· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund | $20,000 |
| Ravinia | $7,500 |
| Briarwood Scholarship Foundation | $6,525 |
| University of Illinois-Chicago-Sama | $5,000 |
| Soka University of America-A Medina | $2,500 |
| Oberlin College-K Williams | $2,500 |
| Muhlenberg College-X Cruz | $2,500 |
| North Park College-Yesenia Patino | $2,500 |
| Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County | $1,800 |
| University of Illinois-Chicago-Y Gh | $1,250 |
| University of Illinois-Chicago-M Pa | $1,250 |
| Kravis Center for the Performing Art | $1,000 |
| Palm Beach Opera | $1,000 |
| CJE SeniorLife | $1,000 |
| Play for Pink | $650 |
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 (FY20–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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: 11 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO4× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue +33%
- KCKNOX COLLEGE4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +16%
- SUSOKA UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- JRJEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST CAMPING CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +9%
- TBTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISone grant, 2022 · $10k
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museumgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +57%
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 53 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 JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST CAMPING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KNOX COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SOKA UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BRIARWOOD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds Columbia College Chicago ↗
- Who funds PLAY FOR PINK 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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Howard and Raina Ruskin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard and Raina Ruskin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
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