· Private foundation
The Karl and Alice Ruppenthal Foundation For The Arts
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of The Karl and Alice Ruppenthal Foundation For The Arts’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k35 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UUCB Building Maintenance Fund | $31,000 |
| Crucible Youth Program | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Berkeley Chamber Performances | $10,000 |
| 350Org | $10,000 |
| National Resources Defense Council | $7,000 |
| Read Aloud Volunter Program | $5,500 |
| Youth Radio | $5,000 |
| One World Children's Fund | $5,000 |
| Students Rising Above | $5,000 |
| Environmental Defense Fund | $5,000 |
| Medcial Clown Project | $4,000 |
| FINCA | $4,000 |
| American Refugee Committee | $4,000 |
| Berkeley Repertory Theater | $4,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
40 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TCTHE CRUCIBLE3× · 2017–2019 · $23k · revenue +21%
- 3350ORG2× · 2018–2019 · $14k · revenue +2%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE3× · 2017–2019 · $9k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- UUUnitarian Universalist Church - Berone grant, 2017 · $6k
- NNirogaone grant, 2017 · $2k
- PPPaso Pacificoone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -13%
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.
Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…
SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.
Take world-class symphonic music off the pedestal and into the heart of our community. San Francisco Philharmonic is an orchestral group dedicated to cultural enrichment, music education and creating a performance platform for women and…
Community Music / Arts Organization
Enriching lives through the power of music, presenting a diverse range of orchestral repertoire at the highest level of artistic excellence, and providing musical education opportunities for children and adults.
New century chamber orchestra, a virtuoso, conductorless string ensemble founded in 1992, presents performances of extraordinary quality in the san francisco bay area with a commitment to innovation, education, and accessibility.
To enrich the Twin Cities community by sharing distinctive and engaging chamber orchestra performances. We are committed to inclusivity and strive to provide all people in our community with opportunities to connect with our music.
See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…
The san francisco bach choir brings people together to experience choral musics transformative power to touch, engage and inspire.
The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…
The mission of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is to foster and maintain an organization dedicated to making music consonant with the highest aspirations of the musical art, creating performances and providing educational and training…
The ojai music festival serves as a creative music laboratory for pioneering new works,championing adventurous programming, and working with today's emerging artists with events during the year and the ojai music festival serves as a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Symphony and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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. 30 of the 45 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 CRUCIBLE ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY CHAMBER PERFORMANCES ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds YOUTH RADIO ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE ↗
- Who funds READ-ALOUD VOLUNTEER PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds One World Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds A BETTER WAY INC ↗
- Who funds NIROGA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA & CHORALE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MUSICIANS CHORAL ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds ROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds American Bach Soloists ↗
- Who funds The Aurora Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds WEST EDGE OPERA ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Girls Chorus Inc ↗
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: The San Francisco Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Bernard Osher Foundation · Carol Franc Buck Foundation · The Sam Mazza Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Koret 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 organization The Karl and Alice Ruppenthal Foundation For The Arts 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.
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.
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