New Jersey · Private foundation
David and Eleanore Rukin Philanthropic 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.
- $334k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $78,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 59 to 65
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations David and Eleanore Rukin Philanthropic Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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 | 65 | $331k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $224k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 62 | $226k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $304k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 63 | $250k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 64 | $185k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jericho Project | $330,850 | 6 | 1% |
| Foundation for Jewish Camp Inc | $150,050 | 5 | 0% |
| Karsh Family Social Service Center Inc | $82,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Center for Food Action in New Jersey | $74,500 | 6 | 0% |
| West Side Center for Community Life | $71,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of Ethiopian Jews Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 4% |
| American Friends of Leket Israel Inc | $32,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Seeds of Peace Inc | $30,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Adler Aphasia Center | $28,500 | 6 | 1% |
| The Valley Hospital Foundation Inc | $23,662 | 6 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($357k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget David and Eleanore Rukin Philanthropic 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: The Brook Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Russell Berrie Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · The Dyson Foundation · The Coach Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare David and Eleanore Rukin Philanthropic Foundation with peer funders
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About David and Eleanore Rukin Philanthropic Foundation
- How much does David and Eleanore Rukin Philanthropic Foundation give?
- David and Eleanore Rukin Philanthropic Foundation reported 68 grants totaling $334,186 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 59 and 65 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does David and Eleanore Rukin Philanthropic Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Housing & Shelter (16%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are David and Eleanore Rukin Philanthropic Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Jericho Project ($331k), Foundation for Jewish Camp Inc ($150k), Karsh Family Social Service Center Inc ($83k).
- Does David and Eleanore Rukin Philanthropic Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does David and Eleanore Rukin Philanthropic 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 David and Eleanore Rukin Philanthropic Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Brook Fund Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, The Russell Berrie Foundation.
- Where is David and Eleanore Rukin Philanthropic Foundation based?
- David and Eleanore Rukin Philanthropic Foundation is based in NJ.
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