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Hein & Beverly Rusen Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Hein & Beverly Rusen Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$255k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$127k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.0MEducation$637kPhilanthropy$128kArts & Culture$128kInternational$60kEnvironment$4kAnimals$1kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $4k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $252k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND$126,606
RINGLING COLLEGE OF ARTS$125,000
128840$2,500
TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL$500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 9% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $127k → 10%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $1k → 17%RINGLING COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS: $133k → 9%VISIBLE MEN ACADEMY: $1k → 10%PROJECT MERCY: $50k → 12%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $1k → 17%RINGLING COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS: $125k → 9%PROJECT MERCY: $2k → 12%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $1k → 17%RINGLING COLLEGE OF ARTS: $125k → 9%PROJECT MERCY: $1k → 12%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $1k → 17%RINGLING COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS: $106k → 9%PROJECT MERCY: $1k → 12%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $1k → 17%RINGLING COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS: $57k → 9%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $500 → 17%RINGLING COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS: $50k → 9%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $500 → 17%RINGLING COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS: $41k → 9%LARRY AND PAT THOMPSON ENDOWMENT SHCOLARSHIP FUND: $250 → 9%TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL: $500 → 9%SEASON OF SHARING: $2k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS SARASOTA: $1k → 9%HARVEST HOUSE OF SARASOTA: $1k → 9%SEASON OF SHARING: $1k → 9%HARVEST HOUSE OF SARASOTA: $1k → 9%SEASON OF SHARING: $1k → 9%SEASON OF SHARING: $1k → 9%HARVEST HOUSE OF SARASOTA: $1k → 9%SEASON OF SHARING: $1k → 9%HARVEST HOUSE OF SARASOTA: $1k → 9%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $1k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 → 9%CONSERVATION FOUNDATION OF THE GULF COAST: $1k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY: $250 → 9%CONSERVATION FOUNDATION OF THE GULF COAST: $1k → 9%CONSERVATION FOUNDATION OF THE GULF COAST: $1k → 9%CONSERVATION FOUNDATION OF THE GULF COAST: $500 → 9%FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF SARASOTA: $503k → 9%FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF SARASOTA: $501k → 9%SARASOTA MUSEUM OF ART: $128k → 9%128840: $3k → 9%FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF SARASOTA: $3k → 9%SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 9%FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF SARASOTA: $1k → 9%FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF SARASOTA: $1k → 9%SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 9 repeat orgs$258k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$1.6M
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+20%

Still filing today

33%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PROJECT MERCY INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $54k · revenue +12%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +98%
  • BW
    Big Waters Land Trust Inc
    4× · 2018–2022 · $4k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • SM
    SARASOTA MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2023 · $128k
  • Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +20%
  • VM
    VISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +20%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc

Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.

Health
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc

Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…

Education
4
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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5
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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6
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
7
Marietta College

Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…

Education
8
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
9
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
10
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc; the most unlike its peers is Project Mercy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF SARASOTA: $1,008,000 · OtherFRIENDSHIP CENTER OF SARASOTARINGLING COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS: $511,000 · OtherRINGLING COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPSSARASOTA MUSEUM OF ART: $127,750 · OtherSARASOTA MUSEUM OF ART+9 more: $17,100 · OtherDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $126,606 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $125,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationPROJECT MERCY INC: $54,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 · InternationalBig Waters Land Trust Inc: $3,500 · Environment
Other$1,663,850Philanthropy$127,606Education$126,000International$60,000Environment$3,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $126,606 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT MERCY INC: $54,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBig Waters Land Trust Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT MERCY INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Big Waters Land Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
  • Who funds Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc ↗
  • Who funds VISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hein & Beverly Rusen Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hein & Beverly Rusen Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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