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RIVERSTYX FOUNDATION

RIVERSTYX FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $390,567 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($281,358). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.2M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$391k
Net assets
$6.5M
1/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Riverstyx Foundation does

Program

  1. To support other qualified charities deemed appropriate by the board of trustees. The board made charitable contributions to 46 different charities during 2024.

    $674,416 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

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 ($2.5M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($27M)2018 Revenue 103 ($2.5M) Expenses 99 ($2.1M) Net assets 102 ($27M)2019 Revenue 97 ($2.4M) Expenses 135 ($2.9M) Net assets 100 ($27M)2020 Revenue 152 ($3.8M) Expenses 102 ($2.2M) Net assets 106 ($28M)2021 Revenue 103 ($2.5M) Expenses 81 ($1.8M) Net assets 108 ($29M)2022 Revenue 97 ($2.4M) Expenses 75 ($1.6M) Net assets 111 ($30M)2023 Revenue 54 ($1.3M) Expenses 128 ($2.8M) Net assets 27 ($7.4M)2024 Revenue 50 ($1.2M) Expenses 96 ($2.1M) Net assets 24 ($6.5M)
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Revenue (50)Expenses (96)Net assets (24)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 $30M to $7.4M (−75%).

$27M
$27M
$27M
$28M
$29M
$30M
$7.4M
$6.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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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Listed44444433
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+2+0
No longer listed·0000030
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $21k → $255k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 RIVERSTYX FOUNDATION’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

RIVERSTYX FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

88% 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 RIVERSTYX FOUNDATION.

72%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

78% of RIVERSTYX FOUNDATION'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 $84k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.

IL
NY
NJ
AZ

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $306k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

RIVERSTYX FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve4.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−10% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like RIVERSTYX FOUNDATION

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds RIVERSTYX FOUNDATION?
RIVERSTYX FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $390,567 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($281,358). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does RIVERSTYX FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $390,567 in grants to RIVERSTYX FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RIVERSTYX FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $281,358 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RIVERSTYX FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 6 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