Illinois · Private foundation
Jerrold Ruskin Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $200k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $43,170
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 59
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $534k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Jerrold Ruskin Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 53 | $200k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 59 | $163k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $169k | 49% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $199k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $106k | 59% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $361k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Am Shalom | $157,141 | 6 | n/a |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $100,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Hope Chicago Inc | $95,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Art Center of Highland Park | $26,052 | 6 | 1% |
| Bayit Brigade | $25,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Northwestern University | $21,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $20,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Parks Foundation of Highland Park | $18,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Clearbrook | $16,100 | 2 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $14,600 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 86 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 64 recipients with no EIN on record ($623k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jerrold Ruskin Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · First Bank Chicago Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Rosslevee Charitable Foundation · Highland Park Community Foundation · Kovler Family Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · YEA Highland Park Inc
How this is measured
About Jerrold Ruskin Foundation Inc
- How much does Jerrold Ruskin Foundation Inc give?
- Jerrold Ruskin Foundation Inc reported 53 grants totaling $199,705 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 59 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Jerrold Ruskin Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Religion (18%), Education (9%).
- Who are Jerrold Ruskin Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Am Shalom ($157k), Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($101k), Hope Chicago Inc ($95k).
- Does Jerrold Ruskin Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jerrold Ruskin Foundation Inc 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 Jerrold Ruskin Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Circle of Service Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Jerrold Ruskin Foundation Inc based?
- Jerrold Ruskin Foundation Inc is based in IL.
Play a game based on Jerrold Ruskin’s filings →