Maryland · Nonprofit
CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC
CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 156 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,573,340 to it, the largest being TURN 2 FOUNDATION INC ($4,819,825). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 156
- Grants received
- $35M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc does
Mission
The cal ripken, sr. Foundation helps to strengthen america's most underserved and distressed communities by supporting and advocating for children, building youth development parks, partnering with law enforcement and youth service agencies, giving kids access to stem education, and addressing community needs through our national program initiatives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provide cash and equipment funding to organizations working with youth in their communities. The foundation also engages law enforcement officials in these and other communities (including the u.s. Marshals service) to act as mentors and coaches for youth as part of the foundation's "badges for baseball" program. The goal is to display law enforcement officials as friends and positive role models, not people who youth only become engaged with in troubled times. In addition, through our national stem initiative, we give youth access to elementary and middle school stem education. In each ripken stem center program, we provide educational stem products; technology; training for educators/mentors; curriculum and lesson plans, and furniture at schools and community-based organizations across the country.
$10,935,411 spentof which $1,192,142 as grants52% of program spendingDesign and facilitate the creation of youth development parks, throughout the country which are in need of a safe place for children to play and grow. The foundation partners with local organizations to build multi-purpose, synthetic surface facilities that serve as classrooms for many of the lessons the foundation teaches through our "badges for baseball and "healthy choices, healthy children" character education programs. These parks are state-of-the-art facilities that are attractive, safe, fun, educational and stimulating for kids of all ages. Each facility is customized to meet the needs within the community for those who live and play there. In 2024, we were able to impact over 1.4 million kids through our programming.
$8,488,605 spent41% of program spendingProvide a "major league-style" overnight camp experience for youth from around the country at the foundation's youth baseball facility in aberdeen, md. Foundation staff teach baseball the "ripken way" while reinforcing the values taught in the "healthy choices, healthy children" curriculum. The youth also participate in a number of activities at the overnight camp location including ropes courses, swimming, basketball and character-building games. The foundation also conducts mini-camps and clinics at partner sites throughout the country which are similar to the baseball portion of the overnight camp in aberdeen.
$1,449,768 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,873,784.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $31M to $25M (−20%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 8% · 2018 25% · 2019 21% · 2020 30% · 2021 29% · 2022 13% · 2023 6% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Stephan Salem
President & CEO
Board chair
Calvin Butler Jr Esq
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 41 funders, grant income rose $2.7M → $11M.
28 of 156 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $50k from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Goldberg Family Foundation 217-48576810). These are real filings, and they are not money CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 156 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
69% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 34% · 2019 39% · 2020 39% · 2021 27% · 2022 24% · 2023 46% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 29 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,065 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,065 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21.2M on record — $17.9M federal, $3.3M state.
- Department of Justice$17.9M
- MD$3.3M
- FL$400
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 31 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC?
- CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 156 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,573,340 to it, the largest being TURN 2 FOUNDATION INC ($4,819,825). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 156 organizations giving $34,573,340 in grants to CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC?
- TURN 2 FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,819,825 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 156 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing