Massachusetts · Private foundation
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.
- $6.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2024
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 65
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $164M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Ruderman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 38 | $5.5M | 42% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $4.5M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $10M | 47% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $4.4M | 40% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $4.1M | 40% |
| FY2019 | 58 | $4.4M | 43% |
| FY2018 | 63 | $4.3M | 60% |
| FY2017 | 65 | $3.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $2,865,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Society of the University of Haifa | $2,325,000 | 8 | 34% |
| Academy Foundation | $1,575,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center | $980,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Machne Israel Inc | $879,070 | 4 | n/a |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $629,851 | 4 | 0% |
| American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ | $610,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Red Sox Foundation Inc | $536,155 | 4 | 2% |
| Gateways Access to Jewish Education Inc | $443,750 | 7 | 5% |
| William James College Inc | $398,100 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 146 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 76 recipients with no EIN on record ($25M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ruderman Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 124 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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)
How this is measured
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About Ruderman Family Foundation
- How much does Ruderman Family Foundation give?
- Ruderman Family Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $5,951,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ruderman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (43%), International (15%), Health (13%).
- Who are Ruderman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ($2.9M), American Society of the University of Haifa ($2.3M), Academy Foundation ($1.6M).
- Does Ruderman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ruderman Family Foundation 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 Ruderman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is Ruderman Family Foundation based?
- Ruderman Family Foundation is based in MA.
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