· Private foundation
The Ruth Turner Fund 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SISTERHOOD IS GLOBAL INSTITUTE INC | $35,000 |
| COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC | $35,000 |
| FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC | $30,000 |
| RIVERDALE SENIOR SERVICES INC | $30,000 |
| BUSINESS & HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCE CENTRE US LTD | $25,000 |
| THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR LENOX AND TILDEN | $15,000 |
| GIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC | $15,000 |
| NEIGHBORS LINK CORP | $15,000 |
| NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| FUND FOR WOMENS EQUALITY INC | $10,000 |
| WOMENS MEDIA CENTER | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $265k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $275k · revenue +95%- FHFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +119%
- FFFUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +5%
Funded once
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.
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.
The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.
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.
Our mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women's foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.
To advocate for the rights of women in all areas of society based on gender, race, ethnicity, age, economic status and sexual orientation.
Women first invests in grassroots initiatives driven by women in developing economies that sustainably advance their lives.
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…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERHOOD IS GLOBAL INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS LINK CORP ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Coalition Against Trafficking In Women ↗
- Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCE CENTRE ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMENS MEDIA CENTER INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ruth Turner Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ruth Turner Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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