Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Ruettgers Family Charit 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.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 57
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $260,789
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 58
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $27M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations The Ruettgers Family Charit Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 56 | $1.7M | 34% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $1.2M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $1.4M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $2.3M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $1.7M | 24% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $2.0M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $2.0M | 25% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $2.0M | 54% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museum of Fine Arts | $2,064,424 | 7 | 0% |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc | $1,436,685 | 9 | 2% |
| Lahey Clinic Inc | $1,335,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Maranyundo Initiative Inc | $1,310,000 | 7 | 89% |
| The Garden Conservancy Inc | $669,090 | 9 | 5% |
| Foundation of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Inc | $449,778 | 2 | n/a |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | $260,789 | 1 | 0% |
| Concord Carlisle Foundation Inc | $260,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Hope International | $207,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $175,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 100 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ruettgers Family Charit Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 89 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Jaket Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Zachary and Lindsey Gund Foundation · Rosse Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Pobble Stone Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries
How this is measured
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About The Ruettgers Family Charit Foundation
- How much does The Ruettgers Family Charit Foundation give?
- The Ruettgers Family Charit Foundation reported 57 grants totaling $1,712,282 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Ruettgers Family Charit Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Education (15%), Health (15%).
- Who are The Ruettgers Family Charit Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Museum of Fine Arts ($2.1M), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc ($1.4M), Lahey Clinic Inc ($1.3M).
- Does The Ruettgers Family Charit Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ruettgers Family Charit Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ruettgers Family Charit Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation.
- Where is The Ruettgers Family Charit Foundation based?
- The Ruettgers Family Charit Foundation is based in MA.
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