· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $78k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUN LAKES METHODIST CHURCH | $60,000 |
| ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $20,000 |
| ECOLINT-AMERICAN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| POSITIVE PATHS | $17,500 |
| TIFFANY FOUNDATION - TIFFANY FUND | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SNOWMASS CHAPEL | $5,000 |
| SPECTRUM AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| RIVERBRIDGE REGIONAL CENTER | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SLSUN LAKES METHODIST CHURCH6× · 2020–2025 · $343k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue -55%
- PPPOSITIVE PATHS6× · 2020–2025 · $103k · revenue +258%
Funded once
- FRFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF THE ROARING FORK SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $20k
- TWTHE WHISPERING HOPE RANCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -95%
Bucknell Universitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +28%
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.
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.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
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Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
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To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE PATHS ↗
- Who funds Ecolint-American Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WHISPERING HOPE RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VALLEY BLOOM ↗
- Who funds RIVER BRIDGE REGIONAL CENTER INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rudge Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rudge Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 13% of income from government
How this is measured
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