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The Ruthmarc Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Ruthmarc Foundation Inc

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.

$359k
Granted FY2026still arriving
12
Grants FY2026still arriving
8
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.5MHealth$666kPublic Benefit$412kCivil Rights$291kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kCommunity Improvement$18kArts & Culture$9k
02FY2026 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $287k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
$27,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$848k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$72,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC PHILANTHROPY INSTITUTE$36,000
MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$36,000
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE$36,000
REASON FOUNDATION$30,600
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$27,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$27,000
MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$25,000
CATO INSTITUTE$20,700
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$18,000
ACHIEVE MIAMI$18,000
STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY$12,600
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100k → 22%REASON FOUNDATION: $31k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $59k → 15%BROTHERS FOR LIFE: $27k → 9%PRINCETON MEDICAL CENTER FND: $77k → 11%SEEDS ACCESS: $72k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $65k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100k → 22%REASON FOUNDATION: $31k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $27k → 15%PRINCETON MEDICAL CENTER FND: $27k → 11%SEEDS ACCESS: $72k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $27k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $72k → 22%REASON FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $25k → 15%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $27k → 11%SEEDS ACCESS: $68k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $25k → 8%REASON FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%STACY JOY GOODMAN FOUNDATION: $54k → 15%PRINCETON MEDICAL CENTER FND: $27k → 11%NJ SEEDS: $65k → 16%REASON FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYS FND: $25k → 11%SEEDS ACCESS: $65k → 16%REASON FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYS FND: $25k → 11%NJ SEEDS: $65k → 16%REASON FOUNDATION: $27k → 14%SEEDS ACCESS: $65k → 16%NJ SEEDS: $63k → 16%MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%NJ SEEDS: $60k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $36k → 14%MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%NJ SEEDS: $50k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $36k → 14%MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $36k → 15%NJ SEEDS: $34k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $36k → 14%MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%PRINCETON FIRE DEPARTMENT: $28k → 11%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $36k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $36k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $36k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $36k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
DC
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 20 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2026, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
4

Total granted

$2.7M
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+50%

Still filing today

55%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationHealthPublic BenefitInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • TR
    THE REASON FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2026 · $247k · revenue +80%
  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    6× · 2021–2026 · $236k · revenue +36%
  • CI
    CATO INSTITUTE
    9× · 2017–2026 · $162k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • SJ
    STACY JOY GOODMAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $54k
  • Trustees of Tufts Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +50%
  • CC
    CONSCIOUS CAPITALISM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue -6%
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.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
5
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
8
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
11
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Princeton University; the most unlike its peers is Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad. 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

16 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. 16 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $353,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $342,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $327,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICEPRINCETON MEDICAL CENTER FND: $203,000 · OtherPRINCETON MEDICAL CENTER FNDART OF PROBLEM SOLVING: $67,000 · OtherSTACY JOY GOODMAN FOUNDATION: $54,000 · OtherPRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYS FND: $50,000 · Other+4 more: $90,200 · Other+4 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $290,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSY…THE REASON FOUNDATION: $247,000 · EducationTHE REASON FOUNDATIONMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $135,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technolog…University of Miami: $111,400 · EducationUniversity of MiamiSTUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC: $102,800 · EducationSTUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INCACHIEVE MIAMI INC: $64,800 · EducationACHIEVE MIAMI INCThe Trustees of Princeton University: $47,000 · Education+2 more: $43,000 · EducationMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $236,000 · HealthMOUNT SINAI MEDIC…THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $133,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLI…DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $130,800 · HealthDRUG POLICY ALLIA…+1 more: $10,400 · HealthCATO INSTITUTE: $162,200 · Public BenefitBrothers for Life: $36,000 · Arts & CultureCONSCIOUS CAPITALISM INC: $18,000 · International
Other$1,486,600Education$1,041,000Health$510,200Public Benefit$162,200Arts & Culture$36,000International$18,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $290,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $247,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $236,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $162,200 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $135,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $133,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $130,800 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $111,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC: $102,800 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetACHIEVE MIAMI INC: $64,800 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $47,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSCIOUS CAPITALISM INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPRINCETON FIRST AID AND RESCUE SQUAD: $10,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVE MIAMI INC ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds CONSCIOUS CAPITALISM INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds PRINCETON FIRST AID AND RESCUE SQUAD ↗

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.

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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 Ruthmarc Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ruthmarc Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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