· Private foundation
Patti and Rusty Rueff 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILLS PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| ACT (AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER) | $50,000 |
| THE JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $15,000 |
| ST ANDREW'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | $12,500 |
| THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP | $10,000 |
| NAPA VALLEY STATE PARKS ASSOCIATION | $3,200 |
| JOHN PURDUE CLUB | $2,500 |
| HAPPEN INC | $2,500 |
| ARCHISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL - BOB KENT SCHOLARSHIP | $2,500 |
| PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE | $250 |
| THE ROME COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (FY17–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 77% 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MHMILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $276k · revenue +29%
- JFJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS4× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +28%
- HIHAPPEN INC2× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- JFJEWS FOR JESUSone grant, 2018 · $30k
- CBCOOPERATIVE BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP - BORDER RELIEFone grant, 2020 · $14k
- CCCOMMUNITY CANCER FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +31%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mills-Peninsula Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Napa Valley State Parks Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 50 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.
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- Who funds THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPEN INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITYPATH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CANCER FUND ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ArtSpan ↗
- Who funds Purdue Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds CALL PRIMROSE ↗
- Who funds HILLSBOROUGH AUXILIARY TO PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
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- Who funds GCCS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds Napa Valley State Parks Association ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
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- Who funds PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE ↗
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: John & Arlette Monfredini Foundation · The Ronald P and Susan E Lynch Foundation C/O Milton Kain · The Joseph W Welch Jr Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Patti and Rusty Rueff 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.
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.
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