How much did THE JOHN H AND JAN W RUHLE grant in FY2024?

THE JOHN H AND JAN W RUHLE reported 20 grants totaling $175,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is THE JOHN H AND JAN W RUHLE based?

THE JOHN H AND JAN W RUHLE is based in PA.

THE JOHN H AND JAN W RUHLE

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

THE JOHN H AND JAN W RUHLE

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$175k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$50k

Largest

01What you fund

0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2024.

Education$182kPhilanthropy$51kArts & Culture$46kHealth$37kPublic Benefit$4kEnvironment$2kOther$15k

02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k14 grants · $30k
$10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$50k–250k2 grants · $100k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON$50,000
BETHLEHEM AREA VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL SCHOOL BRIDGES FOUNDATION$50,000
HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS & SITES$15,000
UNITED WAY$10,000
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL$10,000
GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION$10,000
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY$5,000
THE HERITAGE CONSERVANCY$5,000
ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM$5,000
PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS$4,000
ARTSQUEST$2,000
PBS FOUNDATION$2,000
HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY$1,000
WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY$1,000
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY$1,000

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 7%. 97% of your 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$312k · 10 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$312k

$1k

Still filing today

90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther

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

THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON
2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +1%
BA
BETHLEHEM AREA VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL SCHOOL BRIDGES FOUNDATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $51k · revenue +170% · 37% of their budget
EE
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +57%

Funded once

SF
SEMPER FI OF AMERICA'S FUND
one grant, 2023 · $1k

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.

Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.

Education

Historic Bethlehem Incorporated

Collects, restores, preserves, and interprets material culture, historic buildings, and history associated with crafts, trades and industries in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Heckscher Museum

Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.

Arts & Culture

Delaware Museum of Nature and Science

Investigate nature & science, preserve & interpret collections, conduct scientific research

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Mastery Charter High School

Students learn the skills needed for post secondary success and are able to pursue their dreams.

Education

Wilson College

Wilson college is a private, liberal arts institution committed to access and affordability in higher education. degrees are offered in 34 undergraduate majors with 40 minors as well as 10 graduate-level programs of study.

Education

Susquehanna Heritage Corporation

As a designated national and state heritage area, susquehanna heritage corporation works to raise awareness and appreciation of the cultural and economic value of the susquehanna riverlands, and preserve, enhance and celebrate the area's…

Community Improvement

Historical Society of Princeton

Historical society of princeton develops signature programs of learning and discovery to connect the lessons of the past to the issues which inform our future.

Arts & Culture

Computer History Museum

Chm decodes technology - its computing past, digital present, and future impact on humanity.

Arts & Culture

Pennsylvania Institute of Technology

To provide student success by offering the best collegiate education.

Education

American Jewish Historical Society

Access to millions of artifacts reflecting the history of the jewish presence in the u.s.

Arts & Culture

Opera Philadelphia

Opera philadelphia is committed to embracing innovation and developing opera for the 21st century.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heritage Conservancy Inc. 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

16 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)

16/16

Grantees still filing

15/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$181,500Philanthropy$51,000Arts & Culture$46,000Health$37,000Other$14,500Public Benefit$4,000Environment$2,000

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.

Lehigh Valley Community FoundationPA20.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Air Products Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Ppl Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker · The Century Fund Trust · The Rider-Pool Foundation · Lutron Foundation · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation

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 THE JOHN H AND JAN W RUHLE 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.

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typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: BETHLEHEM AREA VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL SCHOOL BRIDGES FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 232987301 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 BETHLEHEM AREA VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL SCHOOL BRIDGES 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 37% 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.

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How do I get to The John H and Jan W Ruhle?

Find your warmest path to The John H and Jan W Ruhle 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.

THE JOHN H AND JAN W RUHLE

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

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The John H and Jan W Ruhle?

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THE JOHN H AND JAN W RUHLE

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

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The John H and Jan W Ruhle?

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