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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k59 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $109k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $134k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JFCS OF NORTHERN NJ (JEWISH FAMILY & CH) | $78,400 |
| JERICHO PROJECT | $55,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP | $33,400 |
| KARSH CENTER | $18,000 |
| WEST SIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER | $18,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL | $10,000 |
| THE PFEIFFER CENTER | $10,000 |
| HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| KIPP NEW YORK | $10,000 |
| SEEDS OF PEACE INC | $8,000 |
| RSFF | $5,000 |
| RAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION | $5,000 |
| FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJ | $3,600 |
| ADAMAH NY | $3,600 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- JPJERICHO PROJECT6× · 2020–2025 · $331k · revenue +161%
FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC5× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +0%- CFCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +160%
Funded once
- IUISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIANone grant, 2021 · $10k
- FOFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVAone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -62%
- RJROCKLAND JEWISH FAMILY SERVICEone grant, 2020 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To promote dietary changes to build a healthy, equitable, humane, and environmentally-sustainable food system.
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life and the most unlike its peers is The Brook Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
105 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 105 of the 150 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds JERICHO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds KARSH FAMILY SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
- Who funds Friends of Ethiopian Jews Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds ADLER APHASIA CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds RAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE GENEVA SCHOOL OF MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Horace Mann School ↗
- Who funds THE STONY BROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KIPP NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Americas Grow-A-Row ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds ADAMAH INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization David and Eleanore Rukin Philanthropic Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- Adler Aphasia Center — 12% of income from government
- Adamah Inc — 10% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Ramapo College Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Center for Food Action in New Jersey — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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