California · Private foundation
Ruiz 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.
- $22k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2024
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $22,021
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $22,021
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $332k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Ruiz Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 1 | $22k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $22k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $26k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $1k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $900 | 100% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $2k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Las Vegas Valley Humane Society | $74,385 | 4 | 7% |
| Steps Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of San Diego County Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Poppy Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Tails Of Nye County Inc | $300 | 1 | n/a |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($2k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Ruiz Family Foundation
- How much does Ruiz Family Foundation give?
- Ruiz Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $22,021 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ruiz Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (84%), Employment (5%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are Ruiz Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Las Vegas Valley Humane Society ($74k), Steps Inc ($5k), Junior Achievement of San Diego County Inc ($5k).
- Does Ruiz Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ruiz 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 Ruiz Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Ruiz Family Foundation based?
- Ruiz Family Foundation is based in CA.
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