Wisconsin · Private foundation
Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 63
- Grants FY2025
- 102
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $32,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $411,343
- Organizations funded a year
- 69 to 102
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $145M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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 | 57 | $3.6M | 44% |
| FY2024 | 102 | $4.8M | 34% |
| FY2023 | 98 | $3.8M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 92 | $4.3M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 89 | $3.9M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 69 | $3.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore First Robotics Inc | $945,000 | 6 | 88% |
| Wisconsin Maritime Museum Inc | $861,343 | 6 | 14% |
| Manitowoc County Historical Society Inc | $791,100 | 6 | 39% |
| Rahr-West Art Museum Charitable Foundation Inc | $789,385 | 5 | 66% |
| Lakeshore Technical College Foundation Inc | $775,000 | 5 | 19% |
| Core Treatment Services Inc | $727,500 | 5 | 22% |
| Grow It Forward Inc | $571,384 | 6 | 40% |
| Painting Pathways Clubhouse Inc | $535,000 | 6 | 47% |
| Treehouse Theater Inc | $521,369 | 6 | 70% |
| Ascend Services Inc | $510,135 | 6 | 4% |
Show all 116 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 123 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 26 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 99 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: Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Jane & Arthur Stangel Fund Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Harold C Kallies Charitable Trust 32f003019 · Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Sheboygan County Inc · Nash Family Foundation · Kohler Foundation Inc · Wm Collins Kohler Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc
- How much does Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc give?
- Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc reported 63 grants totaling $3,586,885 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 69 and 102 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Education (20%), Health (15%).
- Who are Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Lakeshore First Robotics Inc ($945k), Wisconsin Maritime Museum Inc ($861k), Manitowoc County Historical Society Inc ($791k).
- Does Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation, Jane & Arthur Stangel Fund Inc.
- Where is Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc based?
- Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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