Maine · Nonprofit
RIPPLE EFFECT PROJECT
RIPPLE EFFECT PROJECT (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,630 to it, the largest being doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation ($41,585). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $76k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $101k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Ripple Effect Project does
Mission
Ripple Effect Project is dedicated to supporting the self sustainable agricultural and educational endeavors of independent orphanages in sub- saharan africa.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Ripple Effect Project sent emergency funds to support the feeding of children at the dolfine korando children's learning centre. Many students did not have a food source due to the ramifications of their unstable social, political and economic environment . Dolfine korando children's learning centre delivers food to orphans and students.
2.education - Ripple Effect Project provided funds for the education budget at the dofine korando children's learning centre. This budget includes staffing teachers, counselors, administration, food workers, and security. It also includes school supply money.
$64,180 spent88% of program spendingInfrastructure - funds were also sent for new dormitory structures and renovations that were required by the ministry of education. This was required in order to allow students to come back to school after the holiday break.
$2,620 spent4% of program spendingOthers including medical expenses for children.
$6,335 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $73,135.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $85k to $53k (−38%).
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.
100% of RIPPLE EFFECT PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $30k → $21k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 EFFECT PROJECT’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 EFFECT PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 RIPPLE EFFECT PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 67% · 2019 68% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
54% of RIPPLE EFFECT PROJECT'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 $47k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
RIPPLE EFFECT PROJECT has grown faster than half of the 2,933 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,933 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like RIPPLE EFFECT PROJECT
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RIPPLE EFFECT PROJECT: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds RIPPLE EFFECT PROJECT?
- RIPPLE EFFECT PROJECT (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,630 to it, the largest being doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation ($41,585). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RIPPLE EFFECT PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $100,630 in grants to RIPPLE EFFECT PROJECT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIPPLE EFFECT PROJECT?
- doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $41,585 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIPPLE EFFECT PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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