Illinois · Private foundation
Burton W Ruder 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.
- $48k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 43
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $176k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Burton W Ruder Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | 49 | $34k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $34k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $32k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $31k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $22k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $18k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $22k | 58% |
| FY2017 | 36 | $19k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $49,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Jac Education Foundation | $8,750 | 7 | 2% |
| Keshet | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Zachary & Elizabeth M Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation | $5,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Semper Fi & America's Fund | $4,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Homes for Our Troops Inc | $4,350 | 5 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $4,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $3,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $3,600 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 84 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($58k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Burton W Ruder Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Eleven Eleven Foundation · Arkes Family Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About Burton W Ruder Family Foundation
- How much does Burton W Ruder Family Foundation give?
- Burton W Ruder Family Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $47,885 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Burton W Ruder Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Arts & Culture (22%), Health (15%).
- Who are Burton W Ruder Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($49k), Jac Education Foundation ($9k), Keshet ($7k).
- Does Burton W Ruder Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Burton W Ruder 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 Burton W Ruder Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, The Chicago Community Trust, Eleven Eleven Foundation.
- Where is Burton W Ruder Family Foundation based?
- Burton W Ruder Family Foundation is based in IL.
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