· Private foundation
The Ruckstuhl Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $469k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Seminario Reformado Latinoamericano | $206,080 |
| Project Allanza | $199,950 |
| Community Health Edu for Rural Afri | $62,625 |
| Friends of Batahola | $28,950 |
| Brothers of the Sacred Heart Founda | $28,950 |
| Franciscan Works | $28,950 |
| Individual grant recipient | $24,126 |
| Olancho Aid Foundation | $19,300 |
| Lasting Friends | $19,300 |
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 (FY20–21, $224k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 16% of The Ruckstuhl 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.
15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DODIOCESE OF ORLANDO3× · 2019–2021 · $1.4M
- PAPROJECT ALIANZA INC3× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +12% · 52% of their budget
- LFLASTING FRIENDS INC5× · 2018–2025 · $975k · revenue -88% · 79% of their budget
Funded once
- COCONVENTUAL OF FRANCISCAN FRIARSone grant, 2018 · $62k
- FWFRANCISCAN WORKS LIBERIA MISSIONone grant, 2018 · $28k
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.
Provide tuition for ~150 impoverished children grades K-12 to attend the Hogar de Nazareth Catholic school at Saint Joseph the Worker Parish in Tegucigalpa Honduras. Additionally provide breakfast before school for ~30 extremely poor…
Bringing the Good News of Jesus Christ to Latin America to help relieve the suffering of those in need. Teaching the Word of God and distributing Bibles Building churches and establishing Bible believing fellowships across Latin America
Mission work in nicaragua
The purpose of the program is to alleviate suffering in underdeveloped countries by providing support and assistance to youth and families in need.
Originally we had a childrens home in nicaragua, but with recent changes from the government, we have converted both of the houses to be used for housing groups that come to nicaragua on mission trips from the usa.
Effective medical missions
Christian missions and ministries oversea countries; in Cambodia and Mali, church planting, evangelism, medical mission, schools (K - 12), helping the poor and the needy, Crusades, mercy missions (distributing rice, medicine, etc),…
Encouragement and promotion of evangelistic ministry.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 20 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 PROJECT ALIANZA INC ↗
- Who funds LASTING FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Health and Education for Rural Africa Inc ↗
- Who funds Franciscan Works ↗
- Who funds MISSIONERS OF CHRIST ↗
- Who funds SEMINARIO REFORMADO LATINOAMERICANO ↗
- Who funds OLANCHO AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAJUN HEARTS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds RESPIRE MINISTRIES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ruckstuhl Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ruckstuhl Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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