· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN CANCER FOUNDATION INC | $6,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN SYSTEMS | $6,000 |
| RACINE COUNTY FOOD BANK | $4,500 |
| V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $4,500 |
| NATIONAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL | $4,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY | $4,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $4,500 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-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 +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 43 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 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 HOPES CENTER OF RACINE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KENOSHA INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ruffo Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruffo Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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