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W Lee & Rosalie Ridenour Foundation Inc at a glance

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W Lee & Rosalie Ridenour Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$20kReligion$19kPublic Benefit$11kHousing & Shelter$10kYouth Development$8kHealth$5kFood & Nutrition$5kEducation$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$319k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIRLS INC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY$6,100
IT'S A BLESSING TO BE A BLESSING$4,000
INTERFAITH SERVICE COALITION OF$4,000
SALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP$4,000
WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMISSION ON$4,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%MASSB FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%CHILDREN IN NEED INC: $3k → 12%STAR COMMUNITY INC: $2k → 12%HAGERSTOWN DAY NURSERY: $1k → 12%CHILDREN IN NEED INC: $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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$50k · 9 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
21

Total granted

$50k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+3%

Still filing today

56%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • GI
    GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WASHINGTON COUNTY
    2× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +56%
  • WC
    WASHINGTON COUNTY FREE LIBRARY
    2× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +3%
  • CI
    CHILDREN IN NEED INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +21%
  • MF
    MASSB FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +35%
  • WC
    WASHINGTON CO FAMILY CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
Washington County Food Bank Inc

Food distribution to needy individuals and families.

Food & Nutrition
2
Our Place Waldorf Inc

Our Place Waldorf provides residents in need in Charles County, Maryland with nutritious food in a welcoming, open, and friendly environment.

Food & Nutrition
3
Washington County Historical Society Inc

The organization is charged with fostering an interest in the history of washington county, maryland and the vicinity.

Arts & Culture
4
Washington County Leadership Development Program Inc

Provide leadership development programs to enhance economic development and the quality of life in washington county, maryland.

Education
5
Washington Dc Meals on Wheels Inc

We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…

—
6
Hope Center of Maryland Inc

Assist low-income families

Food & Nutrition
7
Washington County Chamber of Commerce Inc

The organization provides programs and services that meet the business and professional needs of its members while promoting efforts to make the community a great place to live and work.

—
8
Washington County Chamber of Commerce

To promote and advance the interest of the washington county business community.

Community Improvement
9
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Washington County Maryland Inc

To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
10
House of Hope of Washington County

To provide socialization opportunities, meaningful activities, a caring community that fosters mutual support, programs, activitities and an environment that foster recovery.

Health
11
The Washington County Humane Society Inc

Rescue and care for stray or unwanted animals.

Animals
12
Washington Christian Outreach Inc

The washington christian outreach provides assistance and services to those within and outside washington county.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Living Alternatives Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hagerstown Day Nursery. 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

15 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. 15 of the 31 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMISSION ON: $11,000 · OtherWASHINGTON COUNTY COMMISSION ONSALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP: $5,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORPINTERFAITH SERVICE COALITION OF: $5,000 · OtherINTERFAITH SERVICE COALITION OFWASHINGTON CO COUNCIL OF CHURCHES: $5,000 · OtherWASHINGTON CO COUNCIL OF CHURCHESWASHINGTON CO FAMILY CENTER: $3,000 · OtherWASHINGTON CO FAMILY CENTERSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $3,000 · OtherSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INCCITIZEN'S ASSISTING & SHELTERING: $2,000 · OtherTRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $2,000 · Other+10 more: $10,500 · Other+10 moreMASSB FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Human ServicesMASSB FOUND…CHILDREN IN NEED INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN IN…STAR COMMUNITY INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesSTAR COMMUN…HAGERSTOWN DAY NURSERY: $1,000 · Human ServicesHAGERSTOWN …GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $8,100 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCO…Senior Living Alternatives Inc: $6,500 · Housing & ShelterIT'S A BLESSING TO BE A BLESSING: $4,000 · Food & NutritionTabithas Table Inc: $1,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC: $3,000 · HealthBROOKES HOUSE INC: $2,000 · HealthWASHINGTON COUNTY FREE LIBRARY: $4,000 · EducationWOMEN'S CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $2,850 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$46,500Human Services$8,500Youth Development$8,100Housing & Shelter$6,500Food & Nutrition$5,000Health$5,000Education$4,000Arts & Culture$3,350

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $8,100 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSenior Living Alternatives Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIT'S A BLESSING TO BE A BLESSING: $4,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY FREE LIBRARY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMASSB FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDREN IN NEED INC: $3,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWOMEN'S CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $2,850 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBROOKES HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRELIGIOUS EFFORT TO ASSIST AND CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC (REACH): $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTabithas Table Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMount Hope Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $500 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.

The Community Foundat…Alice V & David W Fle…The Hamilton Family F…The John R Hershey an…Richard N Funkhouser …The Jone L Bowman Fou…Delaplaine Foundation…The Mathias Washingto…Agnita M Stine Schrei…Kershner Sisters Foun…Nora Roberts Foundati…The Richmond Lee Down…
The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland IncMD30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc · Alice V & David W Fletcher Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Family Foundation Inc · The John R Hershey and Anna L Hershey Family Foundation Inc · Richard N Funkhouser Foundationinc · The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · The Mathias Washington County Charitable Trust · Agnita M Stine Schreiber Foundation · Kershner Sisters Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Richmond Lee Downey Foundation

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 W Lee & Rosalie Ridenour Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W Lee & Rosalie Ridenour Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Washington County Museum of Fine Arts: 2% of income from government
  • Star Community Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 W Lee & Rosalie Ridenour 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 31 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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