· Private foundation
Patricia J Ruegsegger Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Dane County | $5,052 |
| Childrens Hospital Colorado Foundation | $3,091 |
| K9s for Warriors | $2,000 |
| St Mary's Food Bank | $1,200 |
| Pets for Patriots | $1,050 |
| Give Kids the World | $1,045 |
| The Salvation Army | $1,030 |
| The Road Home Dane County | $1,030 |
| Dogs to Dogtags | $1,000 |
| Green Beret Racing | $1,000 |
| Mission K9 Rescue | $1,000 |
| Jacob's Hope | $1,000 |
| Pets for Vets | $1,000 |
| The River Food Pantry | $520 |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | $516 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Dogs playing for life is redefining the meaning and importance of quality of life for all sheltered dogs by improving their experience through playgroups and individualized training, resulting in urgent and responsible livesaving.
Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.
Many seniors and veterans share their only meal of the day with their companion animals. we deliver pet food for these precious animals so they can remain at home or with their person and not have to be surrendered to shelters.
Research and advocacy for veterans with post-traumatic stress and the prevention of veteran suicide.
CFS seeks to inspire veterans through life-changing canine partnerships.
Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…
Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.
Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…
To transform lives and strengthen communities through partnerships with custom trained working dogs.
Happy Paws Haven Co. is a foster based animal rescue agency that helps animals in need.
The mission of the corporation is to provide support for the war dogs of the united states military. the organization provides care packages to war dogs and their handlers serving overseas. the organization also provides support for…
To serve the special operations community, families, and k-9 military dogs, as well as law enforcement and contract working dogs. when possible, these canines are placed in forever homes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Jacobs Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PETS FOR PATRIOTS INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Mission K9 Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds JACOBS HOPE ↗
- Who funds Pets for Vets Inc ↗
- Who funds Dogs to Dog Tags Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANOPY CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Patricia J Ruegsegger Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.