How much does Dave G Ruf Jr Family Foundation give?

Dave G Ruf Jr Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $177,996 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Dave G Ruf Jr Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (56%), Environment (12%), Health (11%).

Who are Dave G Ruf Jr Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ducks Unlimited Inc ($138k), Colonial Presbyterian Church ($45k), Life Unlimited Inc ($30k).

Does Dave G Ruf Jr Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Dave G Ruf Jr 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 Dave G Ruf Jr Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Servant Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.

Where is Dave G Ruf Jr Family Foundation based?

Dave G Ruf Jr Family Foundation is based in KS.

Dave G Ruf Jr Family Foundation

Dave G Ruf Jr Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Dave G Ruf Jr 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.

$178k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$55k

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 2025.

Education$643kEnvironment$141kHealth$129kInternational$125kReligion$74kArts & Culture$12kAnimals$11kCommunity Improvement$11kOther$0

02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $16k
$10k–50k5 grants · $107k
$50k–250k1 grant · $55k

$12,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DUCKS UNLIMITED INC	$55,000
KANSAS UNIVERSITY PHYSICIANS INC	$25,000
WILLIAM EDUCATIONAL FUND	$25,000
COLONIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEMORIAL	$20,000
FOUNDATION FOR ENGINEERING AT KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY INC	$12,000
HIGGINS BROTHERS SURGICENTER CO GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$5,000
CURE OF ARS CATHOLIC CHURCH	$5,000
PHEASANTS FOREVER	$3,000
STARLIGHT THEATRE KANSAS CITY	$1,996
KU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION	$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, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Dave G Ruf Jr Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Dave G Ruf Jr Family Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 8.8% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$731k · 26 repeat orgs$414k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$731k

$357k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

+33%

Still filing today

50%

61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentEducationCrime & LegalOther

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

DU
Ducks Unlimited Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +99%
LU
LIFE UNLIMITED INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +112%
IT
IN TIME OF NEED FOUNDATION INC
2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +60%

Funded once

KE
KU ENDOWMENT WILLIAMS EDUCATION FUND
one grant, 2017 · $228k
TH
THE HIGGINS FAMILY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2018 · $100k
AH
American Heart Association Incgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +43%

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.

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Wetlands America Trust Inc

Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…

Environment

Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit

American College of Radiology

The american college of radiology (acr) is organized to advance radiology science, practice and access, improve quality and safety, provide continuing education for radiology and allied professionals, and achieve better outcomes through…

Health

American College of Surgeons

The american college of surgeons is dedicated to improving the care of the surgical patient and to safeguarding standards of care in an optimal and ethical practice environment.

Education

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

Ducks Unlimited Inc Group Return

Ducks unlimited, inc. conserves, restores, and manages wetlands and associated habitats for north america's waterfowl. these habitats also benefit additional wildlife and people.

Environment

Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is In Time of Need Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 54 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)

31/32

Grantees still filing

20/32

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$866,129Environment$137,862Human Services$55,175Health$37,950Education$32,625Community Improvement$10,500Animals$4,622

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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO17.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Dave G Ruf Jr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dave G Ruf Jr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

6report 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