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Ruby Family 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.

$15k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.2MArts & Culture$2.5MInternational$1.9MPhilanthropy$1.5MHealth$1.5MReligion$1.4MCivil Rights$761kHuman Services$238kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,509
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY$10,000
PHASE ONE FOUNDATION$3,509
KUSC$1,340
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $15k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $15k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%FULLFILLMENT FUND: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $2k → 14%FULLFILMENT FUND: $1k → 14%OPICA - ADULT DAY PROGRAM AND COUNSELING CENTER: $1k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.6M · 77 repeat orgs$824k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

77 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
66

Total granted

$9.6M
$824k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+12%

Still filing today

61%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ELNET
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +97%
  • SC
    SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER
    6× · 2017–2022 · $792k · revenue +26%
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    5× · 2017–2023 · $722k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • UH
    UCLA HEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
  • UJ
    UCLA JONSSON COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $150k
  • TM
    THE MUSIC CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
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
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
2
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
3
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
4
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
5
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
7
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
8
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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11
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
12
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Forward Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Esperanza Ny Inc. 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

87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 150 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/87
Grantees still filing
66/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STEPHEN S WISE TEMPLE: $760,800 · OtherSTEPHEN S WISE TEMPLEJEWISH FEDERATION OF LOS ANGELES: $707,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF LOS ANGELESMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $530,000 · OtherMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOLHEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION: $487,000 · OtherHEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGI…LOS ANGELES OPERA: $348,500 · OtherLOS ANGELES OPERAREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $250,000 · OtherAMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY INC: $231,050 · OtherDISCOVERY EYE FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Other+87 more: $2,101,150 · Other+87 moreUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,964,500 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $245,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVE…AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $152,500 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVE…Harmony Project: $120,000 · Education+7 more: $116,840 · EducationFRIENDS OF ELNET: $1,200,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ELNE…WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $200,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INST…AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL…COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $75,000 · International+8 more: $168,500 · International+8 moreSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $791,500 · Arts & CultureSKIRBALL CUL…LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $301,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES …Los Angeles Youth Orchestra: $245,000 · Arts & CultureLos Angeles …MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $110,500 · Arts & Culture+12 moreAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $722,000 · Civil RightsJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $706,400 · Philanthropy+2 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN CARE FOUNDATION: $90,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $80,000 · HealthPHASE ONE FOUNDATION: $53,509 · HealthMacular Degeneration Association: $35,000 · HealthALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES: $30,000 · Health+6 more: $15,775 · Health
Other$5,615,500Education$2,598,840International$1,843,500Arts & Culture$1,498,000Civil Rights$722,000Philanthropy$721,400Health$504,284

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,964,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET: $1,200,000 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $791,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $722,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $706,400 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $530,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $301,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles Youth Orchestra: $245,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $245,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY INC: $231,050 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDISCOVERY EYE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $152,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $125,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHarmony Project: $120,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $95,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN CARE FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $80,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $75,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $65,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPHASE ONE FOUNDATION: $53,509 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $48,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $43,340 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $42,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMacular Degeneration Association: $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $27,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLIN MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LAWFARE PROJECT INC: $19,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROESSLER-CHADWICK FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL AT UCLA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEATHER ABBOTT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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 UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
  • Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
  • Who funds MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Los Angeles Youth Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY EYE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Harmony Project ↗
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds PHASE ONE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Jewish Community Foun…California Community …Jewish Community Foun…The Stanley & Joyce B…The Rosalinde and Art…Jewish Federation Cou…Lynn & Les Bider Fami…Richard and Ellen San…SAMUEL and HELENE SOR…The Field Family FundBanc of California Ch…The Ralph M Parsons F…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA31.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Group · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Lynn & Les Bider Family Foundation · Richard and Ellen Sandler Family Foundation · SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION · The Field Family Fund · Banc of California Charitable Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons 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 Ruby Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruby Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Ruby Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ruby Family 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 150 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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