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The Derald H Ruttenberg Foundation at a glance

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The Derald H Ruttenberg Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.6M
Granted FY2026still arriving
95
Grants FY2026still arriving
15
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2026.

Education$1.6MAnimals$824kArts & Culture$643kHealth$627kEnvironment$420kPhilanthropy$231kSocial Science$114kReligion$76kOther$0
02FY2026 · 95 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k43 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $821k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $354k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$10,300
Median grant
15
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 96% of reported assets are held in Asml Holdings.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROWN UNIVERSITY$1,004,187
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY (WCS)$319,570
ASPEN INSTITUTE$101,376
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$101,376
MOUNT SINAI ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$50,486
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$50,289
HOPEWELL FUND$50,165
JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE (THE)$35,028
ZIGGY'S REFUGE FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY$27,468
WILD TOMORROW FUND (WTF)$25,799
JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE (THE)$25,750
CLAL-NAT'L JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING & LEADERSHIP$25,597
STUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK$25,597
Individual grant recipient$25,544
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS$25,503
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–26, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BETWEEN FRIENDS OUTREACH: $3k → 6%Tabor Childrens Services Inc: $10k → 22%LITTLE FLOWER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES OF NEW YORK: $320 → 7%TORY BURCH FOUNDATION: $30k → 17%SALEM PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $3k → 15%TORY BURCH FOUNDATION: $21k → 17%HeartShare St Vincents Services: $100 → 20%MANHASSET AFTER SCHOOL EXPERIENCE INC: $290 → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $150 → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $107 → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $55 → 6%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $11k → 17%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $55 → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
NM
TN
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 40 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2026, 9 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
74

Total granted

$2.4M
$702k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+7%

Still filing today

70%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $366k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2026 · $81k · revenue +29%
  • Cornell University
    2× · 2022–2026 · $71k · revenue +15%
  • FH
    FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC
    3× · 2023–2026 · $51k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $167k
  • HF
    HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY
    one grant, 2025 · $101k
  • TB
    THE BROOKLYN RAIL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership to End Addiction; the most unlike its peers is Artyard (Formerly Sprocket Arts). 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

113 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 113 of the 155 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/113
Grantees still filing
71/113
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASOSIACION CONSERVACION OSA (FRIENDS OF THE OSA): $360,335 · OtherASOSIACION CONSERVACION OSA (FRIENDS OF THE …Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine: $278,158 · OtherMount Sinai Icahn School of MedicineYALE UNIVERSITY: $167,409 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYNYU Langone Medical Center: $108,130 · OtherNYU Langone Medical CenterHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $100,735 · OtherWILD TOMORROW FUND (WTF): $81,772 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $76,017 · Other+95 more: $752,545 · Other+95 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,104,611 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYWildlife Conservation Society: $464,985 · AnimalsWildlife Conse…ARTHURS ACRES ANIMAL SANCTUARY CORPORATION: $46,697 · AnimalsARTHURS ACRES …13 HANDS EQUINE RESCUE INC: $36,221 · Animals13 HANDS EQUIN…THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $25,614 · Animals+9 more: $60,223 · Animals+9 morePROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN IN THE ARTS INC: $200,000 · Arts & CulturePROFESSIONAL…THE BROOKLYN RAIL INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN…FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $51,182 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTO…WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $36,265 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSE…NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $36,197 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHA…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $30,773 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN…ASPEN ART MUSEUM: $25,398 · Arts & CulturePRINCETON BALLET SOCIETY: $23,399 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INC: $20,314 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $15,710 · Arts & CultureTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $200,592 · EducationCornell University: $71,246 · EducationPREP FOR PREP: $41,767 · Education+11 more: $39,806 · EducationROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $80,878 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND: $50,165 · PhilanthropySTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC: $40,684 · PhilanthropyPenn Engineering Charitable Foundation: $20,000 · PhilanthropyARTYARD (FORMERLY SPROCKET ARTS): $10,399 · Philanthropy+5 more: $9,247 · PhilanthropyTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $114,376 · Social Science
Other$1,925,101Community Improvement$1,104,611Animals$633,740Arts & Culture$539,238Education$353,411Philanthropy$211,373Social Science$114,376

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,104,611 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $464,985 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $200,592 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN IN THE ARTS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 85% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $114,376 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $80,878 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $71,246 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $51,182 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARTHURS ACRES ANIMAL SANCTUARY CORPORATION: $46,697 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $41,767 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC: $40,684 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $36,265 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $36,197 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $30,773 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $25,614 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN GLOBAL CANCER INITIATIVE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetPRINCETON BALLET SOCIETY: $23,399 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetANIMAL HAVEN INC: $21,110 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $20,314 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Feathered & Furry Wildlife Center I: $20,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetCAMP KINDERLAND INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $10,708 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTYARD (FORMERLY SPROCKET ARTS): $10,399 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNANTUCKET TIPPING POINT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPERFECT EARTH PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Mercy Medical Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTabor Children's Services Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROADWAY MALL ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBAIS YAAKOV GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL OF MINNEAPOLIS: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN UNITED FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL DEFENSE PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTINICUM CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE OSA: $4,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOREYS PROMISE: $2,518 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAFRICAN DIASPORA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalem Pregnancy Support Center Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Art Students League Of New York Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA HAR TORAH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,960 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,395 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMisfits of Oz farm sanctuary: $1,200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYESHIVA OF CENTRAL QUEENS: $1,036 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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 Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundCarol and Gene Ludwig…American Express Foun…Mutual of America Fou…Amg Charitable Gift F…Select Equity Group F…The New York Communit…Verizon FoundationCommunity Foundation …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY19.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Carol and Gene Ludwig Family Foundation · American Express Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Select Equity Group Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Verizon Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Derald H Ruttenberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Derald H Ruttenberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 155 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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