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Ruthanne Koffman Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YWCA BINGHAMTON AND BROOME COUNTY | $30,000 |
| TRI CITIES OPERA | $25,000 |
| WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUP | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $5,000 |
| MALAWI CHILDREN'S MISSION | $3,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FOFOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC6× · 2017–2022 · $258k · revenue +120%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S MISSION DBA MALAWI CHILDREN'S MISSION6× · 2017–2024 · $54k · revenue +135%
- BCBroome County Urban League Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $26k · revenue +29%
Funded once
SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +19%- UWUNITED WAY OF BROOME COUNTY INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -8%
ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +12%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Lead agency in the community for providers of homeless/prevention services in manatee/sarasota. responsible to plan strategies with community partners, assist with grants, educate the public, advocate with local leadership, administer the…
Sarasota Opera produces impassioned opera performances true to the vision of the composer, to entertain, enrich, educate, and inspire a life-long love of opera in our diverse and growing communities.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
To coordinate efforts of volunteers to serve food to those in need and to educate the public about the needs of the poor and hungry in the city of syracuse.
To be the leading provider of behavioral and physical healthcare through compassionate and quality services in our community.
To promote a thriving arts community, essential to the quality of life in broome county ny and advance the awareness and value of the arts through advocacy, fundraising, grant making, services, and programs.
Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.
The purpose of family services is to assist individuals, families and the community in meeting the complexities of daily living by fostering the ability to develop and maintain positive relationships and promote healthy, independent…
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
The mission of the Binghamton Philharmonic is building community through the power of live music.
The organization is a non-profit organization and is committed to providing accessible comprehensive high quality primary and preventive care services to all persons with dignity and respect. our focus is on preventive care and health…
Charitable or educational purposes related to services for persons experiencing homelessness and persons at risk of homelessness in the service area. in pursuance of the foregoing purposes, vfcch shall facilitate and coordinate the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Broome County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Children's Mission Dba Malawi Children's Mission. 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 44 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
18 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. 18 of the 49 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MISSION DBA MALAWI CHILDREN'S MISSION ↗
- Who funds Broome County Urban League Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BROOME COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Broome County Council of Churches ↗
- Who funds Children First Inc ↗
- Who funds VISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BROOME COUNTY COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LOURDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC ↗
- Who funds Tennis Charities of Binghamton Inc co Howard Rittberg LG&T ↗
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.
Open a dossier: George a and Margaret Mee Charitable Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · Jacob & Rose Olum Foundation · The Victor& Esther Rozen Foundation Inc · The Stewart W & Willma C Hoyt Foundation Inc · Miller S & Adelaide S Gaffney Fdn · The Tsb Foundation Inc · The Bel-Eve Family Fund · WWJD FOUNDATION CO Piaker & Lyons PC · Security Mutual Life Foundation · The Harvey & Elizabeth Prior Shriber Charitable Foundation Trust · 8187770 the Eggleston Foundation Co Levene Gouldin & Thompson LLP
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 Ruthanne Koffman Charitable Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
- Child Protection Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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