How much does The Ruth & Robert Satter Charitable Trust give?

The Ruth & Robert Satter Charitable Trust reported 20 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 25 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.

What does The Ruth & Robert Satter Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (15%), Religion (14%), Environment (11%).

Who are The Ruth & Robert Satter Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Interfaith Works of Central New York ($28k), Family Health Ministries Inc ($18k), Safe Passage ($14k).

Does The Ruth & Robert Satter Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Ruth & Robert Satter Charitable Trust 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 Ruth & Robert Satter Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America.

Where is The Ruth & Robert Satter Charitable Trust based?

The Ruth & Robert Satter Charitable Trust is based in NM.

The Ruth & Robert Satter Charitable Trust

The Ruth & Robert Satter Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

The Ruth & Robert Satter Charitable Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

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 2026.

Education$58kReligion$54kEnvironment$45kInternational$41kArts & Culture$33kCivil Rights$31kFood & Nutrition$24kHuman Services$16kOther$0

02FY2026 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$630k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PRO PUBLICA	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
DEMOCRACY FORWARD	$5,000
FAMILY HEALTH MINISTRIES	$5,000
ALL SAINTS CHURCH	$4,000
LEAGUE OF WOMENS VOTERS	$3,334
WORKERS CENTER OF CENTRAL NEW YORK	$3,000
INTERFAITH WORKS OF CNY	$3,000
SEATTLE LGBTQ CENTER	$2,000
IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY	$2,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,667
SHEPHERDS TABLE	$1,666
SEATTLE SYMPHONY	$1,333
FRIENDS OF PORTLAND EDUCATION	$1,333
IPSWICH HUMANE GROUP	$1,112

02The need

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 (FY18–26, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$231k · 32 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2026, 23 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$231k

$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%

+1%

Still filing today

69%

49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

IW
INTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK
3× · 2023–2025 · $28k · revenue +64%
Safe Passage
8× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +40%
PRO PUBLICA INC
2× · 2025–2026 · $9k · revenue +48%

Funded once

FB
FOOD BANK OF CEN EAST NC
one grant, 2021 · $14k
SC
SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOC JUST
one grant, 2018 · $10k
SE
SOUTHERN ENVIRON LAW CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $9k

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.

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

United States Naval Institute

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.

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The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education

Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports

The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc; the most unlike its peers is Portland Esl Scholarship Fund. 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

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 81 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/44

Grantees still filing

24/44

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$252,174Education$35,133Human Services$31,138International$27,652Arts & Culture$20,344Environment$14,208Philanthropy$13,850

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

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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Ruth & Robert Satter Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ruth & Robert Satter Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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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