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Rippleworks

Name: Rippleworks grants, 2021–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

374
grants reported: $285.1M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $50,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

capital human enable recruit retain impact high maintain

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Scaling social ventures in Africa, India, Latin America
Smallholder farmer income, agriculture inputs, food systems
Early childhood and foundational literacy programs in low-resource communities
Community health, maternal care, mental health delivery in emerging markets
Off-grid solar, safe water, sanitation ventures
Small community grants near San Francisco, Seattle, DC

Typical grant

Median grant is $50,000 and the middle half runs from a few hundred dollars to $500,000, but the money is bunched at the top: one $91.8 million general support grant to A Khmer Buddhist Foundation and a $10 million grant to Windward Fund dominate the four-year total. Venture-level checks cluster tightly at $100,000, $500,000, $2 million, $3 million and $5 million, which suggests fixed tiers rather than custom budgets. Repeat giving is heavy and often within the same year: We Care Solar took $3M, $500K and $100K in 2024, and Inkomoko, Ujamaa, Rocket Learning, Semilla Nueva, Development Media International, Sanku and One Heart Worldwide all appear more than once.

Positioning adjacent work

Frame work as a venture that scales delivery, not a study; they fund operators and their teams.
Ask $100,000 if the pitch is sustaining existing programs, $500,000 if it is hiring and retaining staff.
Connect to smallholder farmer income, early learning, or frontline health delivery, their three densest venture clusters.
If you are US-based and local, the community tier is $25,000 to $50,000 in SF, Seattle, or DC.

Worth knowing: A single $91.8 million grant is about a third of everything on file, and the venture portfolio looks like a closed set that Rippleworks already works with rather than an open field, with the same names recurring in multiple tranches per year. Many recipients carry US or Delaware addresses but operate in Kenya, Rwanda, India, Zambia, Cameroon and Guatemala, and several are Ltd or LLC entities, so they are comfortable with expenditure responsibility and non-501(c)(3) structures.SUPPORT.

12 grants matching “retain” · $5.5M

$500,000
Absolute Return for Kids (Peepul) · 2024
To enable peepul to recruit and retain human capital
$500,000
Development Media International · 2024
To enable dmi to recruit and retain human capital
$500,000
Ea Foods Limited · 2024
To enable ea foods to recruit and retain human capital
$500,000
Ggem Farming (Tranche #1) · 2024
To enable ggem farming to recruit and retain human capital
$500,000
Hala Systems · Wilmington, DE · 2024
To enable hala systems to recruit and retain human capital
$500,000
Warc Ghana Limited · Dover, DE · 2024
To enable grantee to recruit and retain human capital
$250,000
Wezesha Impact Limited · 2024
To enable grantee to recruit and retain human capital
$500,000
Zvandiri · 2023
To enable the grantee to recruit and retain human capital for the performance of services exclusively in furtherance of charitable purposes.
$500,000
Forest Carbon Pte Ltd · 2023
To enable the grantee to recruit and retain human capital for the performance of services exclusively in furtherance of charitable purposes.
$500,000
Natural Extracts Industries Limited · 2023
To enable the grantee to recruit and retain human capital for the performance of services exclusively in furtherance of charitable purposes.
$500,000
Magic Bus India Foundation · 2023
To enable the grantee to recruit and retain human capital for the performance of services exclusively in furtherance of charitable purposes.
$250,000
Wezesha Impact Limited · 2023
To enable the grantee to recruit and retain human capital for the performance of services exclusively in furtherance of charitable purposes.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

A Khmer Buddhist Foundation1 grant · $91.8M
World Resources Institute1 grant · $20.0M
Windward Fund1 grant · $10.0M
Food for Education2 grants · $5.5M
Inkomoko3 grants · $5.2M
The Luminos Fund4 grants · $3.6M
We Care Solar3 grants · $3.6M
Mercy Corps2 grants · $3.6M
Noora Health2 grants · $3.5M
Development Media International2 grants · $3.5M

Giving over time

$38.1M

2021

$52.7M

2022

$40.4M

2023

$153.8M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 374 grants.

$91.8M
A Khmer Buddhist Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General support
$20.0M
World Resources Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
$10.0M
Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$5.0M
Food for Education · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$5.0M
Inkomoko · Clinton, WA · 2024
General support
$3.5M
Noora Health · San Francisco, CA · 2021
General support
$3.0M
Covaagua · Saint Paul, MN · 2024
General support
$3.0M
Development Media International · 2024
To support dmi in conducting evidence-based social behaviour change (sbc) campaigns
$3.0M
Project Healthy Children (Sanku) · Westborough, MA · 2024
General support
$3.0M
Smartstart · 2024
To support grantees affordable, accessible, and high-quality early learning programs for low-resource communities in south africa.
$3.0M
We Care Solar · Berkeley, CA · 2024
General support
$3.0M
Acceso Impact · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General support
$3.0M
Bridges To Prosperity · Denver, CO · 2023
General support
$3.0M
Commonlit · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
$3.0M
Friends of Solid Africa · 2023
General support
$3.0M
Springboard Collaborative · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General support
$3.0M
The Luminos Fund · Boston, MA · 2023
General support
$3.0M
Healthy Kids Brighter Future Inc Dba Healthy Learners · Brunswick, ME · 2022
General support
$3.0M
Code for America · San Francisco, CA · 2021
General support
$3.0M
Myagro · New York, NY · 2021
General support
$2.7M
Spark Microgrants · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$2.5M
Mafisa Community Transformation Trust Ltd · 2024
To expand mafisas climate and veterinary program in zambia.
$2.5M
Rocket Learning Foundation · Wilmington, DE · 2024
General support
$2.5M
Lwala Community Alliance · Nashville, TN · 2023
General support
$2.5M
Magic Bus India Foundation · 2023
To support the grantee's scaling efforts to bring life skill education to youth.
$2.5M
Food for Education Foundation · Spokane, WA · 2022
General support
$2.5M
Generation You Employed · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
$2.5M
Imagine Worldwide · Mill Valley, CA · 2022
General support
$2.5M
The Nudge Foundation · Irving, TX · 2022
General support
$2.5M
Think of US · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
$2.5M
Global Health Corps · New York, NY · 2021
General support
$2.4M
Supporting Initiatives To Redistribute Unused Medicine (Sirum) · Palo Alto, CA · 2021
General support
$2.0M
Kheyti · Short Hills, NJ · 2024
General support
$2.0M
One Heart Worldwide · Hoover, AL · 2024
General support
$2.0M
Ujamaa Dba Manasseh'S Children · 2024
General support
$2.0M
Earthenable · Weston, MA · 2023
General support
$2.0M
Friendship Bench · 2023
To fund the grantee's national scale efforts
$2.0M
Jan Sahas · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
$2.0M
Center for Technology & Civic Life · Chicago, IL · 2021
General support
$2.0M
Digital Green Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2021
General support
$2.0M
Integrate Health · Medway, MA · 2021
General support
$2.0M
International Refugee Assistance Project · New York, NY · 2021
General support
$1.8M
Mercy Corps · Portland, OR · 2022
To improve access to and use of responsible financial services to drive financial inclusion for underserved populations.
$1.8M
Mercy Corps · Portland, OR · 2021
To improve access to and use of responsible financial services to drive financial inclusion for underserved populations.
$1.6M
One Acre Fund US · Brooklyn, NY · 2021
General support
$1.5M
Tenderloin Community Benefit District (Tlcbd) · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support tlcbds raising of capital to support tlcbds purchase of the building
$1.5M
Language & Learning Foundation · 2023
To support the grantee's ability to scale its impact in india.
$1.5M
Semilla Nueva · Boise, ID · 2022
General support
$1.5M
Pivot Works · Randolph, MA · 2021
General support
$1.5M
Strongminds · Maplewood, NJ · 2021
General support
$1.2M
Humanitarian Open Streetmap Team · Washington, DC · 2021
General support
$1.0M
Ggem Farming (Tranche #2) · Dover, DE · 2023
To support grantee's work with smallholder farmers and growing their incomes sustainably.
$1.0M
Ggem Farming (Tranche #1) · Dover, DE · 2022
To support grantee's work with smallholder farmers and growing their incomes sustainably.
$875,000
The Sfcdma Community Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2021
To stimulate and support economic development in economically depressed urban areas of san francisco inhabited by disadvantaged groups.
$833,335
Brac USA · New York, NY · 2021
To accelerate brac's work to enable government adoption and scale of the graduation approach, lifting 4.6m households (approx. 21m people) out of ultra poverty and pulling millions more on the path.
$750,000
Farm To Thrive · 2024
To support grasslands work increasing the incomes of smallholder farmers in cameroon
$750,000
Amani Global Works · New York, NY · 2022
To bring integrated primary healthcare services to rural communities in the democratic republic of congo.
$750,000
Savelife Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$750,000
Savelife Foundation · New York, NY · 2021
General support
$500,000
Absolute Return for Kids (Peepul) · 2024
To enable peepul to recruit and retain human capital
$500,000
Bridges To Prosperity · Denver, CO · 2024
General support
$500,000
Development Media International · 2024
To enable dmi to recruit and retain human capital
$500,000
Ea Foods Limited · 2024
To enable ea foods to recruit and retain human capital
$500,000
Earthenable · Weston, MA · 2024
General support
$500,000
Friends of Solid Africa · 2024
General support
$500,000
Ggem Farming (Tranche #1) · 2024
To enable ggem farming to recruit and retain human capital
$500,000
Hala Systems · Wilmington, DE · 2024
To enable hala systems to recruit and retain human capital
$500,000
Language and Learning Foundation · 2024
General support
$500,000
Lwala Community Alliance · Nashville, TN · 2024
General support
$500,000
Recividiz · Oakland, CA · 2024
General support
$500,000
Rocket Learning · Wilmington, DE · 2024
General support
$500,000
Semilla Nueva · 2024
General support
$500,000
Sirum · Covina, CA · 2024
General support
$500,000
Ujamaa Dba Manasseh'S Children · 2024
General support
$500,000
Warc Ghana Limited · Dover, DE · 2024
To enable grantee to recruit and retain human capital
$500,000
We Care Solar · Berkeley, CA · 2024
General support
$500,000
Within Reach · Boston, MA · 2024
General support
$500,000
Acceso Impact · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General support
$500,000
Amani Global Works · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$500,000
Commonlit · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
$500,000
Food for Education · Milwuakee, WI · 2023
General support
$500,000
Forest Carbon Pte Ltd · 2023
To enable the grantee to recruit and retain human capital for the performance of services exclusively in furtherance of charitable purposes.
$500,000
Friendship Bench · 2023
General support
$500,000
Healthy Kids Brighter Future Inc Dba Healthy Learners · Brunswick, ME · 2023
General support
$500,000
Imagine Worldwide · Mill Valley, CA · 2023
General support
$500,000
Jaza Energy · 2023
Talent support and human capital project
$500,000
Kheyti · Short Hills, NJ · 2023
General support
$500,000
Magic Bus India Foundation · 2023
To enable the grantee to recruit and retain human capital for the performance of services exclusively in furtherance of charitable purposes.
$500,000
Maisha Meds · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General support
$500,000
Myagro · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$500,000
Natural Extracts Industries Limited · 2023
To enable the grantee to recruit and retain human capital for the performance of services exclusively in furtherance of charitable purposes.
$500,000
Spark Microgrants · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$500,000
Springboard Collaborative · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General support
$500,000
Tenderloin Community Benefit District (Tlcbd) · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support the grantee's raising of capital to support the purchase of a community center building and to be used in furtherance of the grantee's mission and charitable purposes.
$500,000
The Luminos Fund · Boston, MA · 2023
General support
$500,000
The Nudge Foundation · Irving, TX · 2023
General support
$500,000
Zvandiri · 2023
To enable the grantee to recruit and retain human capital for the performance of services exclusively in furtherance of charitable purposes.
$500,000
Babban Gona Farmer Services Nigeria Ltd · 2022
Talent support and human capital project
$500,000
Clinica Del Azucar Sapi De Cv · 2022
Talent support and human capital project
$500,000
Digital Green Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General support

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.