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The Fruth Family Foundation at a glance

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The Fruth Family 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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

80% of The Fruth Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 13 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Fruth Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’20
5
’21
5
’22
9
’23
13
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$2.9MPhilanthropy$2.7MHealth$1.3MCommunity Improvement$48kRecreation & Sports$44kHousing & Shelter$41kArts & Culture$17kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2023 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $111k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $425k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$11,385
Median grant
9
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND$1,000,000
THE DREXEL FUND$250,000
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM$225,000
MAYO CLINIC$200,000
CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA$25,000
GRASSROOTS BASEBALL$25,000
EDADVANCE$11,385
THE HEALDSBURG SCHOOL$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
ST JOHN'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL$10,000
UNITED WAY OF LEE COUNTY$10,000
ICON PREPARATORY SCHOOL$10,000
NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS$7,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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 (FY24–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $50k → 10%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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
NV
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 49% of The Fruth Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 3% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 12%.

The Fruth Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 15 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 15 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
18

Total granted

$1.8M
$402k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+95%

Still filing today

53%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyEducationHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • TD
    THE DREXEL FUND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $600k · revenue +76%
  • TH
    THE HEALDSBURG SCHOOL
    3× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +40%
  • E
    EDADVANCE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $31k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • CO
    COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue -1%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • AB
    A Breath of Hope Lung Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $55k · revenue +34%
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
5
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
6
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
7
Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation Inc

The sarnoff cardiovascular research foundation is dedicated to cultivating the next generation of physician-leaders in cardiovascular medicine by funding and supporting medical students and physicians engaged in transformative research.

Health
8
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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9
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
10
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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11
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
12
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Drexel Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,883,274 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUNDVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $700,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM+5 more: $40,450 · PhilanthropyST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $900,000 · OtherST JOHN'S UNIVERSITYMAYO CLINIC: $200,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…+29 more: $321,283 · Other+29 moreMAYO CLINIC: $1,000,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICA Breath of Hope Lung Foundation: $55,000 · Health+3 more: $22,500 · HealthTHE DREXEL FUND: $600,000 · EducationTHE DREXEL F…COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT: $125,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF S…THE HEALDSBURG SCHOOL: $45,000 · EducationTHE HEALDSBU…+2 more: $30,000 · EducationNEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesGRASSROOTS BASEBALL: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsSWAPPOW PLUS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$3,623,724Other$1,521,283Health$1,077,500Education$800,000Human Services$50,000Recreation & Sports$35,000Youth Development$2,500

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 budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,883,274 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $700,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DREXEL FUND: $600,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA Breath of Hope Lung Foundation: $55,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetNEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE HEALDSBURG SCHOOL: $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGRASSROOTS BASEBALL: $35,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetEDADVANCE: $31,141 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United Way of Lee County Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlaying For Life Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICON PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROMONTORY FOUNDATION: $8,700 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTahoe Community Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWAPPOW PLUS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSonoma Art School: $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE 74 MEDIA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $100 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Edadvance: 41% of income from government
  • Icon Preparatory School Inc: 22% of income from government
  • The United Way of Lee County Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Fruth Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Fruth Family 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.

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 53 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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