How much does Michael B Rukin Charitable Foundation give?

Michael B Rukin Charitable Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $612,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Michael B Rukin Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (34%), Religion (24%), Health (17%).

Who are Michael B Rukin Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Interfaithfamilycom Inc ($1.0M), Hias Inc ($1.0M), Children's Hospital Corporation ($770k).

Does Michael B Rukin Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Michael B Rukin Charitable 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 Michael B Rukin Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Boulder County, Colorado Gives Foundation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.

Where is Michael B Rukin Charitable Foundation based?

Michael B Rukin Charitable Foundation is based in PA.

Michael B Rukin Charitable Foundation

Michael B Rukin Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Michael B Rukin Charitable 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.

$612k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$165k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$1.7MReligion$1.2MHealth$833kPhilanthropy$553kArts & Culture$135kEducation$127kYouth Development$68kHousing & Shelter$43kOther$0

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k18 grants · $42k
$10k–50k5 grants · $120k
$50k–250k4 grants · $450k

$3,500

Median grant

States reached

$7.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
18 DOORS	$165,000
HIAS	$145,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION	$75,000
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES	$65,000
BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL	$30,000
BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL	$30,000
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES	$25,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL	$20,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION	$15,000
WELCOME NST	$7,500
PAIR	$7,500
JEWISH ARTS COLLABORATIVE	$6,000
WEBSTER COMFORT CARE HOME	$4,000
AGAHOZO SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE	$3,500
DARTMOUTH HICKOCK FOUNDATION	$3,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Michael B Rukin Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Michael B Rukin Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 6.2% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.2M · 51 repeat orgs$178k to everyone else

51 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.2M

$174k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+48%

Still filing today

76%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationInternationalReligionFood & NutritionOther

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

II
INTERFAITHFAMILYCOM INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +5%
HI
HIAS INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +94%
CH
Children's Hospital Corporation
9× · 2017–2025 · $770k · revenue +91%

Funded once

AJ
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT
one grant, 2017 · $48k
TB
THE BRIDGE TO HOPE INC
one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +5%
SH
STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOL
one grant, 2017 · $25k

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.

The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture

Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies Inc

The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…

Human Services

Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy

Partners in Torah

Offering jewish adults a personal connection to judaism,fostering a sense of belonging to the greater jewishcommunity, and building bridges between jews of allbackgrounds. to date, over 74,000 men and women from 39countries have been…

Religion

National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International

Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…

Civil Rights

Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services

The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network; the most unlike its peers is Realness Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 83 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

58/59

Grantees still filing

43/59

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$1,638,000Religion$1,116,930Health$782,350Philanthropy$620,000Other$680,857Education$120,500Human Services$74,500

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

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.

Community Foundation Boulder CountyCO23.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Boulder County · Colorado Gives Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Denver Foundation · Fjc · Maihaugen Foundation Inc Agency Xxxxxx2262 · Kissinger Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Rose Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Impactassetsinc

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 B Rukin Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael B Rukin Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home