· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $833k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE | $400,000 |
| RUDY RUGGLES JR FAMILY FUND - BESSEMER GIVING FUND | $200,000 |
| J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| ACT A CONTEMPORARY THEATRE OF CT | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND | $75,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $60,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $50,000 |
| SCARBOROUGH LAND TRUST | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC | $50,000 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $50,000 |
| SIGMA XI THE SCIENTIFIC | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $45,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +29% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
126 repeat relationships: 84 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 10 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $374k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +111%- TPThe Pierpont Morgan Library7× · 2017–2025 · $239k · revenue +109%
- OFORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES INC4× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- DHDANBURY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $140k
- FOFOUNDATIONS OF NUVANCE HEALTHone grant, 2022 · $90k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $60k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Education and Research
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
How this is measured
118 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 118 of the 175 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 PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY AND INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE WINSOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT ↗
- Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
- Who funds BOZEMAN LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ruggles Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruggles Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Abilis Inc: 74% of income from government
- Plummer Youth Promise Inc: 64% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
- Center for Women & Enterprise Inc: 27% of income from government
- Root Ns Inc: 26% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc: 17% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Food Link Inc: 9% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc: 9% of income from government
- Watch Inc: 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- American Antiquarian Society: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Rvnahealth Inc: 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- American Physical Society: 1% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
- Act of Connecticut: 1% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
- Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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