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The Ripp Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$58k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$183kEducation$163kArts & Culture$40kHousing & Shelter$12kYouth Development$10kEnvironment$7kHuman Services$6kReligion$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART$13,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC INDIAN RIVER FOUNDATION$10,000
UNDUE MEDICAL DEBT$10,000
TOM SAWYER FOUNDATION$3,000
SPINEHOPE$2,500
CHATHAM EMERGENCY SQUAD$2,500
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY$2,500
ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$2,500
INDIAN RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$2,000
GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER$1,500
VNA & HOSPICE FOUNDATION$1,400
THE PALACE THEATER$1,000
RIVERSIDE THEATRE$1,000
CHILDREN DYSLEXIA CENTER OF NASHUA$1,000
WHOLE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER$750
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SAFE SPACE: $3k → 10%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $500 → 12%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $2k → 12%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $2k → 12%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $2k → 12%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $2k → 12%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $1k → 12%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $500 → 12%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $500 → 12%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.
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.
$398k · 19 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
11

Total granted

$398k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+84%

Still filing today

74%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IU
    IONA UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $105k · revenue +14%
  • TL
    THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +13%
  • VB
    VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +916%

Funded once

  • FV
    FELLSMERE VOLUNTEER MEDICAL CLINIC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • SI
    SAFESPACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +94%
  • HC
    HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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2
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
3
Riverside Healthcare Foundation

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…

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4
Riverview Healthcare Association

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.…

Health
5
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
6
Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center Inc

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.

Health
7
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

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…

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8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

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…

Community Improvement
10
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
11
United Way of Rhode Island Inc

United way's mission is uniting our community and resources to build racial equity and opportunities for all rhode islanders.

Philanthropy
12
University of Florida Health Corporation

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,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Indian River County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 39 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
19/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IONA UNIVERSITY: $105,000 · EducationIONA UNIVERSITYTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 · EducationTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC+3 more: $7,900 · EducationINDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $140,500 · HealthINDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $4,750 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH ASSN IN IRC INC: $13,500 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH …Indian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc: $12,000 · OtherIndian River C…VNA & HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $7,550 · OtherVNA & HOSPICE …FELLSMERE VOLUNTEER MEDICAL CLINIC: $5,000 · OtherFELLSMERE VOLU…I AM MINISTRIES INC: $4,200 · OtherI AM MINISTRIE…CHATHAM EMERGENCY SQUAD INC: $2,500 · Other+13 more: $9,100 · Other+13 moreVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $30,500 · Arts & CultureVERO BEAC…RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $6,500 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE…+1 more: $250 · Arts & CultureMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesSAFESPACE INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH GUIDANCE OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $1,900 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $5,750 · EnvironmentINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $1,700 · EnvironmentUNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $2,850 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $250 · Philanthropy
Education$162,900Health$145,250Other$53,850Arts & Culture$37,250Human Services$23,400Environment$7,450Philanthropy$3,100

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 budgetINDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $140,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetIONA UNIVERSITY: $105,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $30,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSN IN IRC INC: $13,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetIndian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $8,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $5,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAFESPACE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $2,850 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHATHAM EMERGENCY SQUAD INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWHOLE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH GUIDANCE OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $1,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC GUARDIAN SERVICES: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MINISTRY OF CARING INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETYINC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $250 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.

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.

Indian River Communit…Olivia Delacruz Found…John's Island Communi…The John's Island Fou…Grand Harbor Communit…United Way of Indian …Sad Foundation IncBernard a Egan Founda…Jake Owen FoundationThe Kahle Foundation …Archie S Wingfield Jr…The Bessemer Giving F…
Indian River Community Foundation IncFL23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Ripp Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 39 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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