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Julie & Bill Ruehle Foundation

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.

$32k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
83%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,750
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$186k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Julie & Bill Ruehle Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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
FY2025still arriving5$31k80%
FY20246$15k83%
FY20236$24k83%
FY20223$23k67%
FY20217$74k57%
FY20206$20k83%
FY20198$25k63%
FY20188$62k75%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$163kHealth$36kEducation$35kCivil Rights$32kPhilanthropy$25kArts & Culture$8kScience & Tech$6kHuman Services$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MD
TX
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
San Diego Humane Society and Spca$81,39540%
Pars Equality Center$15,0001n/a
Allegheny College$15,00060%
Cathedral School of St Mary$10,0001n/a
Rancho Coastal Humane Society$7,50010%
Mercy for Animals Inc$5,00010%
Americas Future Inc$3,7501n/a
Wings of Rescue Inc$2,50010%
Notley Impact$2,07310%
Iranian American Women Foundation$1,50010%
Show all 28 grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($154k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Julie & Bill Ruehle Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSan Diego Humane Society and Spca: $81,395 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAllegheny College: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRancho Coastal Humane Society: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMercy for Animals Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWings of Rescue Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNotley Impact: $2,073 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIranian American Women Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPersian Cultural Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCurebound: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLicense to Freedom: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWomens Resource Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShelter to Soldier Inc: $930 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFarhang Foundation: $850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIranian-American Scholarship Fund Inc: $800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHrj Charities Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrphaned Starfish Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas 4000 for Cancer: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego-Imperial Council Boy Scouts of America: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelen Woodward Animal Center: $100 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 21.

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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.

Price Philanthropies FoundationCA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Price Philanthropies Foundation · California Community Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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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How do I get to Julie & Bill Ruehle Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Julie & Bill Ruehle Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Julie & Bill Ruehle Foundation

How much does Julie & Bill Ruehle Foundation give?
Julie & Bill Ruehle Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $32,460 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Julie & Bill Ruehle Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (52%), Health (11%), Education (11%).
Who are Julie & Bill Ruehle Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: San Diego Humane Society and Spca ($81k), Pars Equality Center ($15k), Allegheny College ($15k).
Does Julie & Bill Ruehle Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Julie & Bill Ruehle 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 Julie & Bill Ruehle Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Price Philanthropies Foundation, California Community Foundation, The San Diego Foundation.
Where is Julie & Bill Ruehle Foundation based?
Julie & Bill Ruehle Foundation is based in CA.

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 57 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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