California · Private foundation
Ruan Family 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.
- $4.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 78%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,900,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 9
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $91M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 78% of the organizations Ruan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 10 | $3.2M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $330k | 78% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $160k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $27k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Harold and Carole Pump Foundation (Fka the Harold Pump Foundation) | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Hippocratic Cancer Research Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Baby2baby | $48,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Animal Legal Defense Fund Inc | $48,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Southern California Public Radio | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nami Westside La | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Whole Child - Mental Health & Housing Services | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Waste No Food | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Harold and Carole Pump Foundation (Fka the Harold Pump Foundation) | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Hippocratic Cancer Research Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Baby2baby | $48,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Animal Legal Defense Fund Inc | $48,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Southern California Public Radio | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nami Westside La | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Whole Child - Mental Health & Housing Services | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Waste No Food | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| All Within My Hands | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| One Tree Planted Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ruan Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Ruan Family Foundation
- How much does Ruan Family Foundation give?
- Ruan Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $4,444,212 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Ruan Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (73%), Education (22%), Arts & Culture (2%).
- Who are Ruan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: The Harold and Carole Pump Foundation (Fka the Harold Pump Foundation) ($100k), Hippocratic Cancer Research Foundation Inc ($50k), Baby2baby ($49k).
- Does Ruan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ruan Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ruan Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Ruan Family Foundation based?
- Ruan Family Foundation is based in CA.
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