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Rudd Foundation Inc

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.

$2k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
39%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 23
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$49k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 39% of the organizations Rudd Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentAnimalsPhilanthropyReligionFood & NutritionHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$2k0%
FY202323$6k39%
FY202218$4k28%
FY202120$5k55%
FY202015$6k27%
FY201911$5k36%
FY201812$3k50%
FY201710$3kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$16kReligion$5kPhilanthropy$3kFood & Nutrition$2kHuman Services$1kHealth$1kAnimals$1kCivil Rights$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rudd Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKentucky Resources Council Inc: $8,750 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetRiver Fields Inc: $2,250 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetEarthjustice: $1,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Women and Families Inc: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetImpact100 Louisville Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Heritage Mitzvah Fund Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBridgehaven Inc: $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOld Friends Inc: $550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTreeslouisville Inc: $450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Aid Society Inc: $450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDare to Care Inc: $450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Berry Center Inc: $350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKentucky Humane Society - Animal Rescue: $300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBluegrass Land Conservancy Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKentucky Waterways Alliance Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKentucky Heartwood Inc: $150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kentucky Science Center Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Filson Historical Society Inc: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $50 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Snowy Owl Foundation IncKY30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Charles L Weisberg Family Foundation · Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Clifton Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc

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.

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About Rudd Foundation Inc

How much does Rudd Foundation Inc give?
Rudd Foundation Inc reported 6 grants totaling $2,350 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Rudd Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (47%), Religion (14%), Philanthropy (9%).
Who are Rudd Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kentucky Resources Council Inc ($9k), River Fields Inc ($2k), Earthjustice ($1k).
Does Rudd Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rudd Foundation Inc 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 Rudd Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Snowy Owl Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, W L Lyons Brown Foundation.
Where is Rudd Foundation Inc based?
Rudd Foundation Inc is based in KY.

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 50 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.

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