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Patti and Rusty Rueff Foundation at a glance

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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.

$154k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% 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$1.5MReligion$579kHealth$297kHuman Services$22kEducation$21kEmployment$19kRecreation & Sports$18kFood & Nutrition$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
$3,200
Median grant
5
States reached
$533k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HAPPEN INC$2,500
ARCHISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL - BOB KENT SCHOLARSHIP$2,500
JOHN PURDUE CLUB$2,500
THE ROME COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$250
PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE$250
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HAPPEN INC: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $10k → 12%HAPPEN INC: $3k → 16%HILLSBOROUGH AUXILIARY TO PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $3k → 7%HILLSBOROUGH AUXILIARY TO PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $3k → 7%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $1k → 7%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $250 → 7%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

WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
IN
OH
NJ
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
DC
AL
GA
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 20 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
26

Total granted

$2.3M
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-10%
+16%

Still filing today

60%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthEmploymentFood & 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

  • MH
    MILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $276k · revenue +29%
  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    4× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +115%
  • HI
    HAPPEN INC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWS FOR JESUS
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • CB
    COOPERATIVE BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP - BORDER RELIEF
    one grant, 2020 · $14k
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +5%
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.

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Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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5
Advance Sf

Advance SF is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco through education, advocacy, and research. The…

Human Services
6
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
7
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
8
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
9
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
10
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
11
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mills-Peninsula Hospital Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
15/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACT (AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER): $1,326,055 · OtherACT (AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER)CORNERSTONE CHURCH: $379,000 · OtherCORNERSTONE CHURCHST ANDREWS: $130,758 · OtherST ANDREWS+28 more: $172,400 · Other+28 moreMILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $276,300 · HealthMILLS-PENINSU…ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $75,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureJ KRUSE EDUCATION CENTER INC: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,750 · Arts & CultureHAPPEN INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $10,000 · Human ServicesHILLSBOROUGH AUXILIARY TO PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $5,500 · Human ServicesPENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $1,250 · Human ServicesPurdue Research Foundation: $6,500 · EducationGCCS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $3,500 · EducationABILITYPATH: $11,000 · EmploymentSUMMER SEARCH: $3,500 · EmploymentCALL PRIMROSE: $6,250 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,008,213Health$286,800Arts & Culture$90,750Human Services$29,250Education$20,000Employment$14,500Food & Nutrition$9,250

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 budgetMILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $276,300 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE FORWARD INC: $27,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INC: $13,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHAPPEN INC: $12,500 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetABILITYPATH: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetArtSpan: $9,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPurdue Research Foundation: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALL PRIMROSE: $6,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHILLSBOROUGH AUXILIARY TO PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $5,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGCCS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ KRUSE EDUCATION CENTER INC: $4,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNapa Valley State Parks Association: $3,200 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJazz at the Ballroom Inc: $1,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCounterPulse: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROME COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget21ST CENTURY PARKS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC: $250 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.

John & Arlette Monfre…The Ronald P and Susa…The Joseph W Welch Jr…The William & Flora H…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Silicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…
John & Arlette Monfredini FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Patti and Rusty Rueff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patti and Rusty Rueff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Patti and Rusty Rueff Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Patti and Rusty Rueff Foundation 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 50 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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