Arizona · Private foundation
Ruth McC Tankersley Charitable Fnd
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $950,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 66
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $28M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Ruth McC Tankersley Charitable Fnd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $238k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 36 | $4.7M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $4.7M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $4.7M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $4.6M | 23% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $4.1M | 40% |
| FY2020 | 66 | $4.1M | 58% |
| FY2019 | 56 | $4.3M | 52% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $4.3M | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc | $5,360,000 | 8 | 6% |
| World Resources Institute | $5,100,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Michael's Foundation Inc | $4,414,000 | 7 | 100% |
| The Gregory School | $1,710,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Heavenly Hoofs Inc | $1,202,500 | 8 | 36% |
| Rollins College | $1,150,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Elusen Inc | $832,000 | 8 | 100% |
| Defenders of Wildlife | $695,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Nature Forward | $690,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Arizona Burn Foundation Inc | $385,000 | 5 | 8% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 145 recipients with no EIN on record ($14M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ruth McC Tankersley Charitable Fnd supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 54 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Duke Energy Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Sundt Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Ruth McC Tankersley Charitable Fnd with peer funders
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About Ruth McC Tankersley Charitable Fnd
- How much does Ruth McC Tankersley Charitable Fnd give?
- Ruth McC Tankersley Charitable Fnd reported 43 grants totaling $4,671,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 66 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ruth McC Tankersley Charitable Fnd fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (30%), Education (14%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Ruth McC Tankersley Charitable Fnd's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ($5.4M), World Resources Institute ($5.1M), Michael's Foundation Inc ($4.4M).
- Does Ruth McC Tankersley Charitable Fnd fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ruth McC Tankersley Charitable Fnd accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ruth McC Tankersley Charitable Fnd?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, Duke Energy Foundation, Arizona Community Foundation.
- Where is Ruth McC Tankersley Charitable Fnd based?
- Ruth McC Tankersley Charitable Fnd is based in AZ.
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