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Robert H Ruby Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Robert H Ruby Charitable Foundation

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.

$175k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$868kHealth$252kHuman Services$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMPANION ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY$70,000
AUTUMN ACRES ANIMAL RESCUE$23,000
MELISSA'S SECOND CHANCES$20,000
HORSES & HEROES$20,000
THE RESCUE PROJECT$20,000
ALWAYS AND FUREVER ANIMAL SANCTUARY$15,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $22k → 17%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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 12 repeat orgs$197k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
13

Total granted

$1.0M
$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%
0%

Still filing today

58%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CA
    COMPANION ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $420k · revenue +34%
  • HH
    HORSES & HEROES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $252k · revenue +353% · 43% of their budget
  • PS
    PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN
    2× · 2017–2018 · $32k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $23k
  • PB
    PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $22k · revenue +11%
  • HI
    HOPE IN THE VALLEY EQUINE RESCUE
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
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.

1
Raskels Rescue
Animals
2
Muttsnstuff

Rescue animals

Animals
3
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
4
Purple Paws 2nd Chance Rescue
Animals
5
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
6
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
7
Pats Pets Corporation

Animal rescue

Animals
8
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
9
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals
10
Kitten Around Cat Rescue
Animals
11
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
12
Four Paws One Heart

Animal rescue

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adams County Pet Rescue; the most unlike its peers is Ll Dog Rescue. 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

12 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. 12 of the 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMPANION ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY: $420,000 · AnimalsCOMPANION ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETYADAMS COUNTY PET RESCUE: $57,500 · AnimalsADAMS COUNTY PET RESCUETHE RESCUE PROJECT: $40,000 · AnimalsTHE RESCUE PROJECTRED WAGGIN RESCUE: $32,375 · AnimalsPASADO'S SAFE HAVEN: $32,375 · AnimalsAlways & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary: $25,000 · Animals+4 more: $50,000 · Animals+4 moreQUINCY ANIMAL SHELTER: $57,500 · OtherQUINCY ANIMAL SHELTERAUTUMN ACRES ANIMAL RESCUE: $48,500 · OtherAUTUMN ACRES ANIMAL RESCUEBONNER ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $30,000 · OtherBONNER ANIMAL RESCUE INCIndividual grant recipient: $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOPE IN THE VALLEY EQUINE RESCUE: $15,000 · OtherRISEN FROM THE ASHES HORSE RESCUE: $15,000 · OtherGIDDYUP HORSE & ANIMAL RESCUE: $15,000 · Other+6 more: $57,000 · Other+6 moreHORSES & HEROES INC: $252,000 · HealthHORSES & HEROES INCPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $22,000 · Human Services
Animals$657,250Other$300,500Health$252,000Human Services$22,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMPANION ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY: $420,000 over 9y, 13% of budgetHORSES & HEROES INC: $252,000 over 9y, 43% of budgetADAMS COUNTY PET RESCUE: $57,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHE RESCUE PROJECT: $40,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetPASADO'S SAFE HAVEN: $32,375 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAlways & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $22,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMELISSAS MENAGERIES SECOND CHANCES: $20,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetKITTY CITY KANSAS RESCUE INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetFURRY KIDS REFUGE: $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% 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.

  • Who funds COMPANION ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HORSES & HEROES INC ↗
  • Who funds ADAMS COUNTY PET RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds THE RESCUE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds RED WAGGIN RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN ↗
  • Who funds Always & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary ↗
  • Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
  • Who funds MELISSAS MENAGERIES SECOND CHANCES ↗
  • Who funds LL DOG RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds KITTY CITY KANSAS RESCUE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds FURRY KIDS REFUGE ↗

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.

Greater Kansas City C…Hallmark Corporate Fo…Lamb Weston Charitabl…Edward Jones Foundati…Network for GoodThe Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Robert H Ruby Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert H Ruby Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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