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Massachusetts · Public charity

Ruth a Elmore Trust Fund

Direct Support of Pen Bay Medical Center, Pine Tree Society, 2 Shriners Hospitals, N.E. Anti-Vivisection Society, and 6 First Church of Christ, Scientist Churches to be used for general purposes in accordance with declaration of trust dated 2/2/53

$394k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$35,832
Largest grant, FY2024
$35,832
Organizations funded a year
11 to 11
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$12M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Ruth a Elmore Trust Fund 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.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY2024still arriving11$394k0%
FY202311$261k0%
FY202211$312k0%
FY202111$245k0%
FY202011$366kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$861kHealth$431kAnimals$144kEducation$144k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
First Church of Christ Scientist$143,5075n/a
Shriners Hospitals for Children$143,50550%
First Church of Christ Scientist$143,5055n/a
First Church of Christ Scientist$143,5055n/a
New England Anti-Vivisection Society$143,50553%
First Church of Christ Scientist$143,5045n/a
Quarry Hill$143,50450%
Pine Tree Society Inc$143,50450%
First Church of Christ Scientist$143,5045n/a
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$143,50450%
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All grantees of Ruth a Elmore Trust Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
First Church of Christ Scientist$143,5075n/a
Shriners Hospitals for Children$143,50550%
First Church of Christ Scientist$143,5055n/a
First Church of Christ Scientist$143,5055n/a
New England Anti-Vivisection Society$143,50553%
First Church of Christ Scientist$143,5045n/a
Quarry Hill$143,50450%
Pine Tree Society Inc$143,50450%
First Church of Christ Scientist$143,5045n/a
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$143,50450%
First Church of Christ Scientist$143,4945n/a

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About Ruth a Elmore Trust Fund

How much does Ruth a Elmore Trust Fund give?
Ruth a Elmore Trust Fund reported 11 grants totaling $394,146 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Ruth a Elmore Trust Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (55%), Health (27%), Animals (9%).
Who are Ruth a Elmore Trust Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: First Church of Christ Scientist ($144k), Shriners Hospitals for Children ($144k), First Church of Christ Scientist ($144k).
Does Ruth a Elmore Trust Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Ruth a Elmore Trust Fund based?
Ruth a Elmore Trust Fund is based in MA.

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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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