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Arthur N Rupe Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
85% of Arthur N Rupe Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 18 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Arthur N Rupe Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 20 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $632k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $804k
- $250k+1 grant · $515k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $515,000 |
| NATIONAL SPEECH & DEBATE ASSOCIATION | $158,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA | $125,000 |
| HOSPICE OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY | $120,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S LOS ANGELES | $75,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO | $75,000 |
| GEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN FOUNDATION INC | $51,125 |
| VILLAGE MOVEMENT CALIFORNIA | $50,000 |
| PARAPROFESSIONAL HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| GEORGE G GLENNER ALZHEIMER'S FAMILY CENTER | $50,000 |
| MODESTO JUNIOR COLLEGE | $45,000 |
| CAMARILLO HEALTH CARE DISTRICT | $40,000 |
| ALLAN HANCOCK COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| BUTTE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $795k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2020, 18 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $369k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- RFRESPITE FOR ALL FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $525k · revenue +228% · 33% of their budget
- NFNATIONAL FORENSIC LEAGUE D/B/A NATIONAL SPEECH AND DEBATE ASSOC3× · 2020–2022 · $491k · revenue +128%
- HOHOSPICE OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY5× · 2020–2024 · $395k · revenue +77% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- CLCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF MCKEESPORTone grant, 2024 · $100k
- UUSAGINGone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -43%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $95k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To improve the quality of life for families challenged by alzheimer's disease or another dementia, through services tailored to meet individual needs.
The alliance for aging research is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the narrative to achieve healthy aging and equitable access to care.
The american college of health care administrators (achca) is the catalyst for excellence in post-acute and aging services leadership.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
University retirement community at davis provides continuing care, quality services, and diverse opportunities that enhance the lives of our residents.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
To foster a vibrant community of engaged elders seeking holistic health, wellbeing, and purposeful living.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
Our mission is to make conversations about serious illness a part of everyday life and palliative care a part of everyday health care.
The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.
The association was formed to do research and analyses and the dissemination of information to and the ongoing education and professional development of california community college faculty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Caregiver Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is Larosa Youth Development Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 76 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds RESPITE FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FORENSIC LEAGUE D/B/A NATIONAL SPEECH AND DEBATE ASSOC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds PAULINE AUBERLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CAREGIVER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE MOVEMENT CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUTTE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLAN HANCOCK COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOLO HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds ONEGENERATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN CARING ↗
- Who funds VENTURA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Council of Dementia Minds ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACOSTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds USAGING ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY ON AGING ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Foundation for California Community Colleges · Archstone Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · National Council on Aging Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Dignity Health · The James Irvine Foundation · California Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · The John a Hartford Foundation Inc · The McCune Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arthur N Rupe Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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