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The Ruth Turner Fund Inc
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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SISTERHOOD IS GLOBAL INSTITUTE | $90,000 |
| COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $35,000 |
| FRONTLINE WOMEN'S FUND | $35,000 |
| FOUNTAIN HOUSE | $30,000 |
| RIVERDALE SENIOR SERVICES | $30,000 |
| BUSINESS & HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| COALITION AGAINST TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN | $20,000 |
| GIRLS EDUCATION & MENTORING SERVICES | $15,000 |
| NEIGHBORS LINK | $15,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY | $10,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S MEDIA CENTER | $5,000 |
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, $220k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +75% since the first grant, against -26% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +95%- FHFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +119%
- FFFUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- BABUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCE CENTREone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -26%
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 center for the women of new york helps women overcome financial, violence,social, wellness, and legal issues by raising awareness and advocating for full gender equality for women.
To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…
Wecnyc builds unity and power among communities of diverse immigrant women through education, collective support, direct services and practicing civic engagement.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
Womankind uses the multidimensionality of its asian heritage to work alongside survivors of gender-based violence as they build a path to healing.
To advocate for the rights of women in all areas of society based on gender, race, ethnicity, age, economic status and sexual orientation.
Women deliver is a global feminist advocacy organization with a clear mission: to ensure that every self-identifying girl and woman has control over her body and life. see organization's full mission statement in schedule o.
Founded in 1995 wfpg works to expand the foreign policy dialogue across policital divides and generations and to support women at every stake of their careers. as champions of womens leadership we are proud of our role in expanding the…
To achieve legal and systematic change that addresses violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world.
Women in global health (wgh) is a global movement and organization that brings together all genders and backgrounds to achieve gender equality in global health leadership.
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Educational and Mentoring Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Riverdale Senior Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 23 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 COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS LINK CORP ↗
- Who funds SISTERHOOD IS GLOBAL INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Coalition Against Trafficking In Women ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCE CENTRE ↗
- Who funds THE WOMENS MEDIA CENTER 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: The Ford Foundation · Inmaat Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Novo Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Ruth Turner Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% 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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