· 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of HARRY & HARRIET RUCHMAN FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST | $4,500 |
| SAMUEL'S HOUSE | $4,000 |
| MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE JAZZ GALLERY | $2,000 |
| FRINGE THEATER OF KEY WEST | $2,000 |
| WATERFRONT PLAYHOUSE | $1,638 |
| THE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST | $1,500 |
| CAF AMERICA | $1,360 |
| CONGREGATION B'NAI ZION | $1,050 |
| PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE | $1,030 |
| TEMPLE EMANU-EL | $1,030 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CONSERVANCY GUARDIANS USA FUND INC | $1,000 |
| CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE | $1,000 |
| ELEPHANT HAVENS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Studios of Key West and the most unlike its peers is Roundabout Theatre Company Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- 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 THE JAZZ GALLERY ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST COMMITTEE FOR SAFER CLEANER SHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Conservancy Guardians USA Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST WOMANS CLUB ↗
- Who funds WALK THE WALK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELEPHANT HAVENS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
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 organization Harry & Harriet Ruchman Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.
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