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.

Burton W Ruder Family Foundation

Burton W Ruder Family Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$53kArts & Culture$40kHealth$27kInternational$23kPublic Benefit$8kHuman Services$8kFood & Nutrition$6kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0

02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k51 grants · $38k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$176k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND	$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD CHARITIES	$2,500
HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$2,000
FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMERS	$2,000
KESHET	$2,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$1,500
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE	$1,500
PER SCHOLAS	$1,500
SEMPER FI FUND	$1,000
WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS	$1,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN	$1,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION	$1,000
ALIGHT	$1,000
JAC EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$1,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$182k · 69 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

69 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$182k

$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+20%

Still filing today

59%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureEducationOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

JU
JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
7× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +13%
JE
Jac Education Foundation
7× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +148%
K
KESHET
5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +40%

Funded once

JI
JUF ISRAEL EMERGENCY FUND
one grant, 2024 · $3k
NM
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $3k
TA
THE AMYLOIDOSIS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -1%

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.

04Its field

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.

International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement

International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International

Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International

Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc

For over 20 years, chai's mission has been to save lives and improve health outcomes in low-and middle-income countries around the world. we do this by enabling the government and private sector to strengthen and sustain quality health…

International

Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International

Oxfam-America Inc

Oxfam america (oxfam or oa) is a global organization that fights inequality to end poverty and injustice. we offer lifesaving support in times of crisis and advocate for economic justice, gender equality, and climate action.

International

Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International

Center for Strategic and International Studies

The center for strategic and international studies (csis) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world's greatest challenges.

International

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medical Teams International; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

84 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. 84 of the 136 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

84/84

Grantees still filing

58/84

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$91,735Philanthropy$55,000International$40,494Health$21,100Education$11,140Food & Nutrition$7,700Arts & Culture$6,035

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.

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.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Burton W Ruder Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burton W Ruder Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home