· Private foundation
The Don and Leslie Ritter Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $50,250 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $18,305 |
| NANCY LIEBERMAN CHARITIES | $15,200 |
| MARIETTA COLLEGE | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| DALALS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| COLLIN COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY | $50 |
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 (FY21–22, $325) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +29% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50 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× · 2020–2024 · $580k · revenue +30%
- PEPARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL4× · 2021–2024 · $233k · revenue +29%
Southern Methodist University5× · 2020–2024 · $61k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- CMCHILDREN'S MEDCIAL CTR FDNone grant, 2021 · $15k
- BSBAYLOR SCOTT WHITEone grant, 2023 · $6k
- RTREBUILDING TOGETHER N TEXASone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Dunwoody college changes lives by building opportunities for graduates to have successful careers, to develop into leaders and entrepreneurs, and to engage in "the better performance of life's duties." quote is from the last will and…
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
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Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
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To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
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How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 27 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 PARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NANCY LIEBERMAN CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds SIGMA KAPPA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds WHISKEY AND WISHES INC ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Don and Leslie Ritter Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Don and Leslie Ritter Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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