· Private foundation
R Ruth 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL HISTORICAL FIRE FOUN | $1,500 |
| ST BARNABAS ON THE DESERT | $1,500 |
| ST CROIX ANIMAL WELFARE CENTER | $1,250 |
| RIO FERNANDO FIRE DISTRICT | $1,000 |
| THE ANZA TRAIL COALITION OF ARIZONA | $1,000 |
| AMIGOS BRAVOS | $1,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,000 |
| WOMEN'S BOARD OF BARROWS NEURO | $800 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA CRUZ | $750 |
| TUBAC CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $500 |
| HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY | $500 |
| ARIZONA PUBLIC MEDIA | $500 |
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 (FY17–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
59 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2024, 4 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; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ABAmigos Bravos Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +206%
- ESEQUINE SPIRIT SANCTUARY8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +167%
- BNBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- SASTARSHINE ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $3k
- SGSCOTTSDALE GIRLS & BOYS CLUBone grant, 2020 · $1k
- CFCHANGE FOR EVERY CHILDone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…
We save the most vulnerable animals and enrich the lives of pets and people.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
The american civil liberties union of arizona is the state's premier guardian of liberty working through the arizona legislature and communities statewide to defend and preserve individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
We stabilize people during crisis and transition, build a foundation where people can thrive, and preserve dignity and respect for the most vulnerable.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 67 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 Amigos Bravos Inc ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX ANIMAL WELFARE CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds EQUINE SPIRIT SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Center for Food Safety ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Santa Cruz ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
- Who funds DREAM TREE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization R Ruth Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from R Ruth Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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