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Rukavina Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$251k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 22
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$4.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Rukavina Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthReligionHousing & ShelterEducationFood & 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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$251k50%
FY202420$235k50%
FY202318$213k44%
FY202219$259k37%
FY202118$242k44%
FY202022$205k50%
FY201916$173k19%
FY201815$181k33%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$400kHealth$390kReligion$345kEducation$300kInternational$152kHousing & Shelter$115kRecreation & Sports$57kYouth Development$37kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
IA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
LA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Together for Good$100,00052%
University Life-Care Center Inc$90,00062%
Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota Inc$70,00041%
Hosanna Church$55,0004n/a
Natopiwo Partners$50,0002n/a
Luther College$45,50040%
St Marys Health Clinics$45,00031%
Duluth Rowing Club$35,000410%
Perspectives Inc$34,50030%
College of St Scholastica Inc$34,00020%
Show all 43 grantees
All grantees of Rukavina Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Together for Good$100,00052%
University Life-Care Center Inc$90,00062%
Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota Inc$70,00041%
Hosanna Church$55,0004n/a
Natopiwo Partners$50,0002n/a
Luther College$45,50040%
St Marys Health Clinics$45,00031%
Duluth Rowing Club$35,000410%
Perspectives Inc$34,50030%
College of St Scholastica Inc$34,00020%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester$30,00020%
Sisters Rising Worldwide$25,00021%
Shepherds of Hope$22,0001n/a
Open Arms of Minnesota$20,00010%
Bethlehem Inn of Waseca$20,00044%
Benilde St Margarets High School$20,0002n/a
Operation Bootstrap-Africa$20,0001n/a
Milkweed Editions Inc$20,00010%
Womens Care Center$15,000214%
Great River Shakespeare Festival$15,00012%
Bluffview Montessori School$15,00010%
The Philomena House Corp$15,00019%
Handmaids of the Heart of Jesus$10,0001n/a
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis$10,00010%
Upton Program$10,0001n/a
Carmel of the Blessed Virgin Mary$10,0001n/a
American Diabetes Association$10,00020%
Dwelling Place$10,0001n/a
Colegio San Jose Marianist Corp$9,0001n/a
St James Coffee$7,00014%
Second Harvest Heartland$7,00010%
Mighty Is Her Call Inc$6,00013%
One of US Inc$5,0002n/a
Hospitality Houses for Divine Mercy$5,0001n/a
Feed My Starving Children Inc$5,00010%
River Falls Pregnancy Helpline$5,00011%
Impact Center$5,0001n/a
Winona Family YMCA Inc$5,00010%
Seeds of Wisdom in South Sudan$5,0001n/a
Winona Volunteer Services Inc$5,00010%
Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix$5,00010%
Damiano of Duluth Inc$2,50010%
Guiding Star Wakota$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rukavina Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTogether for Good: $100,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetUniversity Life-Care Center Inc: $90,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetEpilepsy Foundation of Minnesota Inc: $70,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLuther College: $45,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Marys Health Clinics: $45,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDuluth Rowing Club: $35,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetPerspectives Inc: $34,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCollege of St Scholastica Inc: $34,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSisters Rising Worldwide: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOpen Arms of Minnesota: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBethlehem Inn of Waseca: $20,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetMilkweed Editions Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWomens Care Center: $15,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetGreat River Shakespeare Festival: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBluffview Montessori School: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Philomena House Corp: $15,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt James Coffee: $7,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSecond Harvest Heartland: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMighty Is Her Call Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRiver Falls Pregnancy Helpline: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWinona Family YMCA Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWinona Volunteer Services Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDiocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDamiano of Duluth Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGuiding Star Wakota: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Catholic Community Foundation of MinnesotaMN25× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Winona Community Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Gostomski Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Communitygiving · United Way Worldwide · Elizabeth Callender King Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Rukavina Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Rukavina Family Foundation

How much does Rukavina Family Foundation give?
Rukavina Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $251,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Rukavina Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Health (20%), Religion (18%).
Who are Rukavina Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Together for Good ($100k), University Life-Care Center Inc ($90k), Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota Inc ($70k).
Does Rukavina Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rukavina Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rukavina Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota, Otto Bremer Trust, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
Where is Rukavina Family Foundation based?
Rukavina Family Foundation is based in MN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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