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The Rutkowski Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Rutkowski Family 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.

$181k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$417kPublic Safety & Disaster$119kEnvironment$106kHealth$98kInternational$42kPhilanthropy$31kFood & Nutrition$11kRecreation & Sports$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$700k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UVM LARNER COLLEGE$50,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL$20,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$20,000
ADIRONDACK COUNCIL$15,000
YOSEMITE CONSERVANCY$10,000
THE SONOMA LAND TRUST$5,000
UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$3,000
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$2,000
FRIENDS OF LYON MO$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$2,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY$2,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–23, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $20k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $20k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $1k → 14%THE AMERICAN RED CROSS: $28k → 14%THE AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%THE AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 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

VT
MT
MI
NY
PA
CT
CA
WV
VA
AZ
KS
DC
GA
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$649k · 24 repeat orgs$201k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against -20% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
19

Total granted

$649k
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
-20%

Still filing today

63%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
EnvironmentInternationalRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2018–2023 · $119k · revenue +9%
  • GI
    GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL NEW YORK
    4× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +6%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $37k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT FD
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • GI
    GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOUNDAT
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
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
5
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
6
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
7
African Parks Foundation of America

To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…

Recreation & Sports
8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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9
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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10
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Forest Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

25 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. 25 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT - SCHOOL: $225,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT - SCHOOLUVM LARNER COLLEGE: $50,000 · OtherUVM LARNER COLLEGECURE CMD: $37,000 · OtherCURE CMDIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT FD: $25,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $20,000 · OtherGERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOUNDAT: $20,000 · Other+28 more: $102,225 · Other+28 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $119,401 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL NEW YORK: $85,000 · Arts & CultureGERMAN INTE…+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureTHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC: $19,750 · EnvironmentSONOMA LAND TRUST: $11,525 · EnvironmentAmerican Forests: $7,000 · EnvironmentCHATEAUGAY LAKE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $23,100 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $6,350 · International+2 more: $1,125 · InternationalPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $36,500 · HealthFRESH AIR FUND: $10,500 · Recreation & SportsYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $4,500 · EducationTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Education
Other$504,225Human Services$119,401Arts & Culture$85,500Environment$50,275International$38,075Health$36,500Recreation & Sports$25,500Education$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $119,401 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL NEW YORK: $85,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $36,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $23,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC: $19,750 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $14,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSONOMA LAND TRUST: $11,525 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $10,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $9,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Forests: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $6,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHATEAUGAY LAKE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetNATURAL HERITAGE TRUST: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC: $4,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE: $125 over 1y, 0.0% 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SONOMA LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
  • Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American Forests ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds CHATEAUGAY LAKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
  • Who funds SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.

    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 55 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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