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Ruderman Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $250k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RUDERMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ISRAEL (AMUTAH) | $3,000,000 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIV OF HAIFA | $400,000 |
| WILLIAM JAMES COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $205,000 |
| NEW META ENTERTAINMENT INC (NME) | $200,000 |
| THE GIVING BACK FUND | $200,000 |
| BAMIDBAR | $185,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY | $155,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $150,000 |
| THE PRINCETON REVIEW - TPR EDUCATION | $132,000 |
| HEBREW SENIORLIFE | $100,000 |
| UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONG AMERICA | $100,000 |
| ANDREA BOCELLI FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NEWFILMMAKERS LA (SCRIPTED ISRAEL) | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (LEARNINGWELL) | $90,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 70% of grant dollars ($34M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 30% that went abroad ($14M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $356k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 30% of all-years giving ($14M)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Ruderman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
82 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $761k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc5× · 2017–2022 · $2.9M · revenue +24%- ASAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +57% · 34% of their budget
- AFACADEMY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +6%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAMIR MEDICAL CENTER (ASSAF HAROFEH)one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- VMVARIETY MEDIA LLCone grant, 2023 · $235k
- HFHOPEWELL FUND (RARE IMPACT)one grant, 2022 · $200k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
143 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 143 of the 233 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Beker Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Adelson Family Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Fine Family Charitable Foundation · Rosalyn and Richard Slifka Charitable Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ruderman Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Plummer Youth Promise Inc — 64% of income from government
- Disability Law Center Inc — 57% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Association of University Centers On Disabilities — 34% of income from government
- Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- William James College Inc — 11% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Gateways Access to Jewish Education Inc — 7% of income from government
- Metrowest Jewish Day School Inc Attn F David Rothkopf — 4% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- ME2 Orchestra Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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