· Private foundation
The Richard W Rupp 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $303k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AGRICULTURAL JUSTICE PROJECT | $50,000 |
| NOFA (NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC) | $40,000 |
| HALLWALLS CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER | $35,000 |
| DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC | $25,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $25,000 |
| THIRD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ROCHESTER | $13,000 |
| WORLD MUSIC PRODUCTIONS | $13,000 |
| THE BRIGID ALLIANCE | $11,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| ARTS FOR LEARNING | $10,000 |
| ARTS SERVICES INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| RESPONSE TO LOVE CENTER | $10,000 |
| NORTH PARK THEAT | $10,000 |
| NICHOLS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NY RESTORATION PROJECT | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k 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
- HIHALLWALLS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +21%
- TSTHE SUSAN B ANTHONY HOUSE5× · 2019–2023 · $171k · revenue +40%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $132k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS FOUNDATION OF WNYone grant, 2020 · $32k
- OLOUR LADY OF VICTORY CHARITIESone grant, 2020 · $25k
- PPP PARENTHOOD OF ARKANSAS & EAST OKLAHOMAone grant, 2021 · $21k
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.
New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The legal aid bureau of buffalo, inc., a not-for-profit organization, provides legal representation to financially needy men, women and children in western new york. through its skilled staff, the legal aid bureau seeks equal justice for…
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
Nyc bird alliance is a grassroots community that protects wild birds and habitat in the five boroughs, improving the quality of life for all new yorkers.
See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…
See schedule onylcvef's mission is to educate, engage and empower new yorkers to be effective advocates on behalf of the environment from clean energy and funding for parks, to solid waste and green buildings. first, we educate new yorkers…
To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Lawny increases access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy and service.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make the Road New York and the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Environmental Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
105 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. 105 of the 187 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 HALLWALLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUSAN B ANTHONY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF NY I ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds PLUTA CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD MUSIC PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds Amazon Watch Inc ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ASHFORD HOLLOW FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Torn Space Theater Inc ↗
- Who funds Juntos y Unidos por Puerto Rico Inc ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Greater Rochester Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Oceanic Society Expeditions ↗
- Who funds Genesee Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Elevated Access Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY 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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Baird Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Cullen Foundation · Simple Gifts Fund · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Rich Family Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc
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 Richard W Rupp 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.
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