How much did EDWARD AND HANNAH M RUTLEDGE CHARITIES grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of EDWARD AND HANNAH M RUTLEDGE CHARITIES’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

aid chippewareliefaid pledgealexanderaid campcamp requestjohnson

2021

secrawamandafreagonpaytonbarrericksoncollin

2022

ethanturnerkendrabarremilygustafsonschillinger

2023

iversonelizabethlindquistgustafsontoddcdc outreachhause

2024

iversonschneiderhausesauerweinlindsaytoddgustafson

2025

henrygabrielprinceyarringtonschmittjacksonlegion

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 132 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k108 grants · $227k
$10k–50k19 grants · $363k
$50k–250k5 grants · $418k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$29M

Total assets

Largest grants

HOPE VILLAGE$192,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY$75,000
FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER$50,000
FEED MY PEOPLE FOOD BANK$50,000
MOBILE MEALS OF CHIPPEWA FALLS$50,000
CHIPPEWA YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION$41,667
VALLEY VINEYARD FOOD PANTRY$30,000
CHIPPEWA FALLS AREA SENIOR CENTER$30,000
LE PHILIPS CDC OUTREACH$28,000
BLOOMERNEW AUBURN FOOD PANTRY$27,000
BRIGHT SMILES$25,000
AGNES' TABLE & COMMUNITY CENTER$21,000
COME NOW & EAT FOOD PANTRY$20,000
STANLEY AREA FOOD PANTRY$16,000
JIM FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$16,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.3M · 260 repeat orgs$629k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

260 repeat relationships — 90 still active in FY2025, 170 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

260

152

Total granted

$5.3M

$484k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+11%

Still filing today

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

OD
OPEN DOOR CLINIC
6× · 2020–2025 · $211k · revenue +206% · 40% of their budget
CF
CHIPPEWA FALLS AREA SENIOR CENTER
6× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +12%
FS
FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER
5× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +31%

Funded once

HV
HOPE VILLAGE-LANDMARK CHRISTIAN CHURCH
one grant, 2022 · $29k
TH
THE HUB HOMELESS SERVICES INC
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -62%
WR
WORKFORCE RESOURCE
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Chippewa Enterprises Inc

To advance the lives of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through creative community partnerships, vocational training, and employment opportunities.

Human Services

Chippewa Falls Area Chamber of Commerce

Improve the quality of life in our community.

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Chippewa County Family Project Inc

To facilitate, coordinate and promote safe, nurturing, home-like care for residents placed for foster care and for any other charitable and educational purposes related to promoting well-being of children in foster care.

Human Services

Family Promise of the Chippewa

Serve families who are homeless, or at risk of homelessness, by providing resources in the areas of emergency assistance, stabilization and prevention.

Human Services

Chippewa Valley Cultural

To renovate and preserve a historic building to provide a cultural center in order to stimulate community involvement and interest in all forms of the arts

Arts & Culture

Chippewa Valley Habitat for Humanity

Dedicated to eliminating substandard housing and homelessness in the chippewa valley.

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United Way of the Greater Chippewa

We improve lives and build stronger chippewa valley communities by bringing resources together to advance the common good.

Philanthropy

Chippewa County Humane Association

The chippewa county humane association seeks to relieve the suffering of homeless companion animals by setting an example of excellence in animal care and placement, humane education, and community leadership.

Animals

Chippewa Watershed Conservancy Inc

To protect and restore central michigan's land, water, and wildlife resources to improve the quality of life for all.

Environment

Chippewa Health Access Coalition

The organization was formed for the purpose of providing access to quality health care for uninsured residents of chippewa, luce and mackinac counties of michigan by coordinating health care providers.

Health

Chippewa County Land Conservancy Inc

To protect and preserve natural and scenic land in chippewa county and the surrounding area.

Environment

Chippewa Family Services Inc

Court appointed guardian

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chippewa River Industries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Curtie Cares Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 27% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/25

the rest of the field

73/911

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.

05the grantee network

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

15/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,498,868Arts & Culture$505,000Human Services$226,000Education$220,000Health$211,000Recreation & Sports$155,200Food & Nutrition$142,900

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.

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.

The Casper FoundationWI29× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Casper Foundation · Community Foundation of Chippewa Co · Eau Claire Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Chippewa · Annmarie Foundation Inc · Mayo Clinic Group Return · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Pablo Foundation Inc · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Rcu 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 organisation EDWARD AND HANNAH M RUTLEDGE CHARITIES 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CHIPPEWA AREA HISTORY CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 27.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 881216231 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CHIPPEWA AREA HISTORY CENTER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 57% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Edward and Hannah M Rutledge Charities through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

EDWARD AND HANNAH M RUTLEDGE CHARITIES

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Edward and Hannah M Rutledge Charities?

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EDWARD AND HANNAH M RUTLEDGE CHARITIES

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Edward and Hannah M Rutledge Charities?

More from the funding graph