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Ruach Foundation at a glance

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Ruach 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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$83kHealth$70kPhilanthropy$50kCivil Rights$30kInternational$25kPublic Benefit$15kEnvironment$10k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$377k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIDES FOUNDATION$20,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND$15,000
PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION$15,000
ACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS$10,000
FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 28% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS: $10k → 16%TIDES FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $25k → 9%WE CARE FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND: $15k → 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS SERIVCE COMMITTEE OF NH: $5k → 7%ACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS: $10k → 16%SUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $10k → 14%FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION: $28k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND: $10k → 10%FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND: $10k → 10%FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND: $10k → 10%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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$148k · 3 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$148k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+39%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’25
Civil RightsRecreation & SportsHealthEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • FA
    FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $83k · revenue +77%
  • PP
    Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc
    4× · 2019–2025 · $45k · revenue +22%
  • ACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC
    2× · 2019–2025 · $20k · revenue -45%

Funded once

  • WC
    WE CARE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +44%
  • SM
    SUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -13%
  • CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +39%
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
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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2
Farmworker Justice Fund Inc

Farmworker justice fund, inc. is a non-profit corporation established under the laws of the district of columbia. its mission is to empower farmworkers to improve their wages, working conditions, occupational safety, health, immigration…

Civil Rights
3
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc

The cooperative for assistance and relief everywhere, inc. and its subsidiaries (care or the organization) was established in 1945 and is an international humanitarian organization delivering emergency relief and long-term international…

International
4
Partners of the Americas Foundation

To advance the social economic well being of the americas.

International
5
Plus Action Fund

Advocacy for Paid Family Leave for workers in the US

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6
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
7
Climate Access Fund Corporation

The Climate Access Fund develops and finances community solar products that serve low to moderate income households

Environment
8
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
9
Media Matters for America

Dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the u.s. media.

Education
10
The Energy Foundation

The energy foundation's mission is to achieve greenhouse gas emissions neutrality, world-class air quality, energy access, and green growth through transforming energy and optimizing economic structure.

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11
Oxfam America Action Fund Inc

Oxfam america action fund (oaaf) is a partner organization to oxfam america. oaaf strives to end global poverty, hunger, and social injustice through legislative lobbying and political advocacy.

Civil Rights
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Defense Fund; the most unlike its peers is We Care Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC: $83,000 · Recreation & SportsFARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION IN…TIDES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERI…Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $45,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood…WE CARE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherWE CARE FOUN…AMERICAN FRIENDS SERIVCE COMMITTEE OF NH: $5,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRI…ACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsACLU FOUND…CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $5,000 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S…PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Public BenefitSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 · Environment
Recreation & Sports$83,000Philanthropy$75,000Health$45,000Other$30,000Civil Rights$25,000Public Benefit$15,000Environment$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC: $83,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ruach Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruach Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Farm and Wilderness Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
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.

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 10 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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