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Dianne H Ruthman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$144k
Granted FY2020
8
Grants FY2020
7
Organizations funded FY2020
29%
First-time grantees FY2020
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62% of Dianne H Ruthman Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Orange County, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Dianne H Ruthman Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $144k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’19
6
’20
4
’21
6
’22
1
’23
3
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2020
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 7
FY2019 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
3
Total assets, FY2020
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 29% of the organizations Dianne H Ruthman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20207$134k29%
FY20195$81kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$423kPhilanthropy$102kHuman Services$30kYouth Development$10kReligion$2kCivil Rights$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alzheimer's Orange County$65,00050%
Curepsp Inc$40,00040%
Jewish Home for the Aging of Orange County$30,00040%
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Conejo Valley Inc$10,00040%
Bikur Cholim$3,00010%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$2,00040%
Chabad of North Hollywood$1,5001n/a
Anti-Defamation League$50010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($154k), not named here.

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.

Judith Knell Binder Family FoundationCA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Judith Knell Binder Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · National Philanthropic Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About Dianne H Ruthman Family Foundation

How much does Dianne H Ruthman Family Foundation give?
Dianne H Ruthman Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $143,500 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2020.
What does Dianne H Ruthman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (74%), Philanthropy (18%), Human Services (5%).
Who are Dianne H Ruthman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Alzheimer's Orange County ($65k), Curepsp Inc ($40k), Jewish Home for the Aging of Orange County ($30k).
Does Dianne H Ruthman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dianne H Ruthman 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 Dianne H Ruthman Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Judith Knell Binder Family Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Dianne H Ruthman Family Foundation based?
Dianne H Ruthman Family Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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