How much did THE RUCKS FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of THE RUCKS FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

educationtruthstudents

2019

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2020

—

2021

ministries

2022

faithguatemala

2023

catholic churchguatemala

2024

crosscatholicfaithchurchguatemalaministry

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k14 grants · $65k
$10k–50k18 grants · $344k
$50k–250k4 grants · $250k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$163k

Total assets

Largest grants

FOOD FOR THE POOR$250,000
ST MARY MOTHER OF THE CHURCH$100,000
OPERATION SMILE$50,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ACADIANA$50,000
MERCY SHIPS$50,000
FAMILY MISSIONS COMPANY$37,500
COMMUNITY OF JESUS CRUCIFIED - PRIEST BROTHER AND SISTER SERVANTS$35,000
JOHN PAUL II HEALING CENTER$30,000
WITNESS TO LOVE$30,000
LOUISIANA PAROLE PROJECT$25,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONS$25,000
NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION$21,500
LOURDES FOUNDATION INC$20,000
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS$20,000
METANOIA$15,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.6M · 43 repeat orgs$580k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +56% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.6M

$497k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

Still filing today

49%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesReligionCrime & LegalInternationalEducationOther

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

OS
OPERATION SMILE
8× · 2017–2024 · $270k · revenue +37%
JP
JOHN PAUL II HEALING CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +164%
MERCY SHIPS
8× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +303%

Funded once

WC
WILLIAM C SCHUMACHER FAMILY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue -88%
LF
LSU FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $130k · revenue +56%
SJ
ST JOSEPH HARDSHIP FUND
one grant, 2020 · $75k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Christus Health Central Louisiana

Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in comformity with the roman catholic church.

Health

Christus Health Southwestern Louisiana

Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the roman catholic church.

Health

Lourdes University

Lourdes university, rooted in catholic and franciscan traditions, provides a values-centered education that enriches lives and advances academic excellence.

Education

Louisiana Christian University

Operation of baptist college campus

Education

Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education

Life Choices of North Central Louisiana

Life choices of north central louisiana is a christian,pro-life ministry proclaiming the love of jesus christ and providing practical, emotional, and spiritual assistance to women and families who face pregnancy and abortion related issues.

Health

Listen Love Pray Foundation

Religion

Our Lady of the Angels Hospital Inc

The hospital's purpose is to provide care for the ill, injured, or disabled (see scheudle o) persons & to provide for research, education, & the enhancement of health of those in southeast louisiana.

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House of Mercy

Human Services

Agnus Dei Foundation

The Agnus Dei Foundation operates THE LAMB OF GOD MATERNITY HOME and is dedicated to offering real options for pregnant women in crisis by providing 24/7 care through housing, education and support.

Human Services

Mercy Health Partners

To provide health care and hospital services.

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Catholic Medical Center

The heart of Catholic Medical Center is to carry out Christ's healing ministry by offering health, healing, and hope to every individual who seeks our care.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Lady of the Lake Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Young Life. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 25 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/37

the rest of the field

14%

3,018/20,972

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.

05the grantee network

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/34

Grantees still filing

24/34

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,861,700International$1,183,800Religion$399,500Health$258,200Arts & Culture$166,000Philanthropy$159,000Education$138,750

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.

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.

Community Foundation of AcadianaLA51.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Acadiana · Mills Family Foundation Inc · Pinhook Foundation Inc · Martial F Billeaud Sr Foundation · Haynie Family Foundation · Florence Mauboules Charitable Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · Zuschlag Family Foundation Co Richard E Zuschlag Trustee · William C Schumacher Family Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · James D Moncus Family Foundation · Billy & Clara Mosing 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 organisation THE RUCKS FAMILY 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LAFAYETTE EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 581849198 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LAFAYETTE EDUCATION FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Rucks Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Rucks Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE RUCKS FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Rucks Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE RUCKS FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Rucks Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph