· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING | $100,000 |
| HOPE STREET MINISTRY | $50,000 |
| PURE FREEDOM MINISTRIES | $32,500 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $17,500 |
| UNICEF | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY | $10,000 |
| HUMANE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| LAKE COUNTRY CARING | $10,000 |
| NORTH LAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| FAYE GEHL CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LIFE MOVES | $5,000 |
| FAMILY HOUSE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING9× · 2017–2025 · $900k · revenue +59%
HOPE STREET MINISTRY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +82%- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $160k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- NBNORTH BAY FIRE RELIEFone grant, 2017 · $25k
- JYJuntos y Unidos por Puerto Rico Incone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
The mission of mercy health system corporation (mhsc) is "exceptional health care services with a passion for making lives better." the foundation of this mission is based on a vision of quality: excellence in patient care; service:…
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
To advance the health of our communities through excellence and discovery, inspiring each person to live their unique, best life.
Second harvest foodbank exists to end hunger in southwestern wisconsin.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 60 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 MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ↗
- Who funds HOPE STREET MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds PROHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTRY CARING INC ↗
- Who funds North Lake Education Foundation Incorporated ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds ZACHARIAH'S ACRES INC ↗
- Who funds Juntos y Unidos por Puerto Rico Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds FAYE GEHL CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE STARTING POINT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ruehlow Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruehlow Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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