Ryker’s Rainbow · Huntsville, Alabama
From grief, we grow light.
Born from the Schoff family’s loss of Ryker, Ryker’s Rainbow surrounds families experiencing pregnancy, baby, and child loss with remembrance, practical care, and tender community.
The Beginning
A family’s grief became a place for others to feel held.
On June 20, 2020, at 37 weeks, Ryker was born into the arms of the Schoff family. Before they could bring him home, they had to say an impossible goodbye. The silence that followed was heavy, but so was their deep resolve that Ryker’s name would forever be tethered to gentle love and enduring light.
Instead of retreating into solitary sorrow, they transformed their loss into an open sanctuary for parents navigating the raw heartbreak of pregnancy, baby, and child loss across Huntsville and north Alabama.
Ryker · June 20, 2020 · 37 weeks
“Ryker’s story continues through every family met with compassion, remembrance, and care.”
The Schoff Family · Huntsville, AL
The Work
Support can be something you can hold.
Ryker’s Rainbow meets families in tender moments with practical care, shared remembrance, and a community that never looks away.
Comfort For The Journey
Blessing Boxes
Carefully curated Blessing Boxes are prepared and hand-delivered to hospitals and bereaved parents. Each box provides tangible comfort items, gentle keepsake materials, and guided resources that validate unimaginable grief in the earliest hours.
Provided free of charge to bereaved families in north Alabama hospitals
Remembering Together
Remembrance Events
Hosted quarterly in our quiet community prayer garden, these gatherings welcome parents, siblings, and extended families to read names, light candles, and share quiet presence with others walking the very same path.
Quarterly gatherings held in our Huntsville Community Prayer Garden
Farm to Table(aux)
A table set for remembrance, imagination, and impact.
Our annual benefit pairs a community farm-to-table banquet with living-art tableaux inspired by Andy Warhol. It is an evening where heartfelt grief and spirited community action sit side by side.
$26,500 raised
Live painter Michael Israel, celebrated for the 9/11 tribute masterpiece HERO, completed a dramatic live canvas during the event that raised $26,500 directly funding community loss initiatives.
See how the community shows up
Stand With Grieving Families
No family should have to carry loss alone.
Together, we can honor Ryker, surround families with unwavering care, and keep growing light in the places grief has touched.
Ryker’s Rainbow · Huntsville, Alabama · 501(c)(3) Nonprofit