· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THURGOOD MARSHAL COLLEGE FUND | $250,000 |
| SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| CARE USA | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $100,000 |
| SAINT MARY'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $100,000 |
| FIRST RESPONDERS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| GIVEWELL TOP CHARITIES FUND | $100,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NY | $100,000 |
| FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS TOWN | $100,000 |
| KERR COUNTY FLOOD RELIEF FUND | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Peter B and Adeline W Ruffin Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…
How this is measured
58 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. 58 of the 131 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 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 AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds Catching the Dream ↗
- Who funds THE ELM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Kiawah Cares Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE FOR FAMILIES CENTER 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Peter B and Adeline W Ruffin Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peter B and Adeline W Ruffin Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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