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The Ruddie Memorial Youth 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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$97kHealth$80kHuman Services$75kCommunity Improvement$30kEducation$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$571k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARISE & FLOURISH INC$30,000
PROJECT-MOSAIC INC$30,000
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 (FY17–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNION CAPITAL BOSTON: $20k → 16%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $10k → 9%ALL GOOD LIVING FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $10k → 14%UNION CAPITAL BOSTON: $20k → 16%LOST ANGELS CHILDREN'S PROJECT: $10k → 14%PROJECT-MOSAIC INC: $30k → 17%DC127: $5k → 14%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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$118k · 4 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$118k
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+3%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • UC
    UNION CAPITAL INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +485%
  • Pearls for Teen Girls Inc
    4× · 2019–2022 · $32k · revenue +58%
  • WW
    WATERSIDE WORKSHOPS
    2× · 2018–2023 · $30k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • AG
    ALL GOOD LIVING FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
  • WW
    WATERSIDE WORKSHOPS
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • TA
    THE ART OF YOGA
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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.

1
Project Pearls Usa Inc

Helping the poorest of the poor children and families in the Philippines to have a better life through education, literacy, empowerment, nutrition and health care.

International
2
Color the Block

Color The Block fosters a healthier, more equitable society by providing access to creative, educational, and environmental programs. We operate with the belief that collective action, creative expression, and hands-on learning experiences…

Arts & Culture
3
Sprouts Chef Training

Equipping youth to rise from hardship through culinary training and job placement. Youth at Sprouts are paired with a chef mentor and wraparound program to develop the vocational skills needed to secure and maintain a culinary job.…

Education
4
Los Angeles Youth Network

Youth Emerging Stronger (YES) empowers young people, between ages of 12 and 24 within Los Angeles County, including but not limited to run-away and homeless youth. YES mission is to end homelessness one youth at a time to become…

Human Services
5
UrbanPromise Charlotte

Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.

Youth Development
6
MyPath

MyPath provides youth from under-resourced communities with the financial knowledge, confidence, and tools they need to get on a path to building wealth.

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7
Farm2People

Farm2People's mission is to secure local harvests and fight hunger in Greater Los Angeles.

Food & Nutrition
8
Partnership for Children & Youth

By strategically linking people, practice and policy, we make sure that children and youth in the most under-resourced communities receive quality expanded learning opportunities and that all their learning environments school, afterschool…

Community Improvement
9
Pathways Kitchen

Pathways kitchen helps justice-impacted youth thrive over survive by providing training, work opportunities and individualized support to ensure they can chart their own path forward

Crime & Legal
10
Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services
11
Partners with Families and Children Spokane

Our mission is to prevent, interrupt and repair cycles of abuse and neglect within families.Our vision is safe children, healthy families, thriving communities.

Crime & Legal
12
Youth Policy Institute Inc

Youth policy institute (ypi) transforms los angeles neighborhoods, reducing poverty by offering cradle to college & career services.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lost Angels Childrens Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Arise&Flourish 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNION CAPITAL INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesUNION CAPITAL INCALL GOOD LIVING FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesALL GOOD LIVING FOUNDATION INCPROJECT-MOSAIC INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT-MOSAIC INCTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECTLost Angels Childrens Project Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesLost Angels Childrens Project IncHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECTDC127 Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesWATERSIDE WORKSHOPS: $20,000 · OtherWATERSIDE WORKSHOPSTHE ART OF YOGA: $20,000 · OtherTHE ART OF YOGABBBS OF METRO MILWAUKEE: $10,000 · OtherBBBS OF METRO MILWAUK…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…WE LIFT LA: $19,914 · Youth DevelopmentWE LIFT LATHREAD INC: $16,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHREAD INCPearls for Teen Girls Inc: $31,500 · EducationPearls for …Arise&Flourish Inc: $30,000 · HealthArise&Flou…WATERSIDE WORKSHOPS: $30,000 · Arts & CultureWATERSIDE …
Human Services$135,000Other$60,000Youth Development$35,914Education$31,500Health$30,000Arts & Culture$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNION CAPITAL INC: $40,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetPearls for Teen Girls Inc: $31,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetArise&Flourish Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetALL GOOD LIVING FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetWATERSIDE WORKSHOPS: $30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWE LIFT LA: $19,914 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHREAD INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLost Angels Childrens Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDC127 Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ruddie Memorial Youth Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ruddie Memorial Youth Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Thread Inc: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 Ruddie Memorial Youth Foundation 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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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