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Ruth Reinhard Fletcher Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Ruth Reinhard Fletcher Charitable Foundation

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.

$221k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Human Services$373kPhilanthropy$101kCommunity Improvement$83kReligion$69kHealth$39kCivil Rights$20kEducation$10kArts & Culture$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$3,600
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JCC OF NORTH AMERICA$80,000
JEWISH SILICON VALLEY$40,000
HOPEWELL FUND$25,000
ISRAAID (US) GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC$25,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL BAY AREA$10,000
PASADENA JEWISH TEMPLE AND CENTER$10,000
JEWISH SILICON VALLEY$10,000
JEWISH SILICON VALLEY$5,000
SHALOM AUSTIN$3,600
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL ALSAC$2,500
THE SUMMIT LEAGUE$2,500
THE ROHR CHABAD AT UCI$1,800
HILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC$1,500
JEWISH GW$1,030
YAVNEH DAY SCHOOL$1,030
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $374k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION: $50k → 11%BOULDER JCC: $5k → 12%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION: $75k → 17%JEWISH SILICON VALLEY: $100k → 8%JEWISH SILICON VALLEY: $75k → 8%JEWISH SILICON VALLEY: $40k → 8%JEWISH SILICON VALLEY: $10k → 8%JEWISH SILICON VALLEY: $10k → 8%JEWISH SILICON VALLEY: $5k → 8%JEWISH SILICON VALLEY: $4k → 8%JEWISH SILICON VALLEY: $371 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
TN
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 31% of Ruth Reinhard Fletcher Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Ruth Reinhard Fletcher Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$292k · 7 repeat orgs$317k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
17

Total granted

$292k
$261k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+9%

Still filing today

86%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthCivil RightsOther
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

  • OF
    OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    2× · 2022–2024 · $24k · revenue +19%
  • ZM
    ZIONESS MOVEMENT INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +63%
  • HO
    HILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -6%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -28%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +8%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
2
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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3
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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4
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
5
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School

Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…

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6
Hillel Jewish University Center

To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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7
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
8
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
9
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
10
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services
11
University of Judaism Foundation
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12
Jewish Association for Community Living Inc

The jewish association for community living responds to the needs of persons with developmental disabilities and their families in our community by providing quality support and services enhanced by jewish tradition.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oshman Family Jewish Community Center; the most unlike its peers is J Leaders. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH SILICON VALLEY: $244,371 · Human ServicesJEWISH SILICON VALLEYJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $75,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH…JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $50,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesJCC OF NORTH AMERICA: $182,000 · OtherJCC OF NORTH AMERICASTAND UP TO CANCER A DIVISION OF ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $36,000 · OtherSTAND UP TO CANCER A DIVISION OF ENTERTAIN…ALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC: $30,000 · OtherALL STARS HELPING KIDS INCOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $23,500 · OtherOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERHILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC: $16,500 · Other+16 more: $64,030 · Other+16 moreHOPEWELL FUND: $75,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUNDUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH AP…JEWISHColorado: $5,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $4,475 · PhilanthropyISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterZIONESS MOVEMENT INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsJEWBELONG INC: $15,000 · ReligionCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationYavneh Day School: $1,030 · EducationHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $1,000 · Education
Human Services$374,371Other$352,030Philanthropy$134,475Public Safety & Disaster$25,000Civil Rights$20,000Religion$15,000Education$12,030

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH SILICON VALLEY: $244,371 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $23,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetZIONESS MOVEMENT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC: $16,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetJEWBELONG INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SUMMIT LEAGUE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISHColorado: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ LEADERS: $3,600 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOakland Genesis DBA Oakland Genesis Soccer Club: $1,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJewish Women International: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYavneh Day School: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $875 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Jewish Community Fede…Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Silicon ValleyThe Harold Grinspoon …Morgan Stanley Global…Arcadia FoundationJewish Community Cent…Foundation for Jewish…Koret FoundationCombined Jewish Phila…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA23× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Silicon Valley · The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Arcadia Foundation · Jewish Community Centers Association of North America · Foundation for Jewish Camp Inc · Koret Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment 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 Reinhard Fletcher Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruth Reinhard Fletcher Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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