· Private foundation
Fred C Rutz 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEAUTIFUL SAVIOR EV LUTHERAN CHURCH | $12,000 |
| NMDP FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $9,500 |
| MARTIN LUTHER COLLEGE | $9,000 |
| ST LUKES LUTHERAN CHURCH | $5,500 |
| TRUTH IN LOVE MINISTRIES | $4,000 |
| WISCONSIN LUTHERAN SEMINARY | $3,000 |
| WISCONSIN LUTHERAN SEMINARY | $2,500 |
| WISCONSIN LUTHERAN CHAPEL | $2,000 |
| TIME OF GRACE | $2,000 |
| NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS' HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| LUTHERAN MINISTRIES MEDIA INC | $2,000 |
| OHIO LIVING FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ERNESTINES DAUGHTER NFP | $500 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TOTIME OF GRACE MINISTRY8× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +35%
- OLOHIO LIVING FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $13k · revenue +8%
WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- CTCONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY - WALTER A MAIER SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2019 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
See schedule oto provide older adults with caring and quality services toward enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well-being consistent with the christian gospel. the organization is dedicated to living our mission and keeping…
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. our lady of mercy life center is a member of st. peter's health…
Provide facilities and care for the developmentally disabled
A b l e , inc (a brighter living experience, inc) is organized to provide residential care for developmentally disabled minnesota residents at its residential and intermediate care facilities located in houston county, minnesota. the…
The mission of christian life resources is to use life and family issues as bridges to convey the love of god and to share the message of salvation through christ. this organization educates people on what god's word has to say about the…
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
To protect the unborn, share the gospel, and transform our communities one life at a time.
Guided by christian compassion, wellspire supports the independence, health, and well-being of older adults wherever they call home.
See schedule oohio living communities was founded in 1922 and was incorporated as an ohio non-profit corporation in 1959. the corporation's mission statement is as follows:our mission is to provide older adults with caring and quality…
We help people live their lives to the fullest thru the provision of a comprehensive continuum of programs and services. regardless of whether a resident is in independent living, assisted living, memory care, or skilled nursing care, our…
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
Women doing well exists to activate women towards greater purposeful generosity. this is accomplished by taking women through the women doing well pathway where they will learn their purpose, identify their passions, and create a plan to…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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: Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Neumann Family Foundation Inc · Ihs Foundation · Holzhueter Foundation · Robert a and Lynn I Doneff Foundation · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fred C Rutz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fred C Rutz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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