Arizona · Private foundation
Rudge Foundation
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.
- $154k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 10
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Rudge Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $154k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $155k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $130k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $122k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $125k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $137k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Virginia Alumni Association | $120,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Positive Paths | $102,500 | 6 | 22% |
| Ecolint-American Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Family Resource Center of the Roaring Fork Schools | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Whispering Hope Ranch Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bucknell University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Spectrum Affordable Housing Corporation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Valley Bloom | $3,000 | 1 | 1% |
| USA Deaf Volleyball | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Virginia Alumni Association | $120,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Positive Paths | $102,500 | 6 | 22% |
| Ecolint-American Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Family Resource Center of the Roaring Fork Schools | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Whispering Hope Ranch Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bucknell University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Spectrum Affordable Housing Corporation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Valley Bloom | $3,000 | 1 | 1% |
| USA Deaf Volleyball | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| River Bridge Regional Center Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($519k), not named here.
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Rudge Foundation
- How much does Rudge Foundation give?
- Rudge Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $153,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Rudge Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (45%), Education (37%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are Rudge Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Virginia Alumni Association ($120k), Positive Paths ($103k), Ecolint-American Foundation Inc ($25k).
- Does Rudge Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rudge 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 Rudge Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Rudge Foundation based?
- Rudge Foundation is based in AZ.
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