Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Ruark Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $315k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 15
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Ruark Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $315k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $383k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $192k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $106k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marley's Mission Inc | $138,366 | 4 | 18% |
| Patriots Cove Inc | $105,150 | 4 | 6% |
| Wyoming County Fair Inc | $91,437 | 4 | 8% |
| Wyoming County Healthcare Center II | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Seven Loaves Soup Kitchen Inc | $37,678 | 3 | 8% |
| The Tunkhannock Community Ambulance Association Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Equines for Freedom | $15,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Wyoming County United Way Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Wright Center Medical Group | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tiger Fund for Excellence | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marley's Mission Inc | $138,366 | 4 | 18% |
| Patriots Cove Inc | $105,150 | 4 | 6% |
| Wyoming County Fair Inc | $91,437 | 4 | 8% |
| Wyoming County Healthcare Center II | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Seven Loaves Soup Kitchen Inc | $37,678 | 3 | 8% |
| The Tunkhannock Community Ambulance Association Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Equines for Freedom | $15,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Wyoming County United Way Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Wright Center Medical Group | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tiger Fund for Excellence | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Lake Carey Dam Association | $2,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Angaza Ministries | $1,500 | 1 | 1% |
| True Friends Animal Welfare Center | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($497k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ruark 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: Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ruark Foundation
- How much does Ruark Foundation give?
- Ruark Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $315,386 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 15 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Ruark Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (51%), Human Services (11%), Community Improvement (9%).
- Who are Ruark Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Marley's Mission Inc ($138k), Patriots Cove Inc ($105k), Wyoming County Fair Inc ($91k).
- Does Ruark Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ruark Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ruark Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Scranton Area Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Ruark Foundation based?
- Ruark Foundation is based in PA.
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