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Ruark Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$315k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$503kHuman Services$107kCommunity Improvement$91kFood & Nutrition$49kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kRecreation & Sports$16kPhilanthropy$13kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $238k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GUTHRIE HEALTHCARE$100,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
MARLEY'S MISSION$63,255
WYOMING COUNTY FAIR$33,491
SEVEN LOAVES SOUP KITCHEN$12,390
THE WRIGHT CENTER$10,000
ELK LAKE WARRIOR EMPOWERMENT FUND$6,000
PATRIOTS COVE$5,000
WYOMING COUNTY UNITED WAY$5,000
TUNKHANNOCK AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION$5,000
TUNKHANNOCK AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT$250
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ELK LAKE WARRIOR EMPOWERMENT FUND: $10k → 11%PATRIOTS COVE: $51k → 12%GUTHRIE HEALTHCARE: $200k → 12%THE WRIGHT CENTER: $10k → 13%GREATER PITTSTON COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS: $250 → 15%ELK LAKE WARRIOR EMPOWERMENT FUND: $6k → 11%PATRIOTS COVE: $41k → 12%GUTHRIE HEALTHCARE: $100k → 12%MARLEY'S MISSION: $63k → 13%KUNKLE FIRE & AMBULANCE: $75k → 15%TRUE FRIENDS ANIMAL WELFARE CENTER: $1k → 11%PATRIOTS COVE: $5k → 12%MARLEY'S MISSION: $39k → 13%HARTFORD FAIR: $34k → 11%PATRIOTS COVE: $5k → 12%MARLEY'S MISSION: $20k → 13%HARTFORD FAIR: $29k → 11%PATRIOTS COVE: $3k → 12%MARLEY'S MISSION: $16k → 13%HARTFORD FAIR: $23k → 11%WYOMING COUNTY HEALTHCARE CENTER INC: $50k → 12%EQUINES FOR FREEDOM: $15k → 13%WYOMING COUNTY FAIR: $41k → 11%SEVEN LOAVES SOUP KITCHEN: $18k → 12%WYOMING COUNTY FAIR: $33k → 11%SEVEN LOAVES SOUP KITCHEN: $12k → 12%WYOMING COUNTY FAIR: $10k → 11%TUNKHANNOCK AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%WYOMING COUNTY FAIR: $7k → 11%TUNKHANNOCK AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%SHERWOOD FARMS: $6k → 11%TUNKHANNOCK AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%SHERWOOD FARMS: $6k → 11%SEVEN LOAVES SOUP KITCHEN: $7k → 12%ANGAZA MINISTRIES: $2k → 11%TUNKHANNOCK AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%STEPNIAK BEEF: $2k → 11%WYOMING COUNTY UNITED WAY: $5k → 12%STEPNIAK BEEF: $1k → 11%WYOMING COUNTY UNITED WAY: $5k → 12%TIGER FUND FOR EXCELLANCE: $3k → 12%TUNKHANNOCK ROTARY FUND: $3k → 12%LAKE CAREY DAM ASSOCIATION: $2k → 12%MOOSE LODGE 1276: $1k → 12%MOOSE LODGE 1276: $500 → 12%TUNKHANNOCK AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $450 → 12%TUNKHANNOCK AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $250 → 12%TUNKHANNOCK FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION: $100 → 12%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.
$836k · 13 repeat orgs$160k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

$836k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
0%

Still filing today

46%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthCommunity ImprovementReligionEducationPublic BenefitFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MM
    MARLEY'S MISSION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $138k · revenue +0%
  • PC
    PATRIOTS COVE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $105k · revenue +189%
  • TT
    THE TUNKHANNOCK COMMUNITY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • WC
    WYOMING COUNTY HEALTHCARE CENTER II
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • EF
    EQUINES FOR FREEDOM
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -32%
  • TF
    TIGER FUND FOR EXCELLENCE
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
Tunkhannock Library Association

The tunkhannock library associations's mission is to provide all of wyoming county residents free and convenient access to a wide range of information, education, and entertainment through books, periodicals, audion / visual media and…

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2
Tamaqua Community Ambulance

Provider of Emergency Ambulance Services

Health
3
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
4
Tuckers Place Equine Sanctuary

501c3 horse rescue

Animals
5
Wyoming County Special Needs Association
Human Services
6
Veteran Overwatch Foundation Inc

Suppotring veterans in western pennsylvania navigating homelessness, PTSD, substance use disorder so they can thrive in their community

Public Benefit
7
Wayne County Humane Society
Animals
8
Midway Volunteer Fire Department

Fire protection for the borough of midway, pa and the surrounding area

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Veteran Equine Therapy Stables
Public Benefit
10
At Liberty Connections
Health
11
Washington County Life Saving Crew

Emergency rescue & medical services were provided.

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12
Freedom Hooves Therapeutic Riding of Nw Colorado
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wyoming County United Way Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wyoming County Healthcare Center Ii. 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

13 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. 13 of the 24 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
4/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GUTHRIE HEALTHCARE: $300,000 · OtherGUTHRIE HEALTHCAREIndividual grant recipient: $85,468 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE TUNKHANNOCK COMMUNITY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $35,000 · OtherTHE TUNKHANNOCK COMMUNITY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC+10 more: $39,889 · Other+10 moreMARLEY'S MISSION INC: $138,366 · HealthMARLEY'S MISSION INCWYOMING COUNTY HEALTHCARE CENTER II: $50,000 · HealthWYOMING COUNTY HEALTHCA…EQUINES FOR FREEDOM: $15,000 · HealthEQUINES FOR FREEDOMPATRIOTS COVE INC: $105,150 · Public BenefitPATRIOTS CO…Wyoming County Fair Inc: $91,437 · Community ImprovementWyoming Co…+1 more: $2,200 · Community ImprovementSEVEN LOAVES SOUP KITCHEN INC: $37,678 · Food & NutritionThe Wright Center Medical Group: $10,000 · ReligionANGAZA MINISTRIES: $1,500 · ReligionWYOMING COUNTY UNITED WAY INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$535,357Health$203,366Public Benefit$105,150Community Improvement$93,637Food & Nutrition$37,678Religion$11,500Philanthropy$10,000

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 budgetMARLEY'S MISSION INC: $138,366 over 4y, 18% of budgetPATRIOTS COVE INC: $105,150 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetWyoming County Fair Inc: $91,437 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetWYOMING COUNTY HEALTHCARE CENTER II: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSEVEN LOAVES SOUP KITCHEN INC: $37,678 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetTHE TUNKHANNOCK COMMUNITY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $35,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetEQUINES FOR FREEDOM: $15,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetWYOMING COUNTY UNITED WAY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Wright Center Medical Group: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIGER FUND FOR EXCELLENCE: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetANGAZA MINISTRIES: $1,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS ANIMAL WELFARE CENTER: $1,200 over 1y, 0.4% 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 MARLEY'S MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds PATRIOTS COVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Wyoming County Fair Inc ↗
  • Who funds WYOMING COUNTY HEALTHCARE CENTER II ↗
  • Who funds SEVEN LOAVES SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TUNKHANNOCK COMMUNITY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUINES FOR FREEDOM ↗
  • Who funds WYOMING COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Wright Center Medical Group ↗
  • Who funds TIGER FUND FOR EXCELLENCE ↗
  • Who funds LAKE CAREY DAM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ANGAZA MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ANIMAL WELFARE CENTER ↗

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.

Scranton Area Foundat…Amazonsmile Foundation
Scranton Area Foundation IncPA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scranton Area Foundation Inc · 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 Ruark Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruark Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ruark Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ruark Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 24 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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