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The Ricki Fund at a glance

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The Ricki Fund

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.

$3k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$21kHealth$6kEnvironment$4kArts & Culture$3kCivil Rights$221Education$198International$100Philanthropy$36Other$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$991
Median grant
3
States reached
$346k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETH SHALOM TEMPLE CENTER$1,685
AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS$991
NATURE CONSERVANCY$216
Individual grant recipient$18
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $108 → 11%SIERRA CLUB: $150 → 10%COMMON GROUND CORONA: $180 → 11%SIERRA CLUB: $300 → 9%NRDC: $129 → 17%HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $540 → 14%CONGREGATION BETH EL: $1k → 9%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $442 → 7%AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS: $2k → 10%HIAS: $100 → 8%ENVIRONMENT MAINE: $1k → 7%SHUTTERBUGS 4 CHARITY: $100 → 9%ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $108 → 11%SIERRA CLUB: $270 → 9%HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $500 → 14%CONGREGATION BETH EL: $1k → 9%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $300 → 7%AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS: $1k → 10%BETH SHALOM TEMPLE CENTER: $6k → 15%SIERRA CLUB: $198 → 9%HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $500 → 14%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $300 → 7%AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS: $991 → 10%CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL: $720 → 9%BETH SHALOM TEMPLE CENTER: $5k → 15%HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $500 → 14%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $300 → 7%AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS: $968 → 10%BETH SHALOM TEMPLE CENTER: $2k → 15%HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $360 → 14%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $270 → 7%AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS: $716 → 10%BETH SHALOM TEMPLE CENTER: $840 → 15%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $216 → 7%AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS: $480 → 10%BETH SHALOM TEMPLE CENTER: $766 → 15%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $180 → 7%AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS: $200 → 10%BETH SHALOM TEMPLE CENTER: $762 → 15%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $180 → 7%AL-ANON: $180 → 10%BETH SHALOM TEMPLE CENTER: $655 → 15%HADASSAH: $270 → 17%BETH SHALOM TEMPLE CENTER: $270 → 15%HADASSAH: $250 → 17%HADASSAH: $180 → 17%HADASSAH: $180 → 17%HADASSAH: $180 → 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

ME
NY
PA
CT
CA
NE
VA
MD
AZ
DC
GA
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$31k · 14 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
14

Total granted

$31k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+31%

Still filing today

43%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18 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
EnvironmentHealthEducationArts & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AF
    AL-ANON FAMILY GROUP HEADQUARTERS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $6k · revenue +19%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $237 · revenue +41%
  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    3× · 2018–2020 · $180 · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • CB
    CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL
    one grant, 2017 · $720
  • A
    AL-ANON
    one grant, 2018 · $180
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
3
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
4
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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5
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)

Environment
6
International Snow Leopard Trust

The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…

Animals
7
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
8
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
9
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
10
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
11
The International Dark-Sky Association Inc

Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.

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12
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Nature Conservancy; the most unlike its peers is Shutterbugs 4 Charity. 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

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 30 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BETH SHALOM TEMPLE CENTER: $16,490 · OtherBETH SHALOM TEMPLE CENTERHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $2,400 · OtherHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUMCONGREGATION BETH EL: $2,370 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH ELTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,296 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYHADASSAH: $1,160 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · Other+15 more: $2,737 · Other+15 moreAL-ANON FAMILY GROUP HEADQUARTERS INC: $6,255 · HealthAL-ANON FAMILY GROUP…+1 more: $108 · HealthNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $237 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $61 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $18 · EnvironmentSHUTTERBUGS 4 CHARITY: $200 · Arts & CultureDONORSCHOOSEORG: $180 · EducationHIAS INC: $100 · InternationalCommunity Food Bank Inc: $36 · Food & Nutrition
Other$28,453Health$6,363Environment$316Arts & Culture$200Education$180International$100Food & Nutrition$36

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAL-ANON FAMILY GROUP HEADQUARTERS INC: $6,255 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,296 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $237 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHUTTERBUGS 4 CHARITY: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $180 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $108 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $61 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $18 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 AL-ANON FAMILY GROUP HEADQUARTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds SHUTTERBUGS 4 CHARITY ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Ricki Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ricki Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 30 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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