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Minnesota · Public charity

Ruff Start Rescue Inc

Ruff start rescue is dedicated to saving the lives of animals in need. We improve animal welfare in communities through adoption, education, and providing resources for people and pets.

$21k
Granted FY2022
1
Itemized grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$2k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$2,400
Largest grant, FY2022
$2,400
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$2.7M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lake Traverse Animal Rezcue$2,40023%

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.

Hunger Solutions Minn…Mightycause Charitabl…The Graco FoundationXcel Energy FoundationSecond Harvest North …Second Harvest Northl…Connexus Energy Found…Edina Realty Foundati…Otto Bremer TrustThe Minneapolis Found…Edward Jones Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …
Hunger Solutions MinnesotaMN17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Second Harvest North Central Food Bank · Second Harvest Northland · Connexus Energy Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving 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 Ruff Start Rescue Inc

How much does Ruff Start Rescue Inc give?
Ruff Start Rescue Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $2,400, out of $20,867 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing.
What does Ruff Start Rescue Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2022, its largest causes are Animals (100%).
Who are Ruff Start Rescue Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2022: Lake Traverse Animal Rezcue ($2k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Ruff Start Rescue Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hunger Solutions Minnesota, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, The Graco Foundation.
Where is Ruff Start Rescue Inc based?
Ruff Start Rescue Inc is based in MN.

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 1 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $93k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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