How much did RUTH ASAWA FUND grant in FY2023?

RUTH ASAWA FUND reported 3 grants totaling $63,610 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is RUTH ASAWA FUND based?

RUTH ASAWA FUND is based in CA.

RUTH ASAWA FUND

Foundation Dossiers

· Public charity

RUTH ASAWA FUND

Mission statement: to support education in the performing and visual arts in non-profit private and public elementary and secondary schools.

$64k

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$20k

Largest

01What you fund

0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.

Environment$115kArts & Culture$60kHuman Services$12kRecreation & Sports$5kEducation$1kOther$28k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

visuals san

2020

visuals san

2021

visuals san

2022

—

2023

visuals san

2025

educational programming

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k2 grants · $35k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$796k

Total assets

Largest grants

FRIENDS OF SCRAP INC$20,000
CHINESE CULTURE FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO$15,000
STAVANGER MUSEUM$8,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of RUTH ASAWA FUND’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 60% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 73% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

RUTH ASAWA FUNDlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$152k · 6 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$152k

$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%

+89%

Still filing today

100%

80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

FO
FRIENDS OF SCRAP INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $115k · revenue +143%
YOUTH ARTS EXCHANGE TIDE CENTER
2× · 2019–2021 · $10k · revenue +74%
SF
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA THEATER GROUP
2× · 2018–2019 · $6k · revenue +1790%

Funded once

AS
ART SMARTgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +798%
YB
YERBA BUENA CENTER RAPID RELIEF FUND
one grant, 2021 · $5k
AE
ALVARADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTAgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +63%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Inspire diverse audiences through exhibitions, education, publications & collections.

Arts & Culture

Theatre Bay Area

Theatre Bay Areas mission is to unite, strengthen, promote and advance the theatre community in the San Francisco Bay Area, working on behalf of the conviction that the performing arts are an essential public good, critical to a healthy…

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

The conservatory offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate musical education.

Education

Marin Theatre Company

Marin theatre company produces world-class theatre for the county of marin and bay area communities. mtc strives to set a national standard for intimate theatre experiences of the highest quality, featuring provocative plays by passionate…

Arts & Culture

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Developing and operating a major performing arts center presenting the finest in performing arts.

Arts & Culture

Redwood City Art Center

Arts & Culture

Contemporary Arts Center

To provide public access to contemporary art. The Contemporary Arts Center is a multi-disciplinary arts center that is dedicated to the presentation, production, and promotion of the arts of our time.

Arts & Culture

The Contemporary Arts Center

The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Ballet Association

Sf ballet's mission is to share our joy of dance with the widest possible audience. (see sch. o) sf ballet aims to reach audiences both locally and around the world, and to provide the highest caliber of dance training in our school. we…

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Opera Association

The world-renowned san francisco opera is considered one of the most important operatic organizations in the united states. great singing, outstanding conducting and productions sensitive to the music are core values of the opera. the…

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Classical Voice

SFCV's mission is to engage audiences, artists, and arts organizations, and forge meaningful connections through music journalism.

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Conservatory Theatre Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the grantee network

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/17

Grantees still filing

14/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Environment$115,000Arts & Culture$59,588Other$27,700Human Services$12,448Recreation & Sports$5,000Education$1,150

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The San Francisco FoundationCA22.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San · Marin Community Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Koret Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation RUTH ASAWA FUND funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: JAMES LICK MIDDLE SCHOOL PTSA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 943312467 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on JAMES LICK MIDDLE SCHOOL PTSA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Ruth Asawa Fund?

Find your warmest path to Ruth Asawa Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

RUTH ASAWA FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ruth Asawa Fund?

More from the funding graph

RUTH ASAWA FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ruth Asawa Fund?

More from the funding graph