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Ruth Lepson Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$668
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$668
Largest grant, FY2022
$668
Organizations funded a year
1 to 15
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Ruth Lepson Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesInternationalArts & CultureCivil Rights
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
FY20221$6680%
FY20215$4k20%
FY20206$9k17%
FY20194$40%
FY20184$4k50%
FY201715$37kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

International$32kAnimals$13kFood & Nutrition$6kArts & Culture$921Civil Rights$726Education$442Housing & Shelter$150

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
DC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($901), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ruth Lepson Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOxfam-America Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHimalayan Cataract Project Inc: $8,550 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMercy for Animals Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the World Food Program Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,668 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $501 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGloucester Writers Center Inc: $220 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEdvestors Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $150 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 14.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Lepson Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Ruth Lepson Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Ruth Lepson Charitable Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $668 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Ruth Lepson Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are International (60%), Animals (25%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
Who are Ruth Lepson Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Oxfam-America Inc ($9k), Himalayan Cataract Project Inc ($9k), Acacia in Kenya ($8k).
Does Ruth Lepson Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ruth Lepson Charitable 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 Lepson Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Ruth Lepson Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Ruth Lepson Charitable Foundation Inc 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 20 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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