· Private foundation
Archibald C & Frances F Rufty Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RUFTY HOLMES SENIOR CENTER | $25,000 |
| KEEP MEMORY ALIVE | $25,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| THE MEADOWS SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CATAWBA COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| SHADOW HILLS CHURCH | $15,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| THREE SQUARE | $15,000 |
| CITY MISSION OF LAS VEGAS | $10,000 |
| LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $5,000 |
| CHRIST IN THE SMOKIES | $5,000 |
| THE SHADE TREE | $5,000 |
| TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| ELON UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMThe Meadows School8× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +46%
- CCCATAWBA COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +455%
DUKE UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2025 · $145k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- BTBELL TOWER GREEN INCone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -83%
- LWLIFE WAY FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2021 · $5k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA - LAS VEGASone grant, 2018 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…
Texas wesleyan university, guided by its deep methodist heritage, provides transformational learning experiences and research opportunities to a diverse group of students to develop their full potential as individuals and as members of the…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Lincoln memorial university is a values-based learning community dedicated to providing educational experiences in the liberal arts and professional studies.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The Meadows School ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RUFTY-HOLMES SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BELL TOWER GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SHADE TREE INC ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MILITARY BOWL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Archibald C & Frances F Rufty Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Archibald C & Frances F Rufty Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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