· Private foundation
Nancy Webb Ruskin 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $15,500 |
| KQED | $12,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM | $8,000 |
| ALAMEDA COUNTY FOOD BANK | $6,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS HOSP | $6,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| DOCTOR'S WITHOUT BORDERS | $3,000 |
| ABODE SERVICES | $2,500 |
| CA STATE PARKS FOUDATION | $2,000 |
| CENTRAL CA FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS ALAMEDA COUNTY | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +105%
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +87%- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- TATHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +19%
- HWHumane World for Animals Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +46%
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.
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.
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Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
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How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds ACCESS MAMMOTH ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HUMANITIES WEST ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY SPCA ↗
- Who funds ABODE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds CHABOT SPACE & SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds OLIVE HYDE ART GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
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: The Intuit Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nancy Webb Ruskin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nancy Webb Ruskin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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