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RIPPLE COMMUNITY INC

RIPPLE COMMUNITY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,847,129 to it, the largest being HARRY C TREXLER ESTATE ($675,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$846k
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
$612k
14/22 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Ripple Community Inc does

Mission

Ripple community, inc. Nurtures community and connection in allentown, pa by fostering a sense of community among our neighbors who have traditionally been marginalized, and by cultivating connections across social boundaries.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Community building center - day center that provides social support and meaningful relationships for socially and economically marginalized residents. Serves over 300 residents annually.

    $281,821 spent
    49% of program spending
  2. Rci village - provides permanent supportive housing for socially vulnerable and extremely low-income households. Serves 19 households.

    $289,773 spent
    51% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $571,594.

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 ($67k) Expenses 100 ($10k) Net assets 100 ($57k)2018 Revenue 182 ($121k) Expenses 472 ($45k) Net assets 233 ($134k)2019 Revenue 493 ($329k) Expenses 1604 ($153k) Net assets 539 ($310k)2020 Revenue 594 ($396k) Expenses 3230 ($308k) Net assets 689 ($396k)2021 Revenue 698 ($465k) Expenses 4316 ($411k) Net assets 784 ($450k)2022 Revenue 665 ($443k) Expenses 4486 ($427k) Net assets 790 ($454k)2023 Revenue 973 ($649k) Expenses 5733 ($546k) Net assets 960 ($552k)2024 Revenue 750 ($500k) Expenses 6243 ($595k) Net assets 797 ($458k)2025 Revenue 1269 ($846k) Expenses 7270 ($692k) Net assets 1064 ($612k)
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Revenue (1269)Expenses (7270)Net assets (1064)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 2022 to 2023, from $480k to $698k (+45%).

$57k
$134k
$310k
$399k
$457k
$480k
$698k
$552k
$709k
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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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2021 21% · 2022 5% · 2023 8% · 2024 4% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of RIPPLE COMMUNITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$57k
’17
$76k
’18
$176k
’19
$88k
’20
$54k
’21
$16k
’22
$103k
’23
−$94k
’24
$154k
’25
11
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.

Chief executive

Sherri Binder

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed121099121213
Joined·+2+2+1+3+1+1
No longer listed·431010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $10k → $188k.

5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 RIPPLE COMMUNITY 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

RIPPLE COMMUNITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

37%
largest funder
59%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 28% · 2020 25% · 2021 46% · 2022 36% · 2023 58% — 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

78% of RIPPLE COMMUNITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

86% of RIPPLE COMMUNITY INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

MN
IL
PA
NJ
MO

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

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’19
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’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $263k 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

RIPPLE COMMUNITY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Months of reserve11.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)37% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like RIPPLE COMMUNITY 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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 6%Fundraising 11%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Rci Village Properties · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds RIPPLE COMMUNITY INC?
RIPPLE COMMUNITY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,847,129 to it, the largest being HARRY C TREXLER ESTATE ($675,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RIPPLE COMMUNITY INC have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,847,129 in grants to RIPPLE COMMUNITY INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RIPPLE COMMUNITY INC?
HARRY C TREXLER ESTATE is the largest funder on record, with $675,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RIPPLE COMMUNITY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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