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Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc

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.

$184k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
32
Grants FY2024
28
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
28 to 49
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$3.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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 arriving31$179k23%
FY202328$184k14%
FY202228$176k4%
FY202141$211k15%
FY202039$204k10%
FY201946$202k7%
FY201849$213k18%
FY201746$225kn/a
85% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$346kHealth$293kArts & Culture$232kYouth Development$176kEnvironment$64kHousing & Shelter$60kPhilanthropy$54kEducation$48kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
For All Seasons Inc$80,00080%
Chesapeake Audubon Society$63,500810%
Channel Marker Inc$58,50080%
Positive Strides Inc$48,00086%
Partners in Care Maryland Inc$43,50080%
The Dixon House Inc$42,50081%
St Michaels Community Center Inc$40,00082%
Avalon Foundation Inc$30,00050%
Talbot County Arts Council Inc$29,00072%
Tred Avon Players Inc$28,000823%
Team Trace Inc$27,500123%
Talbot Mentorsinc$23,50085%
Talbot Community Connections Inc$20,000170%
Talbot Historical Society Inc$15,00032%
Talbot Hospice Foundation Inc$12,50050%
Habitat for Humanity Choptank Inc$12,50050%
Easton Rotary Club Youth and Community Fund Inc$10,00019%
Oxford Community Center Inc$7,50031%
Changing My Stars Inc$5,0001n/a
Bay Hundred Community Volunteers Inc$5,0002n/a
Shore Legal Access Inc$5,00010%
Emory & Henry University$3,50010%
Team Peake Inc$3,0003n/a
Norwich University$2,50010%
Dickinson College$2,50010%
Foundation of Hope Inc$2,00010%
Freedom Rowers Inc$2,00014%
Liberty University Inc$1,25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($970k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFor All Seasons Inc: $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetChesapeake Audubon Society: $63,500 over 8y, 10% of budgetChannel Marker Inc: $58,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPositive Strides Inc: $48,000 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetPartners in Care Maryland Inc: $43,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe Dixon House Inc: $42,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSt Michaels Community Center Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetAvalon Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTalbot County Arts Council Inc: $29,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetTred Avon Players Inc: $28,000 over 8y, 23% of budgetTeam Trace Inc: $27,500 over 1y, 23% of budgetTalbot Mentorsinc: $23,500 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetTalbot Community Connections Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetTalbot Historical Society Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTalbot Hospice Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Choptank Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEaston Rotary Club Youth and Community Fund Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetOxford Community Center Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetShore Legal Access Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEmory & Henry University: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorwich University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDickinson College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation of Hope Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFreedom Rowers Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetLiberty University Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 25.

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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.

Mid Shore Community Foundation IncMD46.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · The Llandaff Family Trust · Dock Street Foundation · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc · Richard J and Ellen G Bodorff Charitable Foundation Inc · The Michael and Nancy Klein Foundation Inc · T & M Mitchell Fdn Dima-Blrk · The Rosenfeld Rumford Steckler Family Foundation Inc · Qlarant Foundation Inc · Van Strum Foundation 8833023

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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About Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc

How much does Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc give?
Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc reported 32 grants totaling $184,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 49 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Health (18%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: For All Seasons Inc ($80k), Chesapeake Audubon Society ($64k), Channel Marker Inc ($59k).
Does Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc 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 and Robert St John Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc, The Llandaff Family Trust, Dock Street Foundation.
Where is Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc based?
Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 81 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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