Connecticut · Nonprofit
RIVENDELL INSTITUTE INC
RIVENDELL INSTITUTE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,070,212 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($290,780). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $918k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Rivendell Institute Inc does
Mission
Our mission to explore the intersection of christian faith and contemporary scholarship involves three primary activities: research initiatives, spiritual formation, and hosting public conversations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our research centers focused their attention on the intersection of theology and the arts and on religion and public policy (as well as religious freedom). Programs in these areas included local, national and international consultations with scholars and experts in these respective fields, colloquia for yale faculty and students, and publications (conference papers, journal articles, etc.)
$289,652 spent44% of program spendingOur spiritual formation and mentoring activities offered a variety of large and small group programs for christian students and faculty, as well as for those interested in exploring faith. Our rivendell student fellows program featured small group discussions to help students integrate chrstian faith with academic and professional work, and personal mentoring. Our spiritual formation program included weekly large group meetings that featured the application of biblical principles to life and career, and prsentations by yale professors about their own faith journeys. Personal mentoring of individual students was also offered. Both of these mentoring programs also hosted retreats and seasonal social gatherings.
$225,392 spent34% of program spendingOur public conversations consisted of faculty roundtables, attended by yale faculty from many different academic disciplines. These events featured presentations and discussions of topics at the intersection of faith and science especially. On average, over 100 yale faculty attended.
$148,757 spent22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $663,801.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+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.
92% of RIVENDELL INSTITUTE INC’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. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $131k → $114k.
10 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 RIVENDELL INSTITUTE 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
RIVENDELL INSTITUTE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
60% 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 RIVENDELL INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 28% · 2019 23% · 2020 36% · 2021 22% · 2022 21% · 2023 24% — 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
60% of RIVENDELL INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
59% of RIVENDELL INSTITUTE 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 $439k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $631k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
RIVENDELL INSTITUTE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like RIVENDELL INSTITUTE 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 Connecticut
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RIVENDELL INSTITUTE 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds RIVENDELL INSTITUTE INC?
- RIVENDELL INSTITUTE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,070,212 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($290,780). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RIVENDELL INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,070,212 in grants to RIVENDELL INSTITUTE INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIVENDELL INSTITUTE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $290,780 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIVENDELL INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 21 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