How much did RUTTENBERG ARTS FOUNDATION grant in FY2022?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of RUTTENBERG ARTS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2022 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

$10k–50k10 grants · $195k
$50k–250k4 grants · $394k
$250k+2 grants · $1.0M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

ART INSTITUE OF CHICAGO$505,486
FAMILY FOCUS$500,000
CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL$125,000
FRIEDMAN PLACE$100,000
LINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY$100,000
JEWISH UNITED FUND$69,000
YOUTH FOR A BETTER FUTURE$25,000
IL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$25,000
PROJECT EDUCATION PLUS$25,000
BLOCK MUSEUM OF ART$25,000
COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION$20,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$20,000
RENAISSANCE SOCIETY AT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$20,000
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM$15,000
BUILD INC GRANT$10,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $500k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

14%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$680k · 7 repeat orgs$4.4M to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$680k

$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%

+44%

Still filing today

86%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

EA
ELMHURST ART MUSEUM
2× · 2020–2021 · $67k · revenue +8%
CC
CHICAGO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
2× · 2020–2021 · $45k · revenue +12%
MA
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM
2× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +8%

Funded once

NM
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
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ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
one grant, 2020 · $845k · revenue +4%
HYDE PARK ART CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +44%

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.

Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education

Chicago Historical Society

Serve as the primary destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement to connect people to Chicago's history and each other.

Arts & Culture

Design Museum of Chicago

The Design Museum of Chicago strives to inspire, educate and innovate through design. As a resource for the Chicago design community and beyond, the museum facilitates an open dialogue about contemporary and historical design through…

Arts & Culture

True Chicago

Arts & Culture

Chicago Zoological Society

To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.

Animals

Chicago Public Art Group

Chicago public art group brings artists and communities together to produce high-quality public art, extending and transforming the tradition of collaborative, community-involved public artwork.

Arts & Culture

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

To create vivid, entertaining theatrical experiences that invigorate and engage people of all ages and identities by illuminating the complexity, ambiguity, and wonder of our world.

Arts & Culture

The Arts Club of Chicago

The arts club of chicago was formed as a means to encourage, foster, and develop higher standards of arts craftsmanship, and to maintain the city of chicago facility for the housing of galleries and exhibitions.

Arts & Culture

ChiArts Foundation

Support and promotion of arts education programs at chicago high school for the arts

Education

The Chicago High School for the Arts

The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…

Education

Collectors Club of Chicago

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hyde Park Art Center and the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/18

Grantees still filing

11/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,239,486Education$898,700Arts & Culture$896,250Human Services$500,000Philanthropy$320,000Recreation & Sports$150,000Youth Development$25,000Health$1,650

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.

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL18.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · The Ruttenbergkagan Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Kovler Family Foundation · The Pritzker Pucker Family · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · John D and Catherine T Macarthur · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · The Bank of America Charitable 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 organisation RUTTENBERG ARTS 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 364310834 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 17% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Ruttenberg Arts Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ruttenberg Arts Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

RUTTENBERG ARTS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ruttenberg Arts Foundation?

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RUTTENBERG ARTS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ruttenberg Arts Foundation?

More from the funding graph