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The Ralph Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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The Ralph Family Charitable Trust

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.

$74k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$87kArts & Culture$39kEducation$21kReligion$15kHealth$14kHuman Services$13kAnimals$10kYouth Development$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$1,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$102k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEARCH RESCUE DOG FOUNDATION$20,000
JOINT JEWISH DISTRIBUTION$10,000
HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION$5,000
FRANCISCAN FRIARS$3,500
COLLIER YOUTH SERVICES$2,800
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY$2,500
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER$2,500
FOOD FOR THE POOR$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
SUDAN RELIEF$1,000
FINCA$1,000
MARTYS PLACE$1,000
FRANCISCAN BREAD FOR THE POOR$1,000
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL$1,000
HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYSTOWN: $1k → 12%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $1k → 13%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%GOOD COUNSEL HOMES: $1k → 14%LIFENET: $1k → 16%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 8%BOYSTOWN: $1k → 12%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%GOOD COUNSEL HOMES: $1k → 14%LIFENET: $500 → 16%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 8%BOYSTOWN: $500 → 12%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 8%BOYS TOWN: $500 → 12%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 8%BOYSTOWN: $250 → 12%ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME: $1k → 14%ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%MERCY CENTER: $3k → 6%MERCY CENTER: $1k → 6%A CHANCE IN LIFE: $1k → 17%A CHANCE IN LIFE: $1k → 17%A CHANCE IN LIFE: $1k → 17%A CHANCE IN LIFE: $1k → 17%A CHANCE IN LIFE: $1k → 17%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
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
DC
MS
GA
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$241k · 49 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

49 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
26

Total granted

$241k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+93%

Still filing today

63%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $33k · revenue +24%
  • MU
    MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $16k · revenue +5%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI
    2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • TR
    TWO RIVER THEATRE
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • SB
    ST BENEDICT CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NJ
    one grant, 2019 · $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.

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
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
2
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
3
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
4
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
5
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
6
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
7
International Rescue Committee Inc

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.

International
8
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
9
Oxfam-America Inc

Oxfam america (oxfam or oa) is a global organization that fights inequality to end poverty and injustice. we offer lifesaving support in times of crisis and advocate for economic justice, gender equality, and climate action.

International
10
Alight

Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…

International
11
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
12
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation

Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Mill Dog Rescue. 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

42 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. 42 of the 88 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
31/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TWO RIVER THEATER: $30,600 · OtherTWO RIVER THEATERSEARCH RESCUE DOG FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherSEARCH RESCUE DOG FOUNDATIONCOLLIER YOUTH SERVICES: $11,700 · OtherCOLLIER YOUTH SERVICESJOINT JEWISH DISTRIBUTION: $10,000 · OtherJOINT JEWISH DISTRIBUTIONMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $5,000 · Other+48 more: $64,350 · Other+48 moreThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $33,300 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribu…DIRECT RELIEF: $6,500 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $6,000 · InternationalCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INCVILLA LA PAZ: $6,000 · InternationalVILLA LA PAZAMAZON RELIEF: $6,000 · InternationalAMAZON RELIEFMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,750 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $5,125 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND REL…Save The Children Federation Inc: $4,500 · InternationalISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $3,400 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $3,325 · International+8 more: $10,650 · International+8 moreHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETW…ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesST BONIFAC…A CHANCE IN LIFEINC: $5,000 · Human ServicesA CHANCE I…MERCY CENTER CORPORATION: $3,500 · Human ServicesMERCY CENT…Father Flanagan's Boys' Home: $3,250 · Human ServicesFather Fla…GOOD COUNSEL INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesGOOD COUNS…LIFENET Inc: $1,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $16,200 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI: $7,000 · AnimalsFlorida Urgent Rescue: $500 · AnimalsCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $5,500 · HealthNO LIMITS CAFE: $4,250 · Employment
Other$141,650International$90,550Human Services$28,250Education$22,300Animals$7,500Health$5,500Employment$4,250

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 budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $33,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $16,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $6,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVILLA LA PAZ: $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAMAZON RELIEF: $6,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $5,125 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA CHANCE IN LIFEINC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNO LIMITS CAFE: $4,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMERCY CENTER CORPORATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $3,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $3,325 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $3,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD COUNSEL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Mill Dog Rescue: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIFENET Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD360: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Urgent Rescue: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRALLYCAP SPORTS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDISCERNING HEARTS CO DOUGLAS J LACEY CPA: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $100 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 The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
  • Who funds VILLA LA PAZ ↗
  • Who funds AMAZON RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds A CHANCE IN LIFEINC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NO LIMITS CAFE ↗
  • Who funds MERCY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds GOOD COUNSEL INC ↗
  • Who funds National Mill Dog Rescue ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN 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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…New Jersey Natural Ga…Oceanfirst FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Community Foundation …The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Verizon FoundationNational Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Network for Good
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY16.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Oceanfirst Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good

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 Ralph Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ralph Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Mercy Center Corporation: 21% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 88 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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