· Private foundation
Bonnie Ruff Scholarship Fund Xxx-Xx-Xxxx
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA | $10,250 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $4,250 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $4,250 |
| MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $1,750 |
| EVANSVILLE LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $1,119 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of its 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 +44% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CUCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC5× · 2019–2023 · $19k · revenue +9%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY4× · 2019–2022 · $5k · revenue +44%- RIRose-Hulman Institute of Technology3× · 2018–2020 · $4k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- CUCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY NEBRASKAone grant, 2018 · $4k
- BUButler Universitygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +32%
- USUNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $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.
The mission of the University of Indianapolis is to prepare its graduates for effective membership in the societies in which they live and serve, and for excellence and leadership in their lives.
The indiana university research and technology corporation (iurtc) serves indiana university, the state of indiana, and the nation through creation and application of the university developed technologies and services, and the expanded…
To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.
Upper iowa university provides quality educational opportunities accessible through varied delivery methods to inspire success and empower lives.
DePauw is a nationally-recognized, leading liberal arts college committed to creating an atmosphere of intellectual challenge & engagement that prepares students for lifelong success.
Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.
See Disclosure Above.
Trine, an internationally recognized private, independent, co-educational institution offers degrees in various programs including engineering, math, science and business.
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
See schedule owashington and lee university provides a liberal arts education to approximately 1,800 undergraduate students & offers jd & llm studies to approximately 400 law students each year.
Kcu is a community of professionals committed to excellence in the education of highly qualified students in osteopathic medicine, dental medicine and health professions.
Owu is one of the nation's premier small liberal arts colleges, boasting strong relationships between students and faculty and opportunities that prepare students for service and leadership.
How this is measured
6 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. 6 of the 20 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bonnie Ruff Scholarship Fund Xxx-Xx-Xxxx funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bonnie Ruff Scholarship Fund Xxx-Xx-Xxxx. Bigger dots raise more.
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