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Ruthmary S Westfall Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$123k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 15
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Ruthmary S Westfall Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$123k29%
FY20236$90k0%
FY202215$138k80%
FY20216$105kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$199kEducation$164kHuman Services$43kHealth$26kYouth Development$15kPhilanthropy$5kFood & Nutrition$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Ruthmary S Westfall Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music$80,00040%
Playwrights Horizons Inc$70,00030%
Cj Kids Inc$32,0003100%
Roundabout Theatre Company Inc$25,00010%
Resources for Children With Special Needs Inc$18,00020%
Extreme Kids and Crew Inc$15,00022%
Theater Breaking Through Barriers Corp$15,00031%
Giving Alternative Learners Uplifting Opportunities Inc$10,72521%
Advocates for Children of New York$5,00010%
Autism Community Theatre Inc$5,0001n/a
New York Theatre Workshop Inc$4,00010%
Ridgebury Riders Inc$2,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($174k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Ruthmary S Westfall Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music: $80,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPlaywrights Horizons Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCj Kids Inc: $32,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetRoundabout Theatre Company Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResources for Children With Special Needs Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetExtreme Kids and Crew Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTheater Breaking Through Barriers Corp: $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetGiving Alternative Learners Uplifting Opportunities Inc: $10,725 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAdvocates for Children of New York: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Theatre Workshop Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children · The New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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Find your warmest path to Ruthmary S Westfall Foundation 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.

About Ruthmary S Westfall Foundation

How much does Ruthmary S Westfall Foundation give?
Ruthmary S Westfall Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $123,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 15 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Ruthmary S Westfall Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (44%), Education (36%), Human Services (9%).
Who are Ruthmary S Westfall Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: The Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music ($80k), Playwrights Horizons Inc ($70k), Cj Kids Inc ($32k).
Does Ruthmary S Westfall Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ruthmary S Westfall Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ruthmary S Westfall Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children, The New York Community Trust.
Where is Ruthmary S Westfall Foundation based?
Ruthmary S Westfall Foundation is based in MI.

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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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