Delaware · Private foundation
Rugged Elegance Foundation
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.
- $291k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 59%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 60
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 59% of the organizations Rugged Elegance Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 16 | $282k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $241k | 59% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $304k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $592k | 79% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $433k | 72% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $318k | 70% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $269k | 65% |
| FY2017 | 60 | $341k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| MLife | $218,810 | 5 | 75% |
| She-Can Global Inc | $197,690 | 6 | 3% |
| Pathways to Peace | $175,000 | 3 | 78% |
| Yoga Next | $175,000 | 2 | 92% |
| Tidepool Project | $120,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Reimagine Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Cinema Napa Valley | $80,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Roots Africa Inc | $70,050 | 5 | 9% |
| Grassroot Soccer Inc | $62,817 | 5 | 0% |
| The Peace Studio | $60,000 | 1 | 4% |
Show all 148 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($372k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rugged Elegance Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 128 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Groundswell Fund · Stonewall Community Foundation · Surdna Foundation Inc · North Star Fund Inc · Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc
How this is measured
About Rugged Elegance Foundation
- How much does Rugged Elegance Foundation give?
- Rugged Elegance Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $291,494 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 60 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Rugged Elegance Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (25%), Religion (15%), Education (12%).
- Who are Rugged Elegance Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: MLife ($219k), She-Can Global Inc ($198k), Pathways to Peace ($175k).
- Does Rugged Elegance Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rugged Elegance Foundation 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 Rugged Elegance Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The Ford Foundation, New York Women's Foundation Inc.
- Where is Rugged Elegance Foundation based?
- Rugged Elegance Foundation is based in DE.
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