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The Ruettgers Family Charit 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $533k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $335k
- $250k+1 grant · $290k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GARDEN CONSERVANCY | $289,820 |
| ISLAND SCHOOL | $125,000 |
| WGBH | $100,000 |
| CHILDRENS DAY SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| GASPARILLA ISLAND CONSERVATION DISTRICT ACT | $35,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $25,000 |
| DWELLING HOUSE OF HOPE | $25,000 |
| COLORADO CHAUTAUQUA ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| ENGLEWOOD COMMUNITY CARE | $25,000 |
| GAINING GROUND INC | $25,000 |
| MOVE UP GLOBAL INC | $25,000 |
| CONCORD-CARLISLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WINSOR SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $231k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 12 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS6× · 2017–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +29%
ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +117%- LCLAHEY CLINIC INC6× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +32%
Funded once
- FOFOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INCone grant, 2022 · $300k
- BIBETH ISRAELone grant, 2023 · $100k
- SLSPUR LOCAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +31%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Education and Research
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Kitchen Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
86 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 86 of the 127 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LAHEY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARANYUNDO INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WITNESS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds THE WINSOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SPUR LOCAL INC ↗
- Who funds GAINING GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOVE UP GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CHAUTAUQUA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FLATIRONS ELEMENTARY PTO ↗
- Who funds NETWORK OF ENGAGED INTERNATIONAL DONORS GLOBAL INC ↗
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.
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
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 organization The Ruettgers Family Charit 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Maranyundo Initiative Inc — 85% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- East Boston Community Soup Kitchen Inc — 20% of income from government
- Eastie Farm Inc — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Commonwealth Kitchen Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dwelling House of Hope Inc — 7% of income from government
- Growing Gardens — 6% of income from government
- Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
- Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Boston Children's Chorus Inc — 2% of income from government
- Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum — 1% of income from government
- Lahey Clinic Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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