Delaware · Private foundation
Lynne Ruffin-Smith Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $890k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $360,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Lynne Ruffin-Smith Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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 | 16 | $890k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $773k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $524k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $650k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $680k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $500k | 58% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $263k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $713k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lou Ruvo Brain Institute | $1,611,565 | 6 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada | $430,391 | 7 | 0% |
| Wichita Art Museum Inc | $429,652 | 8 | 1% |
| St Rose Dominican Health Foundation | $217,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Double Tap Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | 95% |
| The Shade Tree Inc | $197,696 | 6 | 2% |
| Make-A-Wish Nevada | $197,696 | 6 | 1% |
| Nathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc | $133,762 | 7 | 1% |
| Keep Memory Alive | $70,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Disabled American Veterans | $63,946 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 22 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($970k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lynne Ruffin-Smith Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Mgm Resorts Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · The Tito and Sandra Tiberti Foundation · Alan and Christy Molasky Charitable Foundation · The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation · Canarelli Family Foundation · Vincent C and Pamela A Immordino Charitable Foundation · Mondays Dark · Engelstad Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lynne Ruffin-Smith Charitable Foundation
- How much does Lynne Ruffin-Smith Charitable Foundation give?
- Lynne Ruffin-Smith Charitable Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $890,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lynne Ruffin-Smith Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (54%), Human Services (16%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Lynne Ruffin-Smith Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Lou Ruvo Brain Institute ($1.6M), Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada ($430k), Wichita Art Museum Inc ($430k).
- Does Lynne Ruffin-Smith Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lynne Ruffin-Smith Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lynne Ruffin-Smith Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc, Wynn Resorts Foundation, Mgm Resorts Foundation.
- Where is Lynne Ruffin-Smith Charitable Foundation based?
- Lynne Ruffin-Smith Charitable Foundation is based in DE.
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