Illinois · Private foundation
James a Ruppe 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.
- $626k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 63
- Grants FY2024
- 62
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $180,184
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 62
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations James a Ruppe Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k 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 | 61 | $438k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 62 | $495k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $403k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $279k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $264k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $224k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $187k | 24% |
| FY2017 | 38 | $167k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Cliff Health Camp | $313,379 | 8 | 2% |
| Michigan Tech Fund | $114,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Omega House Inc | $99,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly Upper Michigan Chapter | $64,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Copper Shores Community Health Foundation | $50,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Finlandia University | $48,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Covenant House Florida Inc | $41,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Clk Council of Churches | $41,000 | 7 | n/a |
| United Way of Broward County Inc | $39,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Gogebic Community College Foundation | $39,000 | 4 | 3% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget James a Ruppe 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.
Open a dossier: Copper Shores Community Health Foundation · Keweenaw Community Foundation · The Klungness Family Foundation Inc · The Fb Heron Foundation · Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · The Martin Family Foundation · United Way of Marquette County · West End Health Foundation · Superior Health Foundation · Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan
How this is measured
About James a Ruppe Foundation
- How much does James a Ruppe Foundation give?
- James a Ruppe Foundation reported 63 grants totaling $625,563 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 62 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does James a Ruppe Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (51%), Education (14%), Religion (13%).
- Who are James a Ruppe Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Bay Cliff Health Camp ($313k), Michigan Tech Fund ($114k), Omega House Inc ($99k).
- Does James a Ruppe Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James a Ruppe 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 James a Ruppe Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Copper Shores Community Health Foundation, Keweenaw Community Foundation, The Klungness Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is James a Ruppe Foundation based?
- James a Ruppe Foundation is based in IL.
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