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RURAL INVESTMENT TO PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT

EIN 86-3977878 WASHINGTON, DC

Largest nonprofits in District of Columbia

Revenue 2025
$516,944
Expenses 2025
$688,902

Program services were 59.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C01
Classification
1000
Street
1717 N ST NW STE 1

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

More than 50 organizations in the IRS Business Master File share this street address, so they are not listed here. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 1). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

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 · 2025

Mission

RIPE'S MISSION IS TO ADVANCE A FAIR VALUE FOR VOLUNTARY AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP.

  • GENERAL PROGRAMS SUPPORT GENERAL OPERATIONS AND STANDING PROGRAMS THAT INCLUDE EDUCATION, OUTREACH, RESEARCH, AND COMMUNICATIONS. PRIMARY EDUCATION AND OUTREACH EFFORTS INCLUDE MAINTENANCE AND GROWTH OF A FARMER AND RANCHER COALITION THAT INCLUDES A STEERING COMMITTEE, PRODUCER LEADER ADVISORY NETWORK, AND INCLUSION, DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND ACCESS (IDEA) COMMITTEE. RESEARCH IS FOCUSED ON CRITICAL ISSUES IDENTIFIED BY THE FARMER AND RANCHER COALITION AND IS USED TO SUPPORT ADDITIONAL EDUCATION AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES. COMMUNICATIONS INCLUDE WEBSITE MANAGEMENT, NEWSLETTERS, BLOGS, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND STORYTELLING.

    Expenses $400,539

  • OTHER: LOBBYING AND ANNUAL MEETING

    Expenses $6,380

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Fred Cooke

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $128,382
    From this org
    $128,382
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • William Beam

    PRESIDENT UNTIL EARLY 2025

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Alana Petersen

    VICE PRESIDENT UNTIL EARLY 2025 PRESIDENT THEREAFTER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Stratton Kirton

    SECRETARY UNTIL EARLY 2025 AND VICE PRESIDENT THEREAFTER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Tracy Travis

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Eunice Biel

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Christine Stearn

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Brandon Hunnicutt

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Loston Rowe

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $516,944
    Expenses
    $688,902
    Contributions
    $516,923
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,265,187
    Expenses
    $950,067
    Contributions
    $1,265,170
    Grants paid
    $50
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $639,706
    Expenses
    $353,813
    Contributions
    $638,705
    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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2021

Tax period
1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021
Principal officer
Aliza Drewes
Mailing address
2316 Rhode Island Ave NEWashington DC 20018
Website
www.riperoadmap.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 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

  • MULTIPLIER

    $386,501

    2022 SUPPORT ADVANCEMENT OF NATIONAL DIALOGUE FOR BIPARTISAN, COMPREHENSIVE,... COMMON-SENSE CLIMATE POLICY THAT INTEGRATES FAIR AND FORWARD-LOOKING AGRICULTURAL SOLUTIONS.

  • 2023 SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.