New York · Private foundation
Ruggles Family Foundation
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.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 94
- Grants FY2025
- 107
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 107
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $36M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Ruggles Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 94 | $2.4M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 107 | $2.7M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 74 | $1.4M | 7% |
| FY2022 | 98 | $1.9M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 90 | $1.7M | 40% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $1.5M | 15% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $565k | 14% |
| FY2017 | 59 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plummer Youth Promise Inc | $1,060,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc | $940,000 | 3 | 1% |
| J Craig Venter Institute | $820,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Dreamyard Project Inc | $740,000 | 7 | 4% |
| University of Richmond | $340,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Pierpont Morgan Library | $238,800 | 7 | 0% |
| Organization for Tropical Studies Inc | $215,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Museum of Science | $190,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Newberry Library | $175,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Pine Street Inn Inc | $175,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 115 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ruggles Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 113 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Ruggles Family Foundation
- How much does Ruggles Family Foundation give?
- Ruggles Family Foundation reported 94 grants totaling $2,444,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 107 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Ruggles Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (18%), Youth Development (15%), Education (14%).
- Who are Ruggles Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Plummer Youth Promise Inc ($1.1M), Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc ($940k), J Craig Venter Institute ($820k).
- Does Ruggles Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ruggles Family 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 Ruggles Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Eastern Bank Foundation.
- Where is Ruggles Family Foundation based?
- Ruggles Family Foundation is based in NY.
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