LOVE. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING AFRICAN AMERICAN MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PLEASANT BAY COMMUNITY BOATING INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT MENTORSINC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds MID-SHORE EARLY LEARNING CTR INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAELS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds ALL4LOVE ↗
- Who funds MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds STATE COLLEGE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIEND OF PLEASANT BAY INC ↗
- Who funds AVALON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Dock Street Foundation · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · The Llandaff Family Trust · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · Dalton Family Foundation · Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Talbot County Arts Council Inc · The Michael and Nancy Klein Foundation Inc · Putnam Family Foundation Inc · Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ryan-Richtsmeier Charitable Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- St Michaels Community Center Inc — 20% of income from government
- Building African American Minds Inc — 12% of income from government
- Avalon Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- American Meteorological Society — 5% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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