Colorado · Private foundation
Ruth a Carver Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $320k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2024
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $86,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 42
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Ruth a Carver Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k 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 | 37 | $320k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $271k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $268k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $211k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $184k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aspen Center for Environmental Studies | $102,800 | 5 | 1% |
| Aspen Santa Fe Ballet | $73,600 | 4 | 1% |
| Cornell College | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Buddy Program Inc | $25,940 | 3 | 0% |
| Crested Butte Land Trust | $23,690 | 4 | 1% |
| Aspen Historical Society | $20,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Anderson Ranch Arts Center | $10,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Critter Crusaders of Cedar Rapids Inc | $8,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Green Our Planet | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Aspen Journalism | $6,750 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($856k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ruth a Carver Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Aspen Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Alpenglow Foundation · The Thrift Shop · Zanin Family Foundation · Arches Foundation · The Thendara Foundation · Fred and Elli Iselin Foundation · The Fullerton Family Charitable Fund · John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found · The Austin Memorial Foundation
How this is measured
About Ruth a Carver Foundation
- How much does Ruth a Carver Foundation give?
- Ruth a Carver Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $320,185 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Ruth a Carver Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Religion (18%), Education (17%).
- Who are Ruth a Carver Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Aspen Center for Environmental Studies ($103k), Aspen Santa Fe Ballet ($74k), Cornell College ($35k).
- Does Ruth a Carver Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ruth a Carver 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 Ruth a Carver Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aspen Community Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Aspen Business Center Foundation.
- Where is Ruth a Carver Foundation based?
- Ruth a Carver Foundation is based in CO.
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