· Private foundation
Ruffo 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $94k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $88,000 |
| THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE | $27,000 |
| RACINE ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION | $22,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| RACINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC | $7,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN SYSTEMS | $6,000 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN CANCER FOUNDATION INC | $6,000 |
| RACINE COUNTY FOOD BANK | $4,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $4,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY | $4,500 |
| NATIONAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL | $4,500 |
| V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $4,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TPTHE PRAIRIE SCHOOL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $254k · revenue +7%
Cornell University5× · 2021–2025 · $76k · revenue +23%
THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE5× · 2019–2025 · $64k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- RARACINE ART MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $22k
- AOALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF RACINE COUNTY INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +2%
- CACHARLES ALLIS AND VILLA TERRACE MUSEUMS INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.
Our focus is on making shortterm investments which will significantly improve the longterm wellbeing of our clients. we will measure our performance against these standards by continuously communicating with our clients, and will take…
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.
The wisconsin nurses association advocates for policies that positively impact the nursing workforce. the association also supports workplace standards that promoted safe patient and nursing care.the association advocated for full practice…
See detailed description of organization's primary mission provided on schedule o
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Racine County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Root-Pike Watershed Initiative Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds RACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RACINE ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RACINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMFED USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds RACINE COUNTY PROJECT EMERGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds HER JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KENOSHA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPES CENTER OF RACINE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN SYSTEMS ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS ASSISTANCE LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF RACINE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES ALLIS AND VILLA TERRACE MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds Racine Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Racine Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Lang Family Foundation Inc · The Johnson Foundation Inc · Johnson Family Foundation · United Way of Racine County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ascension All Saints Hospital Foundation Inc · Educators Credit Union
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ruffo Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Northampton Survival Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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