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The Karl and Alice Ruppenthal Foundation For The Arts at a glance

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The Karl and Alice Ruppenthal Foundation For The Arts

$172k
Granted FY2019
40
Grants FY2019
6
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Arts & Culture$175kInternational$27kEnvironment$23kYouth Development$14kPhilanthropy$9kEducation$9kHuman Services$8kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2019 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k35 grants · $96k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $76k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UUCB Building Maintenance Fund$31,000
Crucible Youth Program$15,000
350Org$10,000
Berkeley Chamber Performances$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
National Resources Defense Council$7,000
Read Aloud Volunter Program$5,500
Youth Radio$5,000
Environmental Defense Fund$5,000
Students Rising Above$5,000
One World Children's Fund$5,000
Medcial Clown Project$4,000
American Refugee Committee$4,000
Berkeley Repertory Theater$4,000
FINCA$4,000
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Rosenberg Fund For Children: $2k → 12%Rosenberg Fund For Children: $500 → 12%Rosenberg Fund For Children: $500 → 12%Girls Incorporated of Alameda Count: $3k → 10%Girls Incorporated of Alameda Count: $1k → 10%Girls Incorporated of Alameda Count: $1k → 10%A Better Way Development Dept: $3k → 10%A Better Way Development Dept: $1k → 10%A Better Way Development Dept: $1k → 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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$260k · 40 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
5

Total granted

$260k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+10%

Still filing today

68%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TC
    THE CRUCIBLE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $23k · revenue +42%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $9k · revenue +17%
  • BR
    BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $8k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • UU
    Unitarian Universalist Church - Ber
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • PP
    Paso Pacifico
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -13%
  • N
    Niroga
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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.

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California Bach Society Inc

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…

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2
San Francisco Performances Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
3
San Francisco Philharmonic Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Voices of Silicon Valley

Community Music / Arts Organization

Arts & Culture
5
Eugene Symphony Association Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
6
New Century Chamber Orchestra

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.

Arts & Culture
7
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Opera Santa Barbara

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…

Arts & Culture
9
San Francisco Bach Choir

The san francisco bach choir brings people together to experience choral musics transformative power to touch, engage and inspire.

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10
San Francisco Jazz Organization

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Ojai Festivals Ltd

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Symphony; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 45 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
16/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UUCB Building Maintenance Fund: $38,000 · OtherUUCB Building Maintenance FundIndividual grant recipient: $13,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNational Resources Defense Council: $10,000 · OtherNational Resources Defense CouncilYOUTH RADIO: $9,000 · OtherYOUTH RADIOMedcial Clown Project: $7,000 · OtherMedcial Clown ProjectUnitarian Universalist Church - Ber: $6,000 · OtherMerola Foundation: $5,000 · OtherCommunity Education Partnerships De: $5,000 · OtherAmerican Friends Service Community: $4,500 · OtherNIROGA INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Other+9 more: $20,250 · Other+9 moreBERKELEY CHAMBER PERFORMANCES: $16,000 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY CHAMBER PE…BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE: $7,500 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY REPERTORY …YOUNG MUSICIANS CHORAL ORCHESTRA: $4,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG MUSICIANS CHO…PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA & CHORALE: $4,000 · Arts & CulturePHILHARMONIA BAROQU…SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $3,500 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPH…SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $3,500 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO OPERA…American Bach Soloists: $2,250 · Arts & CultureThe Aurora Theatre Company: $2,250 · Arts & CultureSan Francisco Girls Chorus Inc: $1,750 · Arts & CultureWEST EDGE OPERA: $1,750 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CRUCIBLE: $23,000 · EducationTHE CRUCIBLEREAD-ALOUD VOLUNTEER PROGRAM: $8,500 · EducationREAD-ALOUD VO…SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $1,750 · Education350ORG: $14,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $7,000 · EnvironmentFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE: $9,000 · PhilanthropyOne World Childrens Fund: $8,000 · PhilanthropyFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 · InternationalALIGHT: $5,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,000 · InternationalGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $5,000 · Human ServicesA BETTER WAY INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN INC: $3,000 · Human Services
Other$123,250Arts & Culture$47,500Education$33,250Environment$21,000Philanthropy$17,000International$15,000Human Services$13,000

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 CRUCIBLE: $23,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budget350ORG: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH RADIO: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREAD-ALOUD VOLUNTEER PROGRAM: $8,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetOne World Childrens Fund: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNIROGA INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA BETTER WAY INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALIGHT: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MUSICIANS CHORAL ORCHESTRA: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA & CHORALE: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Bach Soloists: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Aurora Theatre Company: $2,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Girls Chorus Inc: $1,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPaso Pacifico: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CHANTICLEER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARPLAY: $500 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

The San Francisco Fou…The William & Flora H…Ann & Gordon Getty Fo…Jewish Community Fede…Silicon Valley Commun…Marin Community Found…The Bernard Osher Fou…Carol Franc Buck Foun…The Sam Mazza Foundat…The Morris Stulsaft F…Kenneth Rainin Founda…Koret Foundation
The San Francisco FoundationCA25× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Karl and Alice Ruppenthal Foundation For The Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Karl and Alice Ruppenthal Foundation For The Arts. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Karl and Alice Ruppenthal Foundation For The Arts 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 45 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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