· Private foundation
The John H and Jan W Ruhle 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION | $10,000 |
| EXECUTIVE EDUCATION ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY | $5,000 |
| THE HERITAGE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS | $4,000 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ARTSQUEST | $2,000 |
| HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY | $1,000 |
| WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +12%- BABETHLEHEM AREA VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL SCHOOL BRIDGES FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $51k · revenue +176% · 37% of their budget
- EEEXECUTIVE EDUCATION ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- SFSEMPER FI OF AMERICA'S FUNDone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
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.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Collects, restores, preserves, and interprets material culture, historic buildings, and history associated with crafts, trades and industries in the 18th and 19th centuries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paws for Purple Hearts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 21 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 THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM AREA VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL SCHOOL BRIDGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EXECUTIVE EDUCATION ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSQUEST ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET HILLS LEARNING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SEMINARY RIDGE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39 ↗
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: Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Air Products Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation · Lutron Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Butz Foundation · Amaranth Foundation · The Century Fund Trust
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 The John H and Jan W Ruhle Family 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.
- The Hun School of Princeton — 0% of income from government
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.