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RIPPLE COMMUNITY INC

EIN 47-4828012 ALLENTOWN, PA

Revenue 2024
$846,168
Expenses 2024
$692,382

Program services were 82.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S20
Classification
1280
Street
1335 W LINDEN ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

RIPPLE COMMUNITY, INC. NURTURES COMMUNITY AND CONNECTION IN ALLENTOWN, PA BY FOSTERING A SENSE OF COMMUNITY AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS WHO HAVE TRADITIONALLY BEEN MARGINALIZED, AND BY CULTIVATING CONNECTIONS ACROSS SOCIAL BOUNDARIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO NURTURE COMMUNITY AND CONNECTION IN ALLENTOWN BY FOSTERING A SENSE OF COMMUNITY AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS WHO HAVE TRADITIONALLY BEEN MARGINALIZED AND BY CULTIVATING CONNECTIONS ACROSS SOCIAL BOUNDARIES.

  • COMMUNITY BUILDING CENTER - DAY CENTER THAT PROVIDES SOCIAL SUPPORT AND MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS FOR SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY MARGINALIZED RESIDENTS. SERVES OVER 300 RESIDENTS ANNUALLY.

    Expenses $281,821

  • RCI VILLAGE - PROVIDES PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING FOR SOCIALLY VULNERABLE AND EXTREMELY LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS. SERVES 19 HOUSEHOLDS.

    Expenses $289,773

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Sherri Binder

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $90,914
    From this org
    $90,258
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $656
    Hours/week
    40 + 5 related

  • Sara Russ

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related

  • Julie Huber

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Khristopher Gefroh

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael D'Amore

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kent Brustlin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Zachary Galloway

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Elizabeth Hepler

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tiffany Polek

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Danilo Sanchez

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charlene Smalls

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charles F Thiel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Melissa Weinstein

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $846,168
    Expenses
    $692,382
    Contributions
    $827,790
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $500,467
    Expenses
    $594,536
    Contributions
    $490,275
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $648,692
    Expenses
    $545,996
    Contributions
    $643,533
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $443,303
    Expenses
    $427,256
    Assets (EOY)
    $479,750

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $465,439
    Expenses
    $411,049
    Assets (EOY)
    $457,164

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $395,871
    Expenses
    $307,625
    Assets (EOY)
    $399,185

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $329,005
    Expenses
    $152,739
    Assets (EOY)
    $309,941

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $121,117
    Expenses
    $44,916
    Assets (EOY)
    $133,675

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $66,698
    Expenses
    $9,524
    Assets (EOY)
    $57,474

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2015

Tax period
1 October 2015 to 30 September 2016
Principal officer
John Bender
Mailing address
36 South 8th StAllentown PA 18101
Website
ripplecommunityinc.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

  • RCI VILLAGE PROPERTIES

    501(C)(3) · TO DIRECTLY SUPPORT THE MISSION OF RIPPLE COMMUNITY INC. · PA · controlled entity

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 February 2014, reinstated 15 October 2015.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.