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Michael and Chandra Rudd Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Michael and Chandra Rudd Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$398k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$917kPhilanthropy$895kHealth$155kHousing & Shelter$98kEducation$53kCivil Rights$48kCrime & Legal$43kEmployment$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI$110,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$25,000
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA FOUNDATION$25,000
LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA$25,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA INC$25,000
GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION$25,000
LOTUS HOUSE SHELTER$25,000
NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC$20,000
THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$10,000
CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JEWISH EDUCATION$10,000
THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED$10,000
FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION$10,000
THE MARSHALL PROJECT$10,000
FACING HISTORY FACING OURSELVES$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FACING HISTORY FACING OURSELVES: $10k → 16%FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 10%CASE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $10k → 10%NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $20k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 10%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $190k → 15%CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA: $25k → 17%LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA: $25k → 15%FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 10%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $160k → 15%CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA: $25k → 17%LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA: $15k → 15%FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 10%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $150k → 15%CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA: $10k → 17%ACLU FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI: $110k → 15%LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA: $10k → 15%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $100k → 15%LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA: $10k → 15%THE MARSHALL PROJECT: $10k → 17%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $100k → 15%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $100k → 15%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA FOUNDATION: $32k → 10%INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI: $86k → 15%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA: $25k → 10%INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI: $63k → 15%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA: $25k → 10%INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI: $50k → 15%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $50k → 15%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA: $25k → 10%INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI: $50k → 15%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI: $50k → 15%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA FOUNDATION: $17k → 10%INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI: $50k → 15%PACIFIC VISION FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $25k → 15%PACIFIC VISION FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI: $25k → 15%LOTUS HOUSE SHELTER: $50k → 15%LOTUS HOUSE SHELTER: $25k → 15%LOTUS HOUSE SHELTER: $23k → 15%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA INC: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NV
OH
NJ
CA
MO
KY
WV
DC
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 21 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
12

Total granted

$1.2M
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+124%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationReligionCivil RightsEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TL
    THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +118%
  • TM
    The Musical Arts Association
    3× · 2020–2023 · $60k · revenue +45%
  • CO
    CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $47k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BOTANICAL GARDEN
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
  • MB
    MISSION BEHIND BARS-MB3
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +74%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
5
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
6
Museum of Latin American Art

The specific purpose of this corporation is to: expand knowledge and appreciation of modern and contemporary latin american tine art that has been created since world war ii; to operate a museum; to collect and display latin american…

Arts & Culture
7
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
8
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
9
Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville Inc

The museum of contemporary art jacksonville (moca), a cultural institute of the university of north florida, promotes the discovery, knowledge, and advancement of the art, artists, and ideas of our time. moca serves the community and…

Arts & Culture
10
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
11
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
12
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Contemporary Art Inc; the most unlike its peers is Manna Meal Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
24/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $875,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC+1 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC: $483,000 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INCTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INCSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATIONThe Musical Arts Association: $60,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts AssociationCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $47,000 · Arts & CultureCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS+8 more: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+8 moreSAN FRANCISCO OPERA FOUNDATION: $98,540 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO OPERA…LOTUS HOUSE SHELTER: $98,130 · OtherLOTUS HOUSE SHELTERUCSF FRIENDS OF MEDICINE: $40,000 · OtherUCSF FRIENDS OF MED…ACLU FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherFACING HISTORY FACING OURSELVES: $16,000 · OtherCASE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherDELANCEY STREET CALIFORNIA: $20,000 · OtherTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $18,500 · Other+13 more: $60,000 · Other+13 morePACIFIC VISION FOUNDATION: $80,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $2,500 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JEWISH EDUCATION: $20,000 · ReligionKENTUCKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · ReligionLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY: $1,000 · Religion
Philanthropy$895,000Arts & Culture$795,000Other$386,170Health$80,000Education$68,500Civil Rights$27,000Religion$26,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $875,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC: $483,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetPACIFIC VISION FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC: $80,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $47,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JEWISH EDUCATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDELANCEY STREET CALIFORNIA: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $18,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOOSTER GROUP INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPERA AMERICA INC: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKENTUCKY RIVER CHILD ADVOCACY CENTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFLORIDA AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMANNA MEAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SENTENCING PROJECT: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMerola Opera Program: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIAMI CENTER FOR RACIAL JUSTICE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPEED ART MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-COUNTERFEITING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

National Philanthropi…The Lewis and Gladys …The Gheens Foundation…The Andrew W Mellon F…Vanguard Charitable E…The Miami Foundation …Mightycause Charitabl…T Rowe Price Program …American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Ayco Charitable F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
National Philanthropic TrustPA13.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Miami Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Michael and Chandra Rudd Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael and Chandra Rudd Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • New World Symphony Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Michael and Chandra Rudd Foundation Inc 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.

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 47 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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