· Private foundation
Jd Ruffolo Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE | $10,000 |
| PFW FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ST CHARLES BORROMEO CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,000 |
| ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 32% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION8× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +39%- PCPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC6× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +18%
- PFPFW FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- ETEMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +99%
- IGIMPACT100 GREATER MILWAUKEE INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +2%
- SCST CHARLES CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
Pbs fort wayne engages our community through content and collaborations that educate, inform, inspire, and entertain.
Cinema center, fort wayne's center for film, provides unique opportunities to explore our world through the art of film.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Fort wayne civic theatre's mission is to entertain, enlighten, inspire, educate and enrich the community through quality live theatre.
The fort wayne museum of art will collect, preserve and present american and related art to engage and educate broad and diverse audiences throughout the region and add value to their lives.
The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.
The indy art center's mission is to provide accessible and inclusive art experiences that inspire creativity, educate, engage, and enrich our community.
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
To feed the spirit and spark the imagination through the highest caliber professional and academy performances, dance training, and community engagement.
Indyfringe advances the performing arts by creating access to a multitude of opportunities for artists, audiences, and our community to thrive.
Greater fort wayne (gfw) inc. is the chamber of commerce and economic development organization for fort wayne & allen county, indiana. at gfw inc., we focus on supporting local business, attracting new business, and improving our…
Mission: to champion and elevate the arts and cultural expression of greater columbus.vision: power of art realized. people engaged. city energized.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Embassy Theatre Foundationinc and the most unlike its peers is Pfw Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 14 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 EMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PFW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE YOUTHEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT100 GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ↗
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.
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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 Jd Ruffolo Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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