Illinois · Private foundation
Howard and Raina Ruskin Family Foundation
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.
- $57k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 86%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,800
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 86% of the organizations Howard and Raina Ruskin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 16 | $56k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $80k | 86% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $95k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $76k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $69k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $125,380 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish Reconstructionist Camping Corporation | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Knox College | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Soka University of America | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Briarwood Scholarship Foundation | $12,700 | 2 | 2% |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Depaul University | $5,100 | 2 | 0% |
| North Park University | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Loyola University of Chicago | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($125k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Howard and Raina Ruskin Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
Compare Howard and Raina Ruskin Family Foundation with peer funders
About Howard and Raina Ruskin Family Foundation
- How much does Howard and Raina Ruskin Family Foundation give?
- Howard and Raina Ruskin Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $57,455 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Howard and Raina Ruskin Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (44%), Philanthropy (40%), Recreation & Sports (6%).
- Who are Howard and Raina Ruskin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($125k), Jewish Reconstructionist Camping Corporation ($25k), Knox College ($20k).
- Does Howard and Raina Ruskin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Howard and Raina Ruskin Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Howard and Raina Ruskin Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Howard and Raina Ruskin Family Foundation based?
- Howard and Raina Ruskin Family Foundation is based in IL.
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