Wisconsin · Private foundation
Ruehlow Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $295k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Ruehlow Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $295k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $482k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $255k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $365k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $352k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $228k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $210k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $224k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milwaukee School of Engineering | $900,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Hope Street Ministry Inc | $195,000 | 8 | 5% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $160,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Lake Area Free Clinic Inc | $120,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Prohealth Care Foundation Inc | $105,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Young Life | $92,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Rescue Mission | $77,715 | 7 | n/a |
| Lake Country Caring Inc | $75,000 | 4 | 7% |
| North Lake Education Foundation Incorporated | $55,000 | 4 | 34% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($366k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ruehlow Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Oconomowoc Area Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Arthur C Kootz Foundation · Dalum Family Foundation · Jean & Thomas Harbeck Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Ruehlow Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Ruehlow Family Foundation Inc give?
- Ruehlow Family Foundation Inc reported 16 grants totaling $295,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ruehlow Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Health (18%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are Ruehlow Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Milwaukee School of Engineering ($900k), Hope Street Ministry Inc ($195k), American Heart Association Inc ($160k).
- Does Ruehlow Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ruehlow Family Foundation Inc 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 Ruehlow Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baird Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc.
- Where is Ruehlow Family Foundation Inc based?
- Ruehlow Family Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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