Delaware · Private foundation
Bill and Dinah Ruch Family 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.
- $500k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Bill and Dinah Ruch Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $500k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $650k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $875k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $540k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $48k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $460k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $375k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $384k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute | $1,780,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Thinking Nation Corp | $910,000 | 4 | 72% |
| Bright Star Schools | $555,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration | $340,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Inner City Law Center | $300,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center | $100,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Live Oak Wilderness Camp | $60,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc | $59,400 | 3 | 1% |
| The St Bernard Project Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Girls Athletic Leadership Schools | $25,000 | 1 | 45% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute | $1,780,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Thinking Nation Corp | $910,000 | 4 | 72% |
| Bright Star Schools | $555,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration | $340,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Inner City Law Center | $300,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center | $100,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Live Oak Wilderness Camp | $60,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc | $59,400 | 3 | 1% |
| The St Bernard Project Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Girls Athletic Leadership Schools | $25,000 | 1 | 45% |
| Southern California Public Radio | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Blue Jay Jazz Foundation | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Bill and Dinah Ruch Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Bill and Dinah Ruch Family Foundation
- How much does Bill and Dinah Ruch Family Foundation give?
- Bill and Dinah Ruch Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $500,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bill and Dinah Ruch Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (43%), Education (36%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
- Who are Bill and Dinah Ruch Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute ($1.8M), Thinking Nation Corp ($910k), Bright Star Schools ($555k).
- Does Bill and Dinah Ruch Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bill and Dinah Ruch Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bill and Dinah Ruch Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Bill and Dinah Ruch Family Foundation based?
- Bill and Dinah Ruch Family Foundation is based in DE.
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