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Ruesch Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$658k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
42%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$35,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 14
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$10M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Ruesch Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$658k18%
FY202312$808k42%
FY20229$705k0%
FY20217$695k14%
FY202014$861k50%
FY201913$501k46%
FY201811$620kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.7MEducation$1.4MHealth$981kReligion$315kHuman Services$225kFood & Nutrition$125kInternational$120kPhilanthropy$60kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts$1,280,00060%
Gonzaga College High School$850,0004n/a
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$600,00050%
Georgetown University$455,00070%
Medstar Health Inc$200,00020%
Jesuit Refugee Service USA$115,0005n/a
Washington Performing Arts Society$107,50041%
National Rehabilitation Hospital$100,00020%
The Father McKenna Center Inc$100,00032%
Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc$100,00030%
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All grantees of Ruesch Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts$1,280,00060%
Gonzaga College High School$850,0004n/a
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$600,00050%
Georgetown University$455,00070%
Medstar Health Inc$200,00020%
Jesuit Refugee Service USA$115,0005n/a
Washington Performing Arts Society$107,50041%
National Rehabilitation Hospital$100,00020%
The Father McKenna Center Inc$100,00032%
Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc$100,00030%
National Symphony Orch Assn of Washington DC$75,000211%
Potomac Community Resources Inc$65,00052%
Washington Jesuit Academy$36,0002n/a
The National Catholic Reporter Publishing Co$30,00010%
American Pops Orchestra$25,0001n/a
White Truck Charitable Foundation$25,00018%
Save The Children Federation Inc$20,00020%
The Phillips Collection$15,00010%
Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn$13,00020%
Elizabeth Seton High School$10,0001n/a
Manhattan School of Music$10,00010%
The Shakespeare Theatre$10,00010%
Anti-Defamation League$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($601k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ruesch Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJohn F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: $1,280,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc: $600,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGeorgetown University: $455,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMedstar Health Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Performing Arts Society: $107,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNational Rehabilitation Hospital: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Father McKenna Center Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetVital Voices Global Partnership Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNational Symphony Orch Assn of Washington DC: $75,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPotomac Community Resources Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetThe National Catholic Reporter Publishing Co: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWhite Truck Charitable Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Phillips Collection: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetManhattan School of Music: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shakespeare Theatre: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC18.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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About Ruesch Family Foundation Inc

How much does Ruesch Family Foundation Inc give?
Ruesch Family Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $658,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Ruesch Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Education (28%), Health (20%).
Who are Ruesch Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ($1.3M), Gonzaga College High School ($850k), Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc ($600k).
Does Ruesch Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ruesch 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 Ruesch Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation, Clark-Winchcole Foundation.
Where is Ruesch Family Foundation Inc based?
Ruesch Family Foundation Inc is based in MI.

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 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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