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The Andreas Rickenbach Foundation at a glance

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The Andreas Rickenbach 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.

$199k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Animals$699kEnvironment$304kEducation$145kArts & Culture$107kInternational$10kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $166k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC$25,000
PARTNERS IN ANIMAL PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION$25,000
FILM INDEPENDENT INC$20,000
GREENLAMP$20,000
ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL$15,000
LEND A BONE INC$11,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
ANIMAL EQUALITY$10,000
HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL$10,000
KIPP FOUNDATION$10,000
CARAVITA FOUNDATION$10,000
FILM INDEPENDENT INC$7,500
Individual grant recipient$6,000
ONE TREE PLANTED INC$5,000
DIXIES REDEMPTION ANIMAL RESCUE CORP$5,000
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.

US giving: 88% of grant dollars ($1.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($161k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LEND A BONE INC: $11k → 15%THE INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC: $8k → 20%ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE: $10k → 15%PARTNERS IN ANIMAL PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION: $30k → 7%CARAVITA FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY A COLORADO NON-PROFIT CO: $25k → 9%NEW WAYS FOR AFRICA INC: $10k → 5%PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $25k → 19%ONE TREE PLANTED INC: $25k → 10%LEND A BONE INC: $9k → 15%THE INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC: $8k → 20%PARTNERS IN ANIMAL PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION: $25k → 7%PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $25k → 19%ONE TREE PLANTED INC: $25k → 10%PARTNERS IN ANIMAL PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION: $25k → 7%PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $25k → 19%ONE TREE PLANTED INC: $25k → 10%PARTNERS IN ANIMAL PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION: $25k → 7%PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $25k → 19%ONE TREE PLANTED INC: $10k → 10%HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $25k → 14%PARTNERS IN ANIMAL PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION: $25k → 7%PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $25k → 19%HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $25k → 14%PARTNERS IN ANIMAL PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION: $25k → 7%PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $25k → 19%HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $25k → 14%HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $25k → 14%HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $25k → 14%HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $10k → 14%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $30k → 14%ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 14%ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 14%ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 14%ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 14%ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 14%THE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER: $10k → 14%ANIMAL EQUALITY: $25k → 14%ANIMAL EQUALITY: $25k → 14%ANIMAL EQUALITY: $25k → 14%ANIMAL EQUALITY: $10k → 14%FILM INDEPENDENT INC: $20k → 14%FILM INDEPENDENT INC: $10k → 14%FILM INDEPENDENT INC: $10k → 14%FILM INDEPENDENT INC: $8k → 14%FILM INDEPENDENT INC: $8k → 14%ANIMAL EQUALITY: $25k → 14%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

VT
NY
OR
NJ
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC
GA
TX

Beyond the US: 12% of all-years giving ($161k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Switzerland$161k · 8 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 17 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
14

Total granted

$1.1M
$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+11%

Still filing today

82%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyInternationalHealthOther
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

  • PF
    PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +82%
  • PI
    Partners in Animal Protection and Conservation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +29%
  • OF
    ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +47%
  • TW
    THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +43%
  • NW
    NEW WAYS FOR AFRICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +109%
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
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
World Vets

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…

Animals
3
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
4
The Animal Welfare Foundation
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5
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
6
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
7
Asia Wild

Asia Wild is committed to rescuing and protecting the welfare of animals worldwide. They support small, locally-focused organizations that tirelessly combat numerous issues that threaten wildlife survival, including poaching, abuse,…

Animals
8
Animal Freedom Inc

The organization works to create a world where all animals have their freedom respected by society and protected in law.

Animals
9
Partners for Animal Welfare Society

Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.

Animals
10
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
11
Animal Nation Inc

Animal welfare organization providing rescue, rehabilitation, and adoption for wild, domestic, and farmed animals.

Animals
12
Animals First Aid Nfp

Animals First Aid supports grassroots animal welfare groups worldwide by raising funds, sharing resources, and responding to urgent rescue and care needs.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The California Wildlife Center; the most unlike its peers is Lend a Bone 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

31 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. 31 of the 37 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
19/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $155,000 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INCPartners in Animal Protection and Conservation: $155,000 · AnimalsPartners in Animal Protection and ConservationAnimal Equality: $110,000 · AnimalsAnimal EqualityREWILD: $30,000 · AnimalsREWILDTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $25,000 · AnimalsLEND A BONE INC: $20,000 · Animals+11 more: $65,999 · Animals+11 moreGREENLAMP: $145,000 · OtherGREENLAMPORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $140,000 · OtherORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIO…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN C…Individual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE: $13,700 · Other+5 more: $19,700 · Other+5 moreHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $135,000 · EducationHARVARD-WEST…KIPP FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationKIPP FOUNDAT…FILM INDEPENDENT: $70,000 · Arts & CultureFILM INDE…INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDE…INVERTIGO DANCE THEATRE: $12,000 · Arts & CultureINVERTIGO…+1 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureONE TREE PLANTED INC: $90,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyNEW WAYS FOR AFRICA INC: $10,000 · InternationalTHE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER: $10,000 · Health
Animals$560,999Other$359,400Education$145,000Arts & Culture$105,000Philanthropy$100,000International$10,000Health$10,000

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 budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $155,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPartners in Animal Protection and Conservation: $155,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $140,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $135,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Equality: $110,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $70,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetREWILD: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEND A BONE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE: $13,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINVERTIGO DANCE THEATRE: $12,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLITTLE BUCKETS FARM SANCTUARY: $11,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE: $8,264 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE ALL ANIMALS ORGANIZATION: $7,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWESTSIDE GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE OF LOS ANGELES: $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE FOR PAWS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFree Animal Doctor Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE: $3,685 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF VILLA AURORA & THOMAS MANN HOUSE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAVING GIZMOS FRIENDS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBella Vita Rescue Inc: $550 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Endowment Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY10.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 The Andreas Rickenbach Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Andreas Rickenbach Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 37 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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