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The Ruth Krauss Foundation Inc

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.

$160k
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$265kEducation$232kFood & Nutrition$213kArts & Culture$118kCrime & Legal$118kHealth$102kYouth Development$72kEmployment$68kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k47 grants · $138k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOKE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$12,000
CONNECTICUT FOOD BANK$10,000
MARRAKECH INC$9,000
STOCKBRIDGE LIBRARY$9,000
PROJECT MORRY$6,000
THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE$5,500
MASS AUDUBON$5,000
PEOPLE'S PANTRY$5,000
BERKSHIRE BOUNTY$5,000
CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES$5,000
FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS$5,000
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND$4,500
BERKSHIRE GROWN$4,000
OPERATION HOPE$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE WOMENS FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $4k → 17%THE WOMENS FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $3k → 17%THE WOMENS FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $3k → 17%THE WOMENS FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $2k → 17%THE WOMENS FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $2k → 17%THE WOMENS FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $2k → 17%THE WOMENS FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $2k → 17%THE WOMENS FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $1k → 17%THE WOMENS FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $1k → 17%LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 9%LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 9%LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 9%LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 9%LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 9%LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 9%REGIONAL YMCA OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT: $3k → 9%REGIONAL YMCA OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT: $3k → 9%REGIONAL YMCA OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT: $2k → 9%CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PITTSFIELD INC: $3k → 12%ST JOSEPH'S PARENTING CENTER: $3k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S PARENTING CENTER: $3k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S PARENTING CENTER: $2k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S PARENTING CENTER: $2k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S PARENTING CENTER: $2k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 9%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE: $14k → 9%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE: $10k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $2k → 9%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE: $7k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $2k → 9%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE: $6k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $2k → 9%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE: $6k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $2k → 9%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE: $6k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $2k → 9%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE: $6k → 9%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE: $5k → 9%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 59 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against -43% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
6

Total granted

$1.5M
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
-43%

Still filing today

63%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther

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

  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +46%
  • CF
    CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +97%
  • CL
    CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • BC
    BERKSHIRE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES (18 DEGREES)
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • EW
    EDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -60%
  • TC
    THE CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PITTSFIELD
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -43%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
2
Child Care of the Berkshires Inc

The organization provides child care services to families through child care centers and a network of family child care homes. child care of the berkshires also strengthens families through support services and home visiting focused on…

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3
Community Counseling of Bristol County Inc

The purpose and mission of community counseling of bristol county, inc. (ccbc) is to develop and deliver compassionate, responsive, culturally competent, and quality mental health and substance abuse services to meet the…

Health
4
The Arc of Bristol County Inc

To foster community partnerships, promote individual advocacy and create a pathway for growth and innovation by offering exceptional support and services to people with all abilities through the attraction, development and retention of…

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5
Connections Work

Connections work changes lives and improves communities by providing services and supports to individuals seeking pathways to success.

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6
Berk County Regional Employment Board

To provide policy guidance, selection and oversight and to organize programs for the purpose of work force development in berkshire county, massachusetts.

Employment
7
Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment
8
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
9
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
10
Center for Living & Working Inc

We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.

Human Services
11
United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc

Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.

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12
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifebridge Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Peoples Pantry. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHospital Systems and Networ…Food Pantries and Meal Prog…Child and Family ServicesSenior Care CommunitiesIndependent Elementary Scho…Community Behavioral Health…Connecticut Trade Associati…Private Membership Clubs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 45 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr12%8%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr20%18%20–35yr12%30%35–55yr18%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr12%6%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr20%18%20–35yr12%38%35–55yr18%33%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
10%
774/7,560

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.

04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 66 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
27/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STOCKBRIDGE LIBRARY — $133,275 · OtherSTOCKBRIDGE LIBRARYCHILDREN'S DENTAL HEALTH PROJECT — $70,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S DENTAL HEALTH PROJECTJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF STAMFORD INC — $70,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF STAMFORD INCCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $59,500 · OtherCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCMIDDLEBURY COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $53,500 · OtherMIDDLEBURY COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDPROJECT MORRY — $46,500 · OtherBERKSHIRE FAMILY YMCA — $43,000 · OtherMASS AUDUBON — $40,000 · Other+35 more — $475,700 · Other+35 moreTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC — $64,500 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER…DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER — $21,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC V…WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $18,500 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S FU…SAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSAINT JOSE…LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $9,000 · Human ServicesLIFEBRIDGE…REGIONAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesREGIONAL Y…+1 more — $3,000 · Human ServicesBERKSHIRE GROWN INC — $41,000 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRE …ROOTS RISING INC — $30,000 · Food & NutritionROOTS RISI…GREENAGERS INC — $26,500 · Food & NutritionGREENAGERS…THE PEOPLES PANTRY — $19,000 · Food & NutritionTHE PEOPLE…BERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC — $15,000 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRES…BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC — $26,000 · EducationLiteracy Network of South Berkshire Inc — $21,500 · EducationMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $12,500 · EducationRITES OF PASSAGE & EMPOWERMENT INC — $3,500 · EducationBERKSHIRE MUSIC SCHOOL INC — $22,800 · Arts & CultureThe Norwalk Symphony Society Inc — $17,000 · Arts & CultureNORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC — $11,500 · Arts & CultureTHE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INC — $10,750 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC — $49,500 · Crime & LegalCLICC Inc — $3,500 · Crime & LegalMARRAKECH INC — $47,500 · Employment
Other$991,975Human Services$134,000Food & Nutrition$131,500Education$63,500Arts & Culture$62,050Crime & Legal$53,000Employment$47,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL HEALTH PROJECT — $70,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF STAMFORD INC — $70,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC — $64,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $59,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC — $49,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMARRAKECH INC — $47,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE GROWN INC — $41,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetROOTS RISING INC — $30,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budget18 DEGREES INC — $27,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGREENAGERS INC — $26,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC — $26,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC — $26,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT INC — $24,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetBERKSHIRE MUSIC SCHOOL INC — $22,800 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetBERKSHIRE GARDEN CENTER INC DBA BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $22,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLiteracy Network of South Berkshire Inc — $21,500 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $21,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER — $21,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERATION PROGRAMS INC — $20,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC — $20,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEOPLES PANTRY — $19,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $18,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetThe Norwalk Symphony Society Inc — $17,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCLASP HOMES INC — $17,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — $14,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC — $13,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $12,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC — $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INC — $10,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC — $10,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMILL RIVER WETLAND COMMITTEE INC — $8,500 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetREGIONAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT BALLET INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCLICC Inc — $3,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRITES OF PASSAGE & EMPOWERMENT INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CHILDREN'S DENTAL HEALTH PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF STAMFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds MARRAKECH INC ↗
  • Who funds BERKSHIRE GROWN INC ↗
  • Who funds ROOTS RISING INC ↗
  • Who funds 18 DEGREES INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENAGERS INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC ↗
  • Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds RAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds BERKSHIRE MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BERKSHIRE GARDEN CENTER INC DBA BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Literacy Network of South Berkshire Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LIBERATION PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PEOPLES PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds CLASP HOMES INC ↗
  • Who funds BERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc ↗
  • Who funds BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY 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.

Berkshire Taconic Com…Fairfield County's Co…The Feigenbaum Founda…Josephine and Louise …Berkshire United Way …Lee Bank Foundation I…Berkshire Bank Founda…The Buchwald Family F…The Near and Far Asso…Donald C McGraw Found…The Pitney Bowes Foun…Peoples United Commun…
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA37.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Berkshire United Way Inc · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · The Buchwald Family Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Peoples United Community 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 Ruth Krauss Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Clasp Homes Inc — 91% of income from government
  • The Kennedy Collective Inc — 79% of income from government
  • 18 Degrees Inc — 60% of income from government
  • Saint Joseph Parenting Center Inc — 51% of income from government
  • The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Clicc Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Railroad Street Youth Project Inc — 45% of income from government
  • Lifebridge Community Services Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Berkshire Grown Inc — 28% of income from government
  • Liberation Programs Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Connecticut Legal Services Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Marrakech Inc — 14% of income from government
  • The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Crisis Center — 10% of income from government
  • The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Roots Rising Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Jewish Family Service of Stamford Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Connecticut Ballet Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Edith Wharton Restoration Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Ruth Krauss Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Ruth Krauss Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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