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The Ruffwood 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mayo Clinic | $1,000,000 |
| Nascar Foundation | $300,000 |
| Super Cat Fest 4 Kids | $150,000 |
| Dawsonville History Museum Inc | $100,000 |
| Sherry White Ministries | $50,000 |
| American Cancer Society | $20,000 |
| Jeep Beach Inc | $20,000 |
| Lake Lanier Association | $20,000 |
| Andee's Army | $20,000 |
| The Creative Chapter Inc | $20,000 |
| Chateau Elan Military Support Found | $10,000 |
| Angels Just 4 Kids Inc | $10,000 |
| Angel Flight | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $218k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +42% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- SCSummit Charter School Foundation2× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +303% · 53% of their budget
- SCSUPER CAT FEST 4 KIDS3× · 2023–2025 · $450k · revenue +59% · 39% of their budget
- JBJEEP BEACH INC4× · 2022–2025 · $170k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- CSCAMP SUNSHINE INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +10%
- CPCaptain Planet Foundation Incone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- OAOPERATION AIRDROP INCone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
To provide respite for families caring for a child with cancer.
Founded in 1984, camp sunshine provides retreats combining respite, recreation and support, while enabling hope and promoting joy, for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families through the various stages of a child's…
Soldiers' angels provides aid, comfort, and resources to the military, veterans, and their families.
To support families fighting cancer, people with special needs, and chronic illness by coordinating fly-fishing tournaments on exceptional waters.
Miracle flights is a national charity that provides free commercial airline tickets for u.s. residents in need of distant medical care not available in their own communities.
Rally foundation, a 501(c) (3) non profit organization, empowers volunteers across the country to raise awareness and funds for childhood cancer research to find better treatments with fewer long term side effects and, ultimately, cures.
Ferrari of Atlanta hosts an annual charity event called Rides to Remember in support of local families battling childhood cancer.
Instilling inspiration and empowerment, while enhancing the lives of children with serious illnesses.
Promoting the amateur sport of rowing for youths and adults.
Provide opportunity to Veterans to experiance opportunities of entertainment through motorsports to allow them to escape and bond with new friends via speacial VIP experiences.
Since 2010, aeroangel has provided free private jet flights primarily for seriously ill children needing travel to and from distant, life-saving medical care. aeroangel is a unique, national aviation charity that uses only private jets…
To provide support and education to breast cancer survivors.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Sunshine Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 39 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER INC ↗
- Who funds Summit Charter School Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOTORSPORTS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SUPER CAT FEST 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds DAWSONVILLE HISTORY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds JEEP BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE OF THE OZARKS SHOOTOUT INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds Sherry White Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds ANDEE'S ARMY ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Captain Planet Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE LANIER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION AIRDROP INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE RACE CORP ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds 1000 ISLAND CHARITY POKER RUN CORP ↗
- Who funds OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Reef Relief Inc ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROAD 2 RECOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ruffwood 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.
- Sherry White Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Jeep Beach Inc — 0% of income from government
- Samuel's House Inc — 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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