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FY 2024

Verified NonprofitLast Filed 2024EIN 52-2310500

Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc

BALTIMORE, MDNTEE: B99Founded 2001Website

mission statement

Led by former baseball greats, cal ripken, JR. And bill ripken, the cal ripken SR. Foundation, INC., through active community partnerships with america's most successful youth service organizations, teaches underserved children from america's most distressed communities the importance of choosing a healthy lifestyle and making smart, productive decisions in their young lives. The foundation uses sports to grab the attention of these underserved children while teaching them that embracing lifelong character traits such as perseverance, commitment, developing good nutritional habits and giving back to their communities will expose them to opportunities and experiences that will help them become successful, contributing members of society. The foundation not only trains local community leaders to be successful mentors to children and to implement the foundation's youth development programs, but also provides funding, character education materials and equipment to these communities.

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Total Revenue

$28.4M

FY 2024

Program Spending

81.3%

of total expenses

Known Funders

120

2019–2024 filings

Key Metrics (FY 2024)

The Numbers

$28.4M

Total Assets

$22.7M net

10.59 mo

Operating Reserves

FY 2024

Active Programs

FY 2024

Total Employees

FY 2024

Funding Track Record

Backed by 120 Institutional Funders

$25.8M raised across 239 grants · +$3.1M committed (2019–2024 filings)

Funder Geography

Funders across 31 states (2019–2024 filings)

Institutional Funding by Year

PaidCommittedBoth

Funder	Location	Total Awarded
Turn 2 Foundation Inc	Cleveland, OH	$4,819,825
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund	BOSTON, MA	$3,189,775
1 Peter 410 Inc	HEARNE, TX	$2,735,775
The Kahlert Foundation Inc	SYKESVILLE, MD	$1,843,179
Arundel Community Development Services Inc	ANNAPOLIS, MD	$1,535,815
Exelon Foundation	CHICAGO, IL	$1,000,000 +$3,000,000 committed
Telescope Fund	WASHINGTON, DC	$900,000
The Way Foundation Inc	HANOVER, PA	$622,500
The McNaughton Foundation	EDMONDS, WA	$605,233
Local Initiatives Support Corporation	NEW YORK, NY	$500,000

Total tracked: $25,798,360 across 239 grants · +$3,115,000 committed across 4 commitments (2019–2024 filings)

Totals reflect grants as reported on funder tax returns. Timing may not match recipient revenue: funder and recipient fiscal years often differ, and grants paid by a funder in one year may be recognized by the recipient in a different year.

Programs (FY 2024)

What They Do

$10.9M in expenses

Provide cash and equipment funding to organizations working with youth in their communities. The foundation also engages law enforcement officials in these and other communities (including the u.s. Marshals service) to ACT as mentors and coaches for youth as part of the foundation's "badges for baseball" program. The goal is to display law enforcement officials as friends and positive role models, not people who youth only become engaged with in troubled times. In addition, through our national STEM initiative, we give youth access to elementary and middle school STEM education. In each ripken STEM center program, we provide educational STEM products; technology; training for educators/mentors; curriculum and lesson plans, and furniture at schools and community-based organizations across the country.

$8.5M in expenses

Design and facilitate the creation of youth development parks, throughout the country which are in need of a safe place for children to play and grow. The foundation partners with local organizations to build multi-purpose, synthetic surface facilities that serve as classrooms for many of the lessons the foundation teaches through our "badges for baseball and "healthy choices, healthy children" character education programs. These parks are state-of-the-art facilities that are attractive, safe, fun, educational and stimulating for kids of all ages. Each facility is customized to meet the needs within the community for those who live and play there. In 2024, we were able to impact over 1.4 million kids through our programming.

$1.4M in expenses

Provide a "major league-style" overnight camp experience for youth from around the country at the foundation's youth baseball facility in aberdeen, MD. Foundation staff teach baseball the "ripken way" while reinforcing the values taught in the "healthy choices, healthy children" curriculum. The youth also participate in a number of activities at the overnight camp location including ropes courses, swimming, basketball and character-building games. The foundation also conducts mini-camps and clinics at partner sites throughout the country which are similar to the baseball portion of the overnight camp in aberdeen.

Financial History