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Bob and Ruthie Harrell 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.

$211k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2024
24
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 28
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$4.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Bob and Ruthie Harrell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
EducationHealthReligionHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving25$211k16%
FY202324$182k38%
FY202228$125k89%
FY20214$7kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$151kHealth$138kHuman Services$73kInternational$53kEducation$50kHousing & Shelter$18kFood & Nutrition$15kCivil Rights$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
NJ
UT
VA
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Orlando Health Foundation Inc$70,00030%
Walking the Text$60,00025%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$40,50040%
Better Man Ministries Inc$22,50023%
Grace Medical Home Inc$22,00020%
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$18,0003n/a
Nathaniel's Hope Inc$17,60040%
Choices Women's Clinic Inc$15,10030%
Orlando Union Rescue Mission Inc$15,00030%
Florida Family Voice Inc$15,00021%
Show all 32 grantees
All grantees of Bob and Ruthie Harrell Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Orlando Health Foundation Inc$70,00030%
Walking the Text$60,00025%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$40,50040%
Better Man Ministries Inc$22,50023%
Grace Medical Home Inc$22,00020%
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$18,0003n/a
Nathaniel's Hope Inc$17,60040%
Choices Women's Clinic Inc$15,10030%
Orlando Union Rescue Mission Inc$15,00030%
Florida Family Voice Inc$15,00021%
Foundation for Life Ministries Inc$15,00032%
Dunklin Memorial Church Inc$15,0003n/a
Harbor House of Central Florida Inc$15,00030%
Pine Castle Historical Society$11,1002n/a
Kingdom Encounters International Co$10,00011%
Man in the Mirror Inc$10,00020%
Museum of the Bible$7,50020%
University of Central Florida Foundation Inc$7,00030%
Give Kids the World Inc$5,00010%
Mesa Global$5,0001n/a
Samaritan Village Inc$2,50010%
Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation$2,50010%
Gfwc Pine Castle Womans Club Corp$2,50014%
Liberty Counsel Inc$2,5001n/a
The Benji Watson Cancer Foundation Inc$2,500112%
Came to Believe Recovery Inc$1,00010%
Florida House Washington DC Inc$43020%
Highlands Biological Foundation Inc$20010%
Lockhart Baptist Church$1001n/a
Rollins College$10010%
Best Friends Animal Society$5010%
Sky Valley-Scaly Mountain VFRD$3010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($113k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bob and Ruthie Harrell Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOrlando Health Foundation Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWalking the Text: $60,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $40,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBetter Man Ministries Inc: $22,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetGrace Medical Home Inc: $22,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNathaniel's Hope Inc: $17,600 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetChoices Women's Clinic Inc: $15,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOrlando Union Rescue Mission Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida Family Voice Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFoundation for Life Ministries Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetHarbor House of Central Florida Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKingdom Encounters International Co: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMan in the Mirror Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of the Bible: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Central Florida Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGive Kids the World Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan Village Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGfwc Pine Castle Womans Club Corp: $2,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetThe Benji Watson Cancer Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetCame to Believe Recovery Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFlorida House Washington DC Inc: $430 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHighlands Biological Foundation Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRollins College: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBest Friends Animal Society: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSky Valley-Scaly Mountain VFRD: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Good Life Broadcasting IncFL22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Good Life Broadcasting Inc · For Giving Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Lee Foundation · Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im · National Charitable Fund Inc · Julie and Kirk Cousins Foundation · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · Central Florida Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare Bob and Ruthie Harrell Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Bob and Ruthie Harrell Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bob and Ruthie Harrell Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Bob and Ruthie Harrell Foundation

How much does Bob and Ruthie Harrell Foundation give?
Bob and Ruthie Harrell Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $210,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 28 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Bob and Ruthie Harrell Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (29%), Health (26%), Human Services (14%).
Who are Bob and Ruthie Harrell Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Orlando Health Foundation Inc ($70k), Walking the Text ($60k), Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($41k).
Does Bob and Ruthie Harrell Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bob and Ruthie Harrell 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 Bob and Ruthie Harrell Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Good Life Broadcasting Inc, For Giving Foundation Inc, Servant Foundation.
Where is Bob and Ruthie Harrell Foundation based?
Bob and Ruthie Harrell Foundation is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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