How much does Ruth Gutekunst Trust give?

Ruth Gutekunst Trust reported 7 grants totaling $85,256 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Ruth Gutekunst Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (78%), Recreation & Sports (18%), Housing & Shelter (4%).

Who are Ruth Gutekunst Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Chautauqua County Humane Society Inc ($112k), Erie County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($112k), Best Friends Animal Society ($112k).

Does Ruth Gutekunst Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Ruth Gutekunst Trust 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 Gutekunst Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, Network for Good, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.

Where is Ruth Gutekunst Trust based?

Ruth Gutekunst Trust is based in NJ.

Ruth Gutekunst Trust

Ruth Gutekunst Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Ruth Gutekunst Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$85k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Animals$489kRecreation & Sports$112kHousing & Shelter$23k

02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $9k
$10k–50k5 grants · $77k

$15,346

Median grant

States reached

$1.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ERIE COUNTY SPCA	$15,346
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY	$15,346
CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY	$15,346
HUMANE SOCIETY OF GENESEE COUNTY	$15,346
DAWGS	$15,346
HEART ANIMAL RESCUE AND ADOPTION TEAM	$4,263
2ND CHANCE SHELTERING NETWORK	$4,263

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

How this is measured

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

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$625k · 8 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$625k

Still filing today

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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.

Backed again, and grew

CC
CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $112k · revenue +138%
EC
ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
8× · 2018–2025 · $112k · revenue +97%
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
8× · 2018–2025 · $112k · revenue +59%

Funded once

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.

04Its field

04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 8 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

6/6

Grantees still filing

5/6

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Animals$488,814Other$135,811

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.

Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ruth Gutekunst Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruth Gutekunst Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home