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John Mark Rudkin Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$41k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
21%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$812k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations John Mark Rudkin Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$41k13%
FY202314$56k21%
FY202220$49k30%
FY202118$31k17%
FY202016$40k94%
FY20193$3k100%
FY20181$1k0%
FY20173$60kn/a
59% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$119kArts & Culture$45kInternational$30kFood & Nutrition$11kHuman Services$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kHealth$2kReligion$250Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($148k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John Mark Rudkin Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEssex County Greenbelt Association: $35,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetByrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation: $21,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMassachusetts Audubon Society Inc: $20,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCape Ann Museum Inc: $11,150 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBeverly Bootstraps Community Services I: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIpswich River Watershed Association: $3,207 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPeabody Essex Museum Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoast Guard Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About John Mark Rudkin Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does John Mark Rudkin Charitable Foundation Inc give?
John Mark Rudkin Charitable Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $41,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does John Mark Rudkin Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (42%), Arts & Culture (16%), International (11%).
Who are John Mark Rudkin Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Essex County Greenbelt Association ($36k), The Trustees of Reservations ($30k), Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation ($21k).
Does John Mark Rudkin Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John Mark Rudkin Charitable 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 John Mark Rudkin Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is John Mark Rudkin Charitable Foundation Inc based?
John Mark Rudkin Charitable Foundation Inc is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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