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The John H and Jan W Ruhle Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$175k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$232kHealth$38kArts & Culture$38kEnvironment$12kPhilanthropy$10kPublic Benefit$4kAnimals$2kHuman Services$1k
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$4,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON$50,000
BETHLEHEM AREA VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL SCHOOL BRIDGES FOUNDATION$50,000
HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS & SITES$15,000
GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION$10,000
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL$10,000
UNITED WAY$10,000
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY$5,000
ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM$5,000
THE HERITAGE CONSERVANCY$5,000
PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS$4,000
PBS FOUNDATION$2,000
ARTSQUEST$2,000
SOMERSET HILLS LEARNING INSTITUTE INC$1,000
BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM$1,000
HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%THE HERITAGE CONSERVANCY: $5k → 6%SEMINARY RIDGE HISTORYIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%ARTSQUEST: $2k → 11%HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY: $1k → 11%ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $5k → 11%PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $4k → 9%SEMPER FI OF AMERICA'S FUND: $1k → 11%STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%SOMERSET HILLS LEARNING INSTITUTE INC: $1k → 5%THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $100k → 11%PBS FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%UNITED WAY: $10k → 9%THE HERITAGE CONSERVANCY: $5k → 6%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY: $1k → 11%HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY: $1k → 11%ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $5k → 11%THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $50k → 11%LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39: $500 → 11%GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION: $15k → 11%BETHLEHEM AREA VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL SCHOOL BRIDGES FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION: $10k → 11%BETHLEHEM AREA VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL SCHOOL BRIDGES FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%EXECUTIVE EDUCATION ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $20k → 11%EXECUTIVE EDUCATION ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $10k → 11%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $7k → 11%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $5k → 11%WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY: $1k → 11%WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY: $1k → 11%HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS & SITES: $15k → 11%HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS & SITES: $5k → 11%BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM: $1k → 11%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

10
1

Total granted

$312k
$1k

Still filing today

90%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +12%
  • BA
    BETHLEHEM AREA VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL SCHOOL BRIDGES FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $51k · revenue +176% · 37% of their budget
  • EE
    EXECUTIVE EDUCATION ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +11%

Funded once

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

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…

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2
The Public School of Germantown

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…

Education
3
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
4
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
5
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

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…

Environment
6
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
7
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

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…

Environment
8
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
9
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
10
Public Media Nj Inc

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

Arts & Culture
11
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Conservancy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 21 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $150,000 · EducationTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETONEXECUTIVE EDUCATION ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $30,000 · EducationEXECUTIVE EDUCATION ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL+2 more: $1,500 · EducationBETHLEHEM AREA VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL SCHOOL BRIDGES FOUNDATION INC: $51,000 · PhilanthropyBETHLEHEM AREA VO…HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES: $20,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC BETHLEH…HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE CONSERV…ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureALLENTOWN ART MU…ARTSQUEST: $2,000 · Arts & CulturePBS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $3,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreGOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK: $25,000 · HealthCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $12,000 · OtherUNITED WAY: $10,000 · OtherSEMPER FI OF AMERICA'S FUND: $1,000 · OtherPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $4,000 · Public BenefitWILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentHAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · Animals
Education$181,500Philanthropy$51,000Arts & Culture$47,500Health$25,000Other$23,000Public Benefit$4,000Environment$2,000Animals$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBETHLEHEM AREA VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL SCHOOL BRIDGES FOUNDATION INC: $51,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetEXECUTIVE EDUCATION ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTSQUEST: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOMERSET HILLS LEARNING INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEMINARY RIDGE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39: $500 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.

Lehigh Valley Communi…United Way of the Gre…Air Products Foundati…Ppl FoundationMartin Guitar Charita…Ibm International Fou…Dexter F and Dorothy …Lutron FoundationJohn a and Margaret P…Butz FoundationAmaranth FoundationThe Century Fund Trust
Lehigh Valley Community FoundationPA26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 John H and Jan W Ruhle Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John H and Jan W Ruhle Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Hun School of Princeton: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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