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RIDLEY COLLEGE FUND USA INC

RIDLEY COLLEGE FUND USA INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $465,125 to it, the largest being WEATHERTOP FOUNDATION F/K/A THOMAS NELSON URBAN JR ($220,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.1M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$465k
Net assets
$7.8M
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Ridley College Fund USA Inc does

Mission

To provide educational assistance to students.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The fund manages the endowed assets used to grant scholarships to students based on financial need and academic merit. The fund also offers financial assistance to ridley college (a not for profit private school based in canada) to supplant operating needs. In the current year, the fund distributed 21 scholarships/bursaries to students of ridley college.

    $1,732,357 spentof which $1,731,009 as grants$219,908 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,732,357.

02The 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 ($451k) Expenses 100 ($393k) Net assets 100 ($6.6M)2018 Revenue 111 ($501k) Expenses 113 ($444k) Net assets 101 ($6.6M)2019 Revenue 158 ($714k) Expenses 104 ($411k) Net assets 108 ($7.1M)2021 Revenue 174 ($785k) Expenses 200 ($787k) Net assets 119 ($7.9M)2022 Revenue 596 ($2.7M) Expenses 616 ($2.4M) Net assets 103 ($6.8M)2023 Revenue 725 ($3.3M) Expenses 909 ($3.6M) Net assets 106 ($7.0M)2024 Revenue 670 ($3.0M) Expenses 779 ($3.1M) Net assets 113 ($7.5M)2025 Revenue 473 ($2.1M) Expenses 458 ($1.8M) Net assets 118 ($7.8M)
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Revenue (473)Expenses (458)Net assets (118)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $7.9M to $6.8M (−13%).

$6.6M
$6.6M
$7.1M
$7.9M
$6.8M
$7.0M
$7.5M
$7.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

72% of RIDLEY COLLEGE FUND USA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$57k
’17
$57k
’18
$303k
’19
−$2k
’21
$263k
’22
−$306k
’23
−$42k
’24
$330k
’25
2.8
months of
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.

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Listed1314141415151514
Joined·+1+2·+1+0+1+0
No longer listed·02·0011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $120k.

4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 RIDLEY COLLEGE FUND USA 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

RIDLEY COLLEGE FUND USA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

53% 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 RIDLEY COLLEGE FUND USA INC.

47%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 86% · 2022 55% · 2023 85% — 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.

Where its funders are

53% of RIDLEY COLLEGE FUND USA 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 $220k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 1 state.

VA

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

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’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $245k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RIDLEY COLLEGE FUND USA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

43%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds RIDLEY COLLEGE FUND USA INC?
RIDLEY COLLEGE FUND USA INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $465,125 to it, the largest being WEATHERTOP FOUNDATION F/K/A THOMAS NELSON URBAN JR ($220,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does RIDLEY COLLEGE FUND USA INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $465,125 in grants to RIDLEY COLLEGE FUND USA INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RIDLEY COLLEGE FUND USA INC?
WEATHERTOP FOUNDATION F/K/A THOMAS NELSON URBAN JR is the largest funder on record, with $220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RIDLEY COLLEGE FUND USA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing