Riponfest Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833113490
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2025
- Location
- Ripon, WI, USA
- Phone
- 9202990757
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $45,851
- Expenses
- $36,739
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Community, Neighborhood Development
What it reported funding in 2025
The foundation reported 2 grants totaling $1,327. The stated grant purposes included money given for ripon k9 unit to train the k9 dog to aggressively indicate the odors of heroin cocaine marijuana and methamphetamine. track for lost people or suspects and to upgrade the electric in the park in ripon for the community park.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. The foundation's positive operating resources came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 100% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filing identifies who received its grants and the filing clearly reports transactions involving insiders. A relatively small share of spending goes to grants and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
- Cost Efficiency: 4
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 84
- Endowment Health: 79
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: Limited
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 4; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 17 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Missing
- Excess business holdings: Missing
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 7; rating input score 78
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 11.39; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: Filed payout detail
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 79th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 7 of 9 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Cost Efficiency: Grant expense ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Assets equal liabilities and net assets did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Balance sheet eoy total did not reconcile in the filed values.