New Jersey · Private foundation
Elizabeth Ruthruff Wilson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $173k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,475
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $42,035
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 19
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Elizabeth Ruthruff Wilson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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 | 19 | $173k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $176k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $168k | 88% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $145k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lenawee County Education Foundation | $113,975 | 3 | 11% |
| River Raisin Ragtime Revue | $34,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Croswell Opera House & Fine Arts Association | $33,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Madison School District | $27,360 | 1 | n/a |
| Tecumseh Pops Orchestra | $24,000 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Tecumseh | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Tecumseh Public Schools | $8,700 | 3 | n/a |
| Adrian College | $7,150 | 2 | 0% |
| Adrian Schools Education Foundation | $3,475 | 1 | 2% |
| Hudson Area Schools | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lenawee County Education Foundation | $113,975 | 3 | 11% |
| River Raisin Ragtime Revue | $34,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Croswell Opera House & Fine Arts Association | $33,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Madison School District | $27,360 | 1 | n/a |
| Tecumseh Pops Orchestra | $24,000 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Tecumseh | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Tecumseh Public Schools | $8,700 | 3 | n/a |
| Adrian College | $7,150 | 2 | 0% |
| Adrian Schools Education Foundation | $3,475 | 1 | 2% |
| Hudson Area Schools | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Tecumseh Youth Theatre | $2,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lenawee Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($394k), 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.
Open a dossier: Maurice&Dorothy Stubnitz Foundation · Farver Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Tlc Community Credit Union · Sage Foundation · Lenawee Community Foundation · Bell Trust · The S L Hickman Family Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Elizabeth Ruthruff Wilson Foundation
- How much does Elizabeth Ruthruff Wilson Foundation give?
- Elizabeth Ruthruff Wilson Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $173,081 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Elizabeth Ruthruff Wilson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Arts & Culture (18%), Public Benefit (1%).
- Who are Elizabeth Ruthruff Wilson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Lenawee County Education Foundation ($114k), River Raisin Ragtime Revue ($34k), Croswell Opera House & Fine Arts Association ($33k).
- Does Elizabeth Ruthruff Wilson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Elizabeth Ruthruff Wilson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Elizabeth Ruthruff Wilson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maurice&Dorothy Stubnitz Foundation, Farver Foundation, Premier Bank Foundation.
- Where is Elizabeth Ruthruff Wilson Foundation based?
- Elizabeth Ruthruff Wilson Foundation is based in NJ.
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