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Ruda Foundation Inc

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.

$39k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$136kAnimals$7kCommunity Improvement$6kHealth$5kEducation$4kReligion$2kArts & Culture$1kRecreation & Sports$800Other$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$500
Median grant
10
States reached
$694k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pocono Heritage Land Trust Inc$10,250
Cape Fear River Watch$10,000
Realize Impact$6,000
Amazon Conservation Team$5,000
South Alabama Land Trust$3,000
Kezar Lake Watershed Association$1,000
Truro News Inc$1,000
Washington National Cathedral$500
Langley High School$300
Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund Inc$275
The Kimberley School Foundationm In$250
Wellesley College$250
Deerfield Academy$250
Truro Conservation Trust$250
Greater Washington Educational Tele$250
02The need
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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 (FY25–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Realize Impact: $6k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
ID
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CT
CA
VA
NC
DC
AL
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$125k · 19 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
10

Total granted

$125k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+41%

Still filing today

89%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesScience & TechArts & CultureOther
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

  • PH
    POCONO HERITAGE LAND TRUST
    8× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +664%
  • RR
    ROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST
    3× · 2017–2019 · $11k · revenue +7%
  • GL
    GREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +643%

Funded once

  • NA
    National Audubon Society
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • UO
    University of Massachusetts Medical
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +4%
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
Wilton Land Conservation Trust

Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.

Environment
2
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
3
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and workinglandscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation,stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for…

Environment
4
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
5
Massachusetts Land Conservation Trust

Conservation and preservation of land.

Environment
6
Boothbay Region Land Trust

To conserve for the public benefit natural habitat, scenic beauty, and working land of the Boothbay region of Maine by providing stewardship, public access, and environmental programs.

Environment
7
Westchester Land Trust Inc

The primary mission of the Westchester Land Trust is to conserve, maintain and enhance the natural environment and resources of Westchester County and eastern Putnam County. The Trust acquires interests in land exhibiting important natural…

Environment
8
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
9
Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc

The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…

Environment
10
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
11
Northern California Regional Land Trust

The purpose of the organization is to monitor, manage, and preserve conservation easements it stewards in northern california. the organization acquires conservation easements in land exhibiting important natural features to protect and…

Environment
12
Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Deschutes Land Trust; the most unlike its peers is Nova Southeastern University 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

29 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. 29 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POCONO HERITAGE LAND TRUST: $38,650 · EnvironmentPOCONO HERITAGE LAND TRUSTROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST: $10,750 · EnvironmentROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUSTCape Fear River Watch: $10,000 · EnvironmentCape Fear River WatchGREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST INC: $9,650 · EnvironmentGREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST INCSouth Alabama Land Trust Inc: $8,000 · EnvironmentSouth Alabama Land Trust IncTRURO ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC % JOANNE HOLLANDER: $7,250 · EnvironmentTRURO ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC % JOANNE HOLLANDERMagic Canoe: $7,000 · EnvironmentMagic Canoe+7 more: $8,500 · Environment+7 moreLand Conservation Assistance Network: $21,900 · PhilanthropyLand Conservation As…COASTAL LAND TRUST INC: $7,000 · PhilanthropyCOASTAL LAND TRUST I…National Audubon Society: $5,700 · OtherNational Aud…University of Massachusetts Medical: $5,000 · OtherUniversity o…PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D OF C: $1,875 · OtherPROTESTANT E…ECOTRUST: $1,500 · OtherECOTRUSTLangley High School: $800 · Other+7 more: $2,500 · Other+7 moreRealize Impact: $6,000 · Human ServicesAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $5,000 · Science & TechTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $1,250 · EducationNova Southeastern University Inc: $1,000 · EducationTRURO NEWS INC % BRIAN BOYLE: $1,000 · EducationTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $775 · EducationBETA THETA PI FOUNDATION: $500 · EducationWellesley College: $250 · EducationAmerican Bird Conservancy: $1,500 · Animals
Environment$99,800Philanthropy$28,900Other$17,375Human Services$6,000Science & Tech$5,000Education$4,775Animals$1,500

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 budgetPOCONO HERITAGE LAND TRUST: $38,650 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetLand Conservation Assistance Network: $21,900 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST: $10,750 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetGREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST INC: $9,650 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSouth Alabama Land Trust Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTRURO ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC % JOANNE HOLLANDER: $7,250 over 4y, 29% of budgetCOASTAL LAND TRUST INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEZAR LAKE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $2,750 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COASTAL LAND TRUST: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST: $1,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetECOTRUST: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MOUNTAINS-TO-SEA TRAIL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $775 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETA THETA PI FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $250 over 1y, 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.

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.

National Fish and Wil…The Nature ConservancyPatagoniaorgMaine Community Found…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Network for Good
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC20.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Patagoniaorg · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good

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 Ruda Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruda Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Deschutes Land Trust: 46% of income from government
  • Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Western Rivers Conservancy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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
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 Ruda Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ruda Foundation Inc 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 37 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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