· Private foundation
The Ruane 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
- $250k+4 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $1,500,159 |
| JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER | $1,000,203 |
| PROVIDENCE COLLEGE | $1,000,192 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,038 |
| ST MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUND | $100,000 |
| A WISH COME TRUE | $25,000 |
| LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY HOUSE | $4,000 |
| NAVY SEAL MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| MCLEAN HOSPITAL | $1,500 |
| OPERATION TROOP SUPPORT | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 20% of The Ruane Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JMJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $2.2M · revenue +119%
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +30%
- LTLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation4× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- BIBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH - BEVERLY HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $500k
- MEMASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EARone grant, 2020 · $500k
- CCCOREY C GRIFFIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $250k
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.
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
JMCPG is committed to providing compassionate, personalized care from the region's most trusted team of physicians and health care professionals. Across the Palm Beaches and the Treasure Coast of Florida, JMCPG practice locations offer…
THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…
To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.
The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, TMH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.
The Foundation provides cardiology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the field of cardiology…
Nicklaus Children's Health System is the region's only healthcare system exclusively for children. Our mission is to inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child. TO PERFORM THE FUNCTIONS OF, OR TO…
The Foundation provides surgical services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the field of surgery by…
The Foundation's mission is to provide pathology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the field…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
The Foundation's mission is to provide ophthalmology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
- Who funds A WISH COME TRUE INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds UDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION TROOP SUPPORT INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ruane Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ruane Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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