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Rudlaff Family Foundation at a glance

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Rudlaff Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$38k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$98kEducation$77kHealth$77kAnimals$29kInternational$13kFood & Nutrition$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$10k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$181k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALVATION ARMY DISASTER RELIEF$10,000
PENRICKTON CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDRE$7,500
SAMARITANS PURSE$5,000
SALVATION ARMY$5,000
PAWS WITH A CAUSE$5,000
ANIMAL REFUGE CENTER$2,500
CROW$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $10k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $5k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $5k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $5k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $5k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $5k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $5k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $3k → 10%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.
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.
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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 30% of Rudlaff Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 36% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 30%.

Rudlaff Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 29% 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$272k · 13 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +86% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
6

Total granted

$272k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
+18%

Still filing today

69%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationHealthReligionOther
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

  • PC
    Penrickton Center for Blind Children
    9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +87%
  • PW
    Paws With A Cause
    8× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +86%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $13k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • AT
    AIR TREK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • FF
    FATHER FRED FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -1%
  • AA
    ALZHEIMER ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
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
Florida Pointer Rescue Inc

Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f

Animals
2
Humane Society of Manatee County

The humane society of manatee county leads the community in fostering compassion and respect for animals through quality care, education, and advocacy to improve the lives of animals and strengthen the human-animal bond.

Animals
3
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
4
Lake Humane Society

Mission: to protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education. vision: leading and guiding a humane lake county core values: compassion for pets and people. engagement through innovative programs,…

Animals
5
Flagler Humane Society Inc

We transform the lives of animals with compassionate care and services, outstanding educational programs, and advocacy for all animals.

Animals
6
Saving Paws Rescue of Florida Inc

To assist in the medical care, misc care and rehoming of animals that do not have a home

Animals
7
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
8
Tri County Humane Society

Tri-county animal rescue is a no-kill, nonprofit animal shelter working to prevent the killing of over 573,000 unwanted pets in broward, miami-dade, and palm beach counties. tri-county has no boundaries; we go all over the u.s. whenever we…

Animals
9
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tampa Bay Florida Inc

Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…

Animals
10
Pet Pal Rescue Inc

Our mission is to rescue animals from animal shelters that may otherwise be euthanized due to time limitations, illness, injuries or lack of socialization and training.

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11
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
12
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gulf Coast Humane Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

14 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. 14 of the 21 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $72,580 · OtherGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYSALVATION ARMY: $52,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMYAIR TREK INC: $19,564 · OtherAIR TREK INCSALVATION ARMY DISASTER RELIEF: $10,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY DISASTER RELIEF+4 more: $8,000 · OtherPenrickton Center for Blind Children: $52,500 · HealthPenrickton Center f…Paws With A Cause: $42,500 · Human ServicesPaws With A Caus…FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Human ServicesFATHER FRED FOUN…ANIMAL REFUGE CENTER INC: $9,000 · AnimalsANIMAL REF…MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE: $9,000 · AnimalsMICHIGAN A…GULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $6,750 · AnimalsGULF COAST…CLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC: $2,500 · AnimalsCLINIC FOR…PALM VALLEY ANIMAL SOCIETY FKA PALM VALLEY ANIMAL CENTER: $1,500 · AnimalsSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $12,500 · ReligionGLADIOLUS FOOD PANTRY INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionLACES OF LOVE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $2,750 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Education
Other$162,644Health$52,500Human Services$45,000Animals$28,750Religion$12,500Food & Nutrition$7,000Education$4,250

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 budgetPenrickton Center for Blind Children: $52,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetPaws With A Cause: $42,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL REFUGE CENTER INC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE: $9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $6,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGLADIOLUS FOOD PANTRY INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLACES OF LOVE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $2,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALM VALLEY ANIMAL SOCIETY FKA PALM VALLEY ANIMAL CENTER: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Penrickton Center for Blind Children ↗
  • Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL REFUGE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds GULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds GLADIOLUS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds LACES OF LOVE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds FATHER FRED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds PALM VALLEY ANIMAL SOCIETY FKA PALM VALLEY ANIMAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN 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.

Raymond James Charita…Southwest Florida Com…Leslie L Alexander Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL13.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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