Virginia · Private foundation
The Ruffin Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $231k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $376k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations The Ruffin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | 14 | $231k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $234k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $338k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $135k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $154k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $234k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $275k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $226k | 48% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Norfolk Academy | $900,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Virginia Gentlemen Foundation Inc | $166,000 | 4 | 8% |
| An Achievable Dream Inc | $156,700 | 7 | 4% |
| The Discovery Land Company Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $25,527 | 9 | 0% |
| Risevb | $8,500 | 5 | 8% |
| Virginia Beach Rescue Squad Foundation Inc | $6,438 | 3 | 1% |
| Team Gleason Foundation | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hola Incorporated | $5,500 | 4 | 13% |
| Virginia Beach Police Foundation Inc | $4,800 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($649k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ruffin Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Sentara Health · C Barker Champions for Charity Inc · The Townsend Family Foundation · Franklin Family Foundation · E C Wareheim Foundation · Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · The Windward Foundation · Sterzing Charitable Trust · Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation
How this is measured
About The Ruffin Family Foundation
- How much does The Ruffin Family Foundation give?
- The Ruffin Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $230,577 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Ruffin Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (56%), Health (31%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are The Ruffin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Norfolk Academy ($901k), Virginia Gentlemen Foundation Inc ($166k), An Achievable Dream Inc ($157k).
- Does The Ruffin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ruffin Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ruffin Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hampton Roads Community Foundation, United Way of South Hampton Roads, Sentara Health.
- Where is The Ruffin Family Foundation based?
- The Ruffin Family Foundation is based in VA.
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