· Private foundation
Ruth and August Bohn Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k6 grants · $102k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Monadnock Humane Society | $50,000 |
| Humane Society of Elmore County | $50,000 |
| Frontline COVID19 Critical Care Alliance | $25,000 |
| University of Wisconsin | $23,600 |
| Grassroots Health Foundation | $13,600 |
| Harris Center for Conservation Education | $13,600 |
| Kroka Expeditions | $13,246 |
| Monarch Joint Venture | $12,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MHMONADNOCK HUMANE SOCIETY INC4× · 2020–2023 · $80k · revenue +15%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF ELMORE COUNTY INC2× · 2022–2023 · $70k · revenue -10%
- IMINDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE2× · 2022–2023 · $45k · revenue -45%
Funded once
- NFNH Forest Societyone grant, 2020 · $850
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ruth and August Bohn Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruth and August Bohn Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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