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Ruderman Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$6.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$21MInternational$7.3MHealth$6.1MReligion$4.6MEducation$4.1MArts & Culture$3.4MCivil Rights$699kYouth Development$341kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $250k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+3 grants · $3.6M
$40,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$164M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE GIVING BACK FUND$200,000
NEW META ENTERTAINMENT INC (NME)$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
ANDREA BOCELLI FOUNDATION$100,000
HEBREW SENIORLIFE$100,000
NEWFILMMAKERS LA (SCRIPTED ISRAEL)$100,000
UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONG AMERICA$100,000
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (LEARNINGWELL)$90,000
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.

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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $5k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $4k → 16%JEWISH ADOPTION & FOSTER CARE OPTIONS: $20k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1k → 16%BOCA WEST CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%JEWISH ADOPTION & FOSTER CARE OPTIONS: $20k → 13%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF MIAMI INC: $25k → 15%THE OPEN DOOR: $5k → 14%PATHFINDERS JUSTICE INITIATIVE INC: $500 → 28%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1k → 16%ASSN OF UNIV CTRS ON DISABILITIES (AUCD): $5k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTH SHORE: $25k → 10%ASSN OF UNIV CTRS ON DISABILITIES (AUCD): $5k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTH SHORE: $25k → 10%ASSN OF UNIV CTRS ON DISABILITIES (AUCD): $2k → 8%YAD CHAIM: $5k → 7%ANGEL CITY SPORTS: $1k → 14%BOCA RATON SOCIETY FOR THE DISABLED TP: $5k → 11%MATAN: $4k → 17%MASSACHUSETTS SIBLING SUPPORT NETWORK: $1k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTH SHORE: $15k → 10%NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INDEPENDENT LIVING: $65k → 14%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $4k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON: $15k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MANHATTAN: $5k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MANHATTAN: $5k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON: $1k → 8%PINE STREET INN INC: $1k → 16%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $45k → 17%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
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 30% of all-years giving ($14M)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Israel$14M · 8 grants
Italy$100k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of Ruderman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Ruderman Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 30% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$37M · 82 repeat orgs$4.5M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
124

Total granted

$37M
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+34%

Still filing today

57%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $761k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $2.9M · revenue +24%
  • AS
    AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +57% · 34% of their budget
  • AF
    ACADEMY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAMIR MEDICAL CENTER (ASSAF HAROFEH)
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • VM
    VARIETY MEDIA LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $235k
  • GG
    GIVING GROUP COMMUNITY - OSIM SHECHUNA
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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2
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…

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3
Jewish News Service Inc

See schedule ojewish news service, inc. ("jns") was organized as a non-profit corporation under the general laws of massachusetts and is an independent business resource and syndication service covering jewish news and israel news for…

Education
4
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
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
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
7
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
8
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
9
Jewish Institute for the Blind (Jerusalem) Inc

To educate, enrich and empower visually impaired people across israel to achieve their full potential and become contributing members of society.

International
10
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
11
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
12
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Matan Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Beker Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

143 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. 143 of the 233 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)
139/143
Grantees still filing
104/143
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RUDERMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ISRAEL (AMUTAH): $14,060,100 · OtherRUDERMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ISRAEL (AMUTAH)MA GENERAL HOSPITALLURIE CENTER: $3,410,000 · OtherMA GENERAL HOSPITALLURIE CENTERJDC AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMM: $1,107,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAMIR MEDICAL CENTER (ASSAF HAROFEH): $1,000,000 · OtherBROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER: $980,000 · Other+116 more: $8,060,420 · Other+116 moreThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $2,865,000 · InternationalThe American Jew…AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $2,325,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY…American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $610,000 · InternationalAmerican Friends…THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC: $369,000 · InternationalTHE GESHER FOUND…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $272,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $270,000 · International+4 more: $188,400 · InternationalCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $4,644,614 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish …PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $750,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOW…THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $536,155 · PhilanthropyTHE RED SOX FOUN…Hebrew Senior Life Inc: $301,000 · Philanthropy+11 more: $667,300 · Philanthropy+11 moreBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $540,000 · EducationGATEWAYS ACCESS TO JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $443,750 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $414,000 · EducationWILLIAM JAMES COLLEGE INC: $398,100 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $217,000 · EducationMARY CHRISTIE INSTITUTE INC: $115,000 · EducationLiteracy Partners Inc: $101,500 · EducationBABSON COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: $90,000 · Education+9 more: $163,115 · EducationACADEMY FOUNDATION: $1,575,000 · Arts & CultureSundance Institute: $160,000 · Arts & CultureBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $130,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $152,870 · Arts & CultureHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $629,851 · ReligionBAMIDBAR: $185,000 · ReligionLAPPIN FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Religion+1 more: $5,000 · ReligionJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL COUNCIL ON INDEPENDENT LIVING: $65,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesJewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $36,036 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF MIAMI INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesBOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION FKA BOCA WEST COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY CENTERS ON DISABILITIES: $12,000 · Human Services+11 more: $46,050 · Human Services
Other$28,617,520International$6,899,400Philanthropy$6,899,069Education$2,582,465Arts & Culture$2,017,870Religion$869,851Human Services$354,086

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $4,644,614 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $2,865,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $2,325,000 over 8y, 34% of budgetACADEMY FOUNDATION: $1,575,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER: $980,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $750,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $629,851 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $610,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $540,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $536,155 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetGATEWAYS ACCESS TO JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $443,750 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $414,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM JAMES COLLEGE INC: $398,100 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GESHER FOUNDATION INC: $369,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $301,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $272,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $270,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $217,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $200,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBAMIDBAR: $185,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSundance Institute: $160,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $148,300 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $137,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $130,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $127,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC: $120,266 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMARY CHRISTIE INSTITUTE INC: $115,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $103,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGeena Davis Institute on Gender in Media: $102,200 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetLiteracy Partners Inc: $101,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: $90,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOSTON JEWISH FILM INC: $70,540 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetNETWORK CONTAGION RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $69,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL ON INDEPENDENT LIVING: $65,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $61,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ON DISABILITY: $55,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PUBLIC GOOD PROJECTS INC: $55,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF: $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLENNY LEARNING INC: $50,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetEVA'S HEROES: $50,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetLAPPIN FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $45,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetJEWISH TEEN INITIATIVE OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $45,000 over 2y, 16% 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 Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAYS ACCESS TO JEWISH EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM JAMES COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
  • Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BAMIDBAR ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE 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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Joseph and Rae Gann C…Boston Foundation IncThe Beker FoundationThe Shimon Ben Joseph…Adelson Family Founda…Eastern Bank Foundati…Jewish Federation of …Fine Family Charitabl…Rosalyn and Richard S…Jewish Community Foun…Cummings Foundation G…
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA64× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 260%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
26get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ruderman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ruderman 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 233 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home