· Private foundation
Ruxer Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
91% of Ruxer Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Dubois County Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Ruxer Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $117k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2023
- Under $10k25 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOSEPH'S CHURCH | $13,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ST MEINRAD SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN SADDLEBRED MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| SISTERS OF ST BENEDICT | $7,000 |
| DUBOIS COUNTY HUMANE SOCEITY | $5,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S CHURCH | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| STRIDES TO SUCCESS INC | $3,500 |
| VU JASPER FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| WNIN | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
38 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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
- DCDUBOIS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY5× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +72%
STRIDES TO SUCCESS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +14%- ICINDIANAPOLIS CHARITY HORSE SHOW IN4× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue ×1,149
Funded once
- COCITY OF JASPER FIRE DEPTone grant, 2018 · $1k
- PEPURDUE EXTENSION VANDERBUGH COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $1k
Indiana University Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +30%
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.
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Since 1831, the indiana historical society has been indiana's storyteller, connecting people to the past by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating the state's history. a nonprofit membership organization, the ihs also…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To promote conventions and tourism in Dubois County, Indiana
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
An agribusiness network advocate, representing members' interests within all levels of government and keeping members informed of the latest industry trends and news.
To collect and preserve local history and items related thereto, and to provide education to the general public.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 48 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 DUBOIS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUBOIS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds STRIDES TO SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA BASEBALL HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS CHARITY HORSE SHOW IN ↗
- Who funds TRUE INNOCENTS EQUINE RESCUE (TIER) ↗
- Who funds GATHER NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds DUBOIS COUNTY 4-H COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF SOUTHERN HILLS INC ↗
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: Dubois County Community Foundation · Thomas W Seger and Cynthia J Seger Family Foundation Inc · Sanda Hills Equine Center Inc · Ken Krempp Foundation · The Kimball International - Habig Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Ruxer 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.
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.