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Ricks Place Inc

Ricks Place Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,357 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($63,150). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$373k
Revenue FY2024
13
Funders on record
$207k
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
7/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%

Against its field

Ricks Place Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,584 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin35% · top quartile
Months of reserve27.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($95k) Expenses 100 ($78k) Net assets 100 ($70k)2018 Revenue 283 ($269k) Expenses 138 ($108k) Net assets 329 ($230k)2019 Revenue 225 ($214k) Expenses 153 ($120k) Net assets 480 ($335k)2020 Revenue 204 ($195k) Expenses 155 ($122k) Net assets 616 ($430k)2021 Revenue 235 ($224k) Expenses 157 ($123k) Net assets 806 ($563k)2022 Revenue 352 ($336k) Expenses 206 ($162k) Net assets 983 ($686k)2023 Revenue 404 ($385k) Expenses 322 ($252k) Net assets 1240 ($866k)2024 Revenue 391 ($373k) Expenses 311 ($244k) Net assets 1467 ($1.0M)
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Revenue (391)Expenses (311)Net assets (1467)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 26% · 2021 6% · 2024 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

84% of Ricks Place Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,813 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
17
$161k
18
$94k
19
$73k
20
$101k
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$174k
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$133k
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$129k
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27
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $9k → $45k.

5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)72% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Ricks Place Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

Ricks Place Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

72% 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 Ricks Place Inc.

30%
largest funder
69%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 95% · 2019 85% · 2020 40% · 2021 58% · 2022 28% · 2023 34%diversifying over time.

“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

33% of Ricks Place Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

72% of Ricks Place Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $58k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

IL
MA
RI
NC
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding Ricks Place Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $786k on record — $100k federal, $686k state.

Federal$100k
grants $100kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$100k
State$686k
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Top programs
  • (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$585k
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$100k
  • (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$1k

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 Ricks Place Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 17%Fundraising 15%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ricks Place Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Ricks Place Inc?
Ricks Place Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,357 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($63,150). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Ricks Place Inc have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $207,357 in grants to Ricks Place Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Ricks Place Inc?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $63,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Ricks Place Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 13funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing