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Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
63
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$411k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0166% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$3.5MHealth$3.2MArts & Culture$3.2MHuman Services$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.1MFood & Nutrition$721kEnvironment$683kAnimals$658kHousing & Shelter$390kOther$8.6M
02FY2025 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $682k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $711k
$32,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$145M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WISCONSIN MARITIME MUSEUM INC$411,343
THE HAVEN OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC$300,000
MANITOWOC PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC$200,000
LAKESHORE FIRST ROBOTICS PROGRAM$150,000
GROW IT FORWARD INC$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION (FOODWISE)$150,000
LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC$125,000
BELLIN COLLEGE$120,000
MANITOWOC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$110,000
CITY OF MANITOWOC ON BEHALF OF THE FRIENDS OF THE MANITOWOC SKATEPARK$100,000
CITY OF TWO RIVERS ON BEHALF OF THE TWO RIVERS PARKS & REC DEPT$100,000
SHADY LANE HOME INC$100,000
EARL O VITS MEMORIAL TRUST DBA CAMP SINAWA$100,000
ASCEND SERVICES INC$100,000
CITY OF TWO RIVERS ON BEHALF OF THE TWO RIVERS FIRE DEPARTMENT$100,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LAKESHORE REGIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $25k → 6%OCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%LAKESHORE REGIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $50k → 9%LAKESHORE REGIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $100k → 11%DILLON MUELLER MEMORIAL FUND: $3k → 11%SHADY LANE HOME INC: $100k → 11%LAKESHORE INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY OF MANITOWOC COUNTY: $80k → 11%HOPE HOUSE OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC: $75k → 11%LAKESHORE INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK HOPE HOUSE: $75k → 11%HOPE HOUSE OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC: $50k → 11%HOPE HOUSE OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC: $50k → 11%MANITOWOC-TWO RIVERS YMCA INC: $45k → 11%MANITOWOC-TWO RIVERS YMCA: $35k → 11%MANITOWOC-TWO RIVERS YMCA: $30k → 11%MANITOWOC-TWO RIVERS YMCA INC: $25k → 11%MANITOWOC-TWO RIVERS YMCA INC: $25k → 11%MANITOWOC-TWO RIVERS YMCA INC: $20k → 11%HOPE HOUSE OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC: $20k → 11%MANITOWOC-TWO RIVERS YMCA: $20k → 11%LAKESHORE FOSTER FAMILIES AND FRIENDS: $20k → 11%MANITOWOC-TWO RIVERS YMCA: $15k → 11%MANITOWOC-TWO RIVERS YMCA INC: $15k → 11%MANITOWOC-TWO RIVERS YMCA: $15k → 11%THE PARKBENCH INC: $11k → 11%SHADY LANE HOME INC: $11k → 11%MANITOWOC-TWO RIVERS YMCA: $10k → 11%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL - MANITOWOC: $10k → 11%HOPE HOUSE OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC: $10k → 11%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL MANITOWOC: $10k → 11%MANITOWOC-TWO RIVERS YMCA: $10k → 11%LAKESHORE FOSTER FAMILIES AND FRIENDS: $10k → 11%LAKESHORE INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK HOPE HOUSE: $10k → 11%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL - MANITOWOC: $10k → 11%MANITOWOC-TWO RIVERS YMCA: $10k → 11%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL - MANITOWOC: $10k → 11%LAKESHORE INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK HOPE HOUSE: $10k → 11%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL - MANITOWOC: $10k → 11%MANITOWOC-TWO RIVERS YMCA: $10k → 11%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL - MANITOWOC: $10k → 11%LAKESHORE FOSTER FAMILIES AND FRIENDS: $5k → 11%LAKESHORE INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY OF MANITOWOC COUNTY: $5k → 11%LAKESHORE FOSTER FAMILIES AND FRIENDS: $5k → 11%MANITOWOC-TWO RIVERS YMCA: $5k → 11%LAKESHORE FOSTER FAMILIES & FRIENDS: $5k → 11%LAKESHORE FOSTER FAMILIES AND FRIENDS: $3k → 11%LAKESHORE FOSTER FAMILIES AND FRIENDS: $3k → 11%LAKESHORE FOSTER FAMILIES AND FRIENDS: $3k → 11%ST VINCENT DEPAUL - MANITOWOC: $20k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 116 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

116 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 84 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116
98

Total granted

$19M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+1%

Still filing today

65%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • LF
    LAKESHORE FIRST ROBOTICS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $945k · revenue +42% · 88% of their budget
  • WISCONSIN MARITIME MUSEUM INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $861k · revenue +74%
  • MC
    MANITOWOC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $791k · revenue +17% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC ON BEHLF OF BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB MANITOWO
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • CO
    CITY OF TWO RIVERS
    one grant, 2021 · $300k
  • LC
    LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY RECOVERY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $250k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Progress Lakeshore Inc

To assist local businesses in their growth in the manitowoc county area and to attract new businesses to the manitowoc county area.

Community Improvement
2
Waukesha County Land Conservancy Inc

To protect environmentally senstive land in waukesha county wisconsin

Environment
3
Wisconsin Association of Lakes Inc

The mission of the wisconsin association of lakes is to conserve, enhance, and restore wisconsin's 15,000 lakes to ensure their sustainability for the benefit and collective use and enjoyment for this and future generations.

Environment
4
Fund for Lake Michigan Inc

Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…

Environment
5
Manitowoc County Habitat for Humanity Inc

To create decent, affordable housing for those in need

—
6
The Chamber of Manitowoc County Inc

The chamber of manitowoc is a member-driven organization that provides resources and services to promote and maintain a strong business environment.

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7
Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum Inc

The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.

—
8
Landmark Conservancy Inc

Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.

Environment
9
Milwaukee County Historical Society Inc

The milwaukee county historical society was founded in 1935 to collect, preserve, and make available materials relating to the history of the milwaukee community.

Arts & Culture
10
University Foundation - Manitowoc Inc

To provide scholarships for students attending uw-manitowoc, as well as grants for faculty/staff development and campus promotion.

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11
Lake Superior Community Partnership Inc

To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.

—
12
Door County Land Trust Inc

The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hygeia Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%5%<5yr13%14%5–10yr22%18%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr16%15%35–55yr17%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%1%<5yr13%9%5–10yr22%25%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr17%30%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/118
the rest of the field
8%
415/5,092

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

109 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 109 of the 241 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

26
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/109
Grantees still filing
72/109
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC ON BEHLF OF BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB MANITOWO — $500,000 · OtherBELLIN COLLEGE INC — $480,000 · OtherCAPITOL CIVIC CENTRE INC — $436,000 · OtherLAKESHORE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $368,100 · OtherTHE HAVEN OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC — $390,000 · Other+132 more — $8,083,127 · Other+132 moreLAKESHORE FIRST ROBOTICS INC — $945,000 · EducationLAKESHORE FIRST …LAKESHORE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $775,000 · EducationLAKESHORE TECHNI…MANITOWOC PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $338,415 · EducationMANITOWOC PUBLIC…WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC — $300,000 · EducationWISCONSIN ASSOCI…LAKELAND UNIVERSITY — $207,000 · EducationLAKELAND UNIVERS…LESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $180,000 · EducationLAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN — $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $150,000 · Education+5 more — $267,500 · Education+5 moreWISCONSIN MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $861,343 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN MARIT…MANITOWOC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $791,100 · Arts & CultureMANITOWOC COUNT…TREEHOUSE THEATER INC — $521,369 · Arts & CultureTREEHOUSE THEAT…THE PRODUCTION FARM INC — $396,800 · Arts & CultureTHE PRODUCTION …ROGERS STREET FISHING VILLAGE INC — $205,000 · Arts & CultureROGERS STREET F…HAMILTON WOOD TYPE & PRINTING MUSEUM INC — $145,500 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $303,964 · Arts & Culture+9 moreCORE TREATMENT SERVICES INC — $727,500 · HealthCORE TREATMENT …PAINTING PATHWAYS CLUBHOUSE INC — $535,000 · HealthPAINTING PATHWA…ASCEND SERVICES INC — $510,135 · HealthASCEND SERVICES…DEMENTIA INNOVATIONS INC — $500,000 · HealthDEMENTIA INNOVA…LIGHTHOUSE RECOVERY COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $245,500 · HealthLIGHTHOUSE RECO…EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY — $154,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · Health+10 more — $400,242 · Health+10 moreHOPE HOUSE OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC — $384,500 · Human ServicesManitowoc-Two Rivers Area YMCA (7101) — $353,000 · Human ServicesTHE CROSSING OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC — $298,700 · Human ServicesLAKESHORE REGIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $175,000 · Human ServicesSHADY LANE INC — $110,750 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL MANITOWOC INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesLAKESHORE FOSTER FAMILIES AND FRIENDS INC — $52,500 · Human Services+1 more — $11,000 · Human ServicesRAHR-WEST ART MUSEUM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $789,385 · PhilanthropyNORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC — $125,000 · PhilanthropyLAKESHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $115,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $21,000 · PhilanthropyGROW IT FORWARD INC — $571,384 · Food & NutritionPETERS PANTRY INC — $70,000 · Food & NutritionTWO RIVERS ECUMENICAL PANTRY — $70,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$10,257,227Education$3,462,915Arts & Culture$3,225,076Health$3,222,877Human Services$1,465,450Philanthropy$1,050,385Food & Nutrition$721,384

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLAKESHORE FIRST ROBOTICS INC — $945,000 over 6y, 88% of budgetWISCONSIN MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $861,343 over 6y, 14% of budgetMANITOWOC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $791,100 over 6y, 39% of budgetRAHR-WEST ART MUSEUM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $789,385 over 5y, 66% of budgetLAKESHORE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $775,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetCORE TREATMENT SERVICES INC — $727,500 over 5y, 22% of budgetGROW IT FORWARD INC — $571,384 over 6y, 40% of budgetPAINTING PATHWAYS CLUBHOUSE INC — $535,000 over 6y, 47% of budgetTREEHOUSE THEATER INC — $521,369 over 6y, 70% of budgetASCEND SERVICES INC — $510,135 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetDEMENTIA INNOVATIONS INC — $500,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetBELLIN COLLEGE INC — $480,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCAPITOL CIVIC CENTRE INC — $436,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetTHE PRODUCTION FARM INC — $396,800 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetTHE HAVEN OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC — $390,000 over 6y, 65% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC — $384,500 over 6y, 26% of budgetLAKESHORE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $368,100 over 5y, 13% of budgetManitowoc-Two Rivers Area YMCA (7101) — $353,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetMANITOWOC PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $338,415 over 2y, 49% of budgetVAN DER BROHE ARBORETUM INC — $314,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetWISCONSIN ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC — $300,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CROSSING OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC — $298,700 over 3y, 22% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC — $285,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE RECOVERY COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $245,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetWOODLAND DUNES NATURE CENTER AND PRESERVE INC — $235,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetLAKELAND UNIVERSITY — $207,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROGERS STREET FISHING VILLAGE INC — $205,000 over 5y, 61% of budgetMANITOWOC PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WI SHORELINE INC — $190,090 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetLESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $180,000 over 3y, 56% of budgetLAKESHORE REGIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $175,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY — $154,500 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetMANITOWOC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC — $153,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetLAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON WOOD TYPE & PRINTING MUSEUM INC — $145,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetST MARY'S HOME FOR THE AGED INC — $135,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLAKESHORE CAP INC OF WISCONSIN — $128,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC — $125,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetMANITOWOC COUNTY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER INC — $124,180 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetLAKESHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $115,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSHADY LANE INC — $110,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMANITOWOC COUNTY YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC — $105,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetBOOKWORM GARDENS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetJOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTWO RIVERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $98,317 over 5y, 40% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Lakeshore Community F…Green Bay Packers Fou…Jane & Arthur Stangel…Wisconsin Public Serv…Harold C Kallies Char…Frank G & Frieda K Br…Community Foundation …Greater Green Bay Com…United Way of Sheboyg…Nash Family FoundationKohler Foundation IncWm Collins Kohler Fou…
Lakeshore Community Foundation IncWI81.7× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 241 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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