· Private foundation
Harry & Harriet Ruchman Foundation Inc
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST | $4,500 |
| SAMUEL'S HOUSE | $4,000 |
| MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FRINGE THEATER OF KEY WEST | $2,000 |
| THE JAZZ GALLERY | $2,000 |
| WATERFRONT PLAYHOUSE | $1,638 |
| THE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST | $1,500 |
| CAF AMERICA | $1,360 |
| CONGREGATION B'NAI ZION | $1,050 |
| TEMPLE EMANU-EL | $1,030 |
| PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE | $1,030 |
| CONSERVANCY GUARDIANS USA FUND INC | $1,000 |
| CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE | $1,000 |
| RIVER ARTS DISTRICT ARTIST FUND | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 10 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST8× · 2018–2025 · $57k · revenue +45%
- FTFRINGE THEATER OF KEY WEST INC5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +132%
- AOAH OF MONROE COUNTY4× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $6k
- DSDEA SURVIVORS BENEFIT FUNDone grant, 2022 · $5k
- KWKEY WEST FRINGE THEATREone grant, 2019 · $4k
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.
To provide financial and other essential support to further the mission and goals of the college of the florida keys (cfk).
The mission of the key west art and historical society is to preserve the culture of the florida keys through exhibiting and displaying regional art, architecture, and history for the purpoose of educating the community and visiting public.
Kwtcs is a theater, community stage and gathering place, that serves as a springboard to ignite creative excellence, quality entertainment, intellectual stimulation, challenge and opportunity.
To promote moving-picture media as an essential art form to educate and engage members and visitors through the presentation of film, video, and new media. To maintain and develop Tropic Cinema as the principal venue for the Key West Film…
The mission of the fkoc is to provide homeless individuals and families with the resources and opportunities by which to attain residential, financial and personal stability and self-sufficiency. fkoc provides services to prevent…
Dedicated to the conservation and preservation of the waters in and around south florida through wise fishery & watermanagement practices, while recognizing the importance of sport fishing to the local economy and the cultural heritage of…
The mission of the Tennessee Williams Key West Exhibit is to collect, preserve, and showcase historic archival materials directly related to the writings and artistic creations that won Tennessee Williams multiple awards, including two…
To enable individuals to remain in their homes by supporting compassionate, effective, life-enhancing health and supportive services. at this time, hfk care corporation is inactive.
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
To provide theater performances and educational programs for the residents of Key West, the Florida Keys, and for the many visitors to the Keys. Recognized as the Best Professional Theater in Florida for many years. We also ensure…
Provide performing arts to the florida keys.
To preserve Key Wests Little White House, Floridas only presidential museum, and programming that supports civic engagement, education, and the historic and cultural influences of the Truman era.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 66 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.
- Who funds THE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST ↗
- Who funds FRINGE THEATER OF KEY WEST INC ↗
- Who funds AH OF MONROE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JAZZ GALLERY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST COMMITTEE FOR SAFER CLEANER SHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST WOMANS CLUB ↗
- Who funds ELEPHANT HAVENS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Florida Keys · Edward B and Joan T Knight Foundati Foundation Inc · Hunterward Foundation · The Ferris Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · The Pantano Family Foundation Inc · The Dogwood Foundation · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harry & Harriet Ruchman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry & Harriet Ruchman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Star of the Sea Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
- Ah of Monroe County: 1% of income from government
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children: 0% of income from government
- Samuel's House Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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