Michigan · Public charity
Rugiero Promise Foundation
Health research, education, and support to the community.
- $204k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $194k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $105,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $174k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Rugiero Promise Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $194k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $132k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $256k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $236k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $166k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $41k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $174k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $119k | 0% |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Health$1.1MFood & Nutrition$125kHuman Services$16kPhilanthropy$10kYouth Development$8k
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Michigan | $970,000 | 9 | 60% |
| Thrilla Gives Inc | $15,500 | 1 | 5% |
| Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($423k), not named here.
About Rugiero Promise Foundation
- How much does Rugiero Promise Foundation give?
- Rugiero Promise Foundation reported 6 itemized grants totaling $193,650, out of $203,650 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rugiero Promise Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (87%), Food & Nutrition (10%), Human Services (1%).
- Who are Rugiero Promise Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Michigan ($970k), Thrilla Gives Inc ($16k), Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan ($6k).
- Does Rugiero Promise Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Rugiero Promise Foundation based?
- Rugiero Promise Foundation is based in MI.
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