Ohio · Nonprofit
THE RIDGE PROJECT INC
THE RIDGE PROJECT INC (Ohio) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $391,463 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($150,900). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $391k
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What The Ridge Project Inc does
Mission
To establish a path of honor, discipline, and integrity; by way of education, motivation, and inspiration; in order to lead families into a future defined by hope, peace, and righteousness for generations to come.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adult programs: the adult division primarily serves clients in ohio who are (or were) incarcerated. We provide training, resources, and ongoing support to equip men and women with the character, life skills, and employment training necessary to be responsible parents and spouses, better communicators, reliable employees, positive leaders, and assets to their communities.
$3,426,671 spent63% of program spendingYouth programs: the ridge project's youth programs provide positive youth development, promote and encourage healthy lifestyle choices, and offer sexual risk avoidance education to middle and high school youth in schools, as well as in juvenile correction facilities in northwest ohio. Specifically, tyro youth teaches goal setting, leadership development, drug/alcohol use/abuse resistance, and sexual risk avoidance. In addition to classroom services, the youth programs include a student leadership group called the ohio youth congress (oyc) that meets after school monthly to discuss civic duty and leadership skills, and conducts field trips and community service projects. The ridge project's youth division also hosts film camps where teams of youth compete to develop public service announcements geared towards their peers.
$1,534,659 spent28% of program spendingSocial enterprise: we created a wholly-owned subsidiary company called tyro support services (tss). Tyro support services develops curriculum and programs designed to serve families, as well as supplementary resources and materials for service providers. Tss markets and sells those programs and services to non-profit, government, and social-service entities around the country.
$495,134 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,456,464.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $2.6M to $3.2M (+24%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 85% · 2020 88% · 2021 86% · 2022 86% · 2023 73% · 2024 79% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of THE RIDGE PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Collins Asonya
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $34k → $141k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 THE RIDGE PROJECT 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
THE RIDGE PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 THE RIDGE PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 55% · 2019 66% · 2020 58% · 2021 45% · 2022 30% · 2023 58% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of THE RIDGE PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
58% of THE RIDGE PROJECT INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k 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
THE RIDGE PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE RIDGE PROJECT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $32.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$20.0M
- Department of Labor$9.5M
- Department of Justice$2.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE RIDGE PROJECT 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Tyro Support Services LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE RIDGE PROJECT INC?
- THE RIDGE PROJECT INC (Ohio) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $391,463 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($150,900). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE RIDGE PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $391,463 in grants to THE RIDGE PROJECT INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE RIDGE PROJECT INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE RIDGE PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 11 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