Washington · Nonprofit
THE RIPPLE EFFECT
THE RIPPLE EFFECT (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,277 to it, the largest being CARSON FOUNDATION ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $41k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $188k
- Net assets
- $224k
What The Ripple Effect does
Mission
Provide self-sustaining aid to the ixil
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Eden ixil educational farm. Provides education and sustinence for 20 local communities
$28,823 spent36% of program spendingModel families. Educates local community with best home building and maintenance practices, as well as efficient home improvements
$19,677 spent25% of program spendingVillage water projects. Provides services to improve local water conditions and accessibility
$31,500 spent39% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $80,000.
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 2019 to 2020, from $146k to $192k (+31%).
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 THE RIPPLE EFFECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Teresa Farrell
Chair at large
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $18k → $25k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 RIPPLE EFFECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 funders by total. 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 RIPPLE EFFECT 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 92% · 2019 71% · 2020 48% · 2021 38% · 2022 58% · 2023 49% — 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
50% of THE RIPPLE EFFECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
THE RIPPLE EFFECT draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k 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.
Against its field
THE RIPPLE EFFECT's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,397 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like THE RIPPLE EFFECT
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE RIPPLE EFFECT: 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 THE RIPPLE EFFECT?
- THE RIPPLE EFFECT (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,277 to it, the largest being CARSON FOUNDATION ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE RIPPLE EFFECT have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $188,277 in grants to THE RIPPLE EFFECT, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE RIPPLE EFFECT?
- CARSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE RIPPLE EFFECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 12 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing