· Private foundation
Peter B and Adeline W Ruffin Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $530k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+6 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF UVA | $625,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $500,000 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $250,000 |
| SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| THURGOOD MARSHAL COLLEGE FUND | $250,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| CARE USA | $150,000 |
| FIRST RESPONDERS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $100,000 |
| SAINT MARY'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $100,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $100,000 |
| FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS TOWN | $100,000 |
| KERR COUNTY FLOOD RELIEF FUND | $100,000 |
| GIVEWELL TOP CHARITIES FUND | $100,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $460k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Peter B and Adeline W Ruffin Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
95 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 7 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $362k 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
- WFWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL4× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +52%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2024–2025 · $750k · revenue +3%
- TCThe Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame4× · 2020–2025 · $644k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- WSWOODBURY SCHOOLSone grant, 2023 · $500k
- SMST MARYS COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $350k
THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue -5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Dominic's Family Services (Formerly Saint Dominic's Home) and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 131 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 WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame ↗
- Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUNDWATERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Catching the Dream ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds THE ELM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Kiawah Cares Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE FOR FAMILIES 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: Indian River Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Grand Harbor Community Outreach Program Inc · The John's Island Foundation Inc · United Way of Indian River County Inc · Bucks Creek Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Peter B and Adeline W Ruffin Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc — 5% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% 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.