· Private foundation
The Ripp Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART | $13,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC INDIAN RIVER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNDUE MEDICAL DEBT | $10,000 |
| TOM SAWYER FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY | $2,500 |
| SPINEHOPE | $2,500 |
| ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CHATHAM EMERGENCY SQUAD | $2,500 |
| INDIAN RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER | $1,500 |
| VNA & HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $1,400 |
| RIVERSIDE THEATRE | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN DYSLEXIA CENTER OF NASHUA | $1,000 |
| THE PALACE THEATER | $1,000 |
| WHOLE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER | $750 |
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 (FY17–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- IUIONA UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $105k · revenue +14%
- TLTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +13%
- VBVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC7× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +916%
Funded once
- FVFELLSMERE VOLUNTEER MEDICAL CLINICone grant, 2022 · $5k
- SISAFESPACE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +94%
- HCHOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The foundation was established to promote, by donation, loan or otherwise, educational programs, scientific research, treatment facilities, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, housing centers, human services programs and other charitable…
We deliver a healthcare experience that consistently exceeds patients' expectations through exceptional people - our people are our foundation. we employ trusted, dedicated professionals who serve with compassion, empathy and respect.…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Southeast iowa regional medical center is dedicated to improving the region's health by providing high-quality care, world-class customer service, and uncompromising value for our patients and their families.
Benefit, perform, and carry out the charitable, educational, and other exempt purposes of indiana university health ball memorial hospital, inc. ("iu health ball memorial hospital") and related organizations, and to support activities…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
United way's mission is uniting our community and resources to build racial equity and opportunities for all rhode islanders.
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Indian River County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Spinehope Fka Spinal Deformity Foundation Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 39 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 INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IONA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSN IN IRC INC ↗
- Who funds Indian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds SAFESPACE INC ↗
- Who funds TOM SAWYER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SPINEHOPE FKA SPINAL DEFORMITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM EMERGENCY SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHOLE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH GUIDANCE OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC GUARDIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE MINISTRY OF CARING INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETYINC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD FREE LIBRARY ↗
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: Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Olivia Delacruz Foundation Inc · John's Island Community Service League Inc · The John's Island Foundation Inc · Grand Harbor Community Outreach Program Inc · United Way of Indian River County Inc · Sad Foundation Inc · Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc · Jake Owen Foundation · The Kahle Foundation Inc · Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995 · The Bessemer Giving Fund
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 The Ripp Family 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.
- The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% of income from government
- Safespace Inc — 25% of income from government
- United Way of Indian River County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rowan University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- Chatham Emergency Squad Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
- Whole Family Health Center Inc — 0% 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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