· Private foundation
The Rutledge Family Foundation
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $627k
- $250k+10 grants · $5.1M
Anchored by a single position — about 96% of reported assets are held in Charter.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PA | $1,000,000 |
| THE VILLAGE OF FPC | $874,260 |
| CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PA | $715,225 |
| Smithsonian Institute | $600,000 |
| HORIZONS AT THE ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL | $400,000 |
| GAYLORD SPECIALTY HEALTHCARE | $400,000 |
| THE VILLAGE OF FPC | $300,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300,000 |
| TRIO NEW COLLEGE NETWORK | $300,000 |
| CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PA | $250,000 |
| YOU GOTTA BELIEVE | $200,000 |
| MCEIVR INC | $175,000 |
| Grace Academy Inc | $85,000 |
| HORIZONS AT THE ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL | $67,000 |
| Nicklaus Childrens Health Care Foundation Inc | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 17% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $459k 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
- VOVILLAGE OF FPC4× · 2021–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +40% · 74% of their budget
- RSRENBROOK SCHOOL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +34%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION2× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +25%
Funded once
- SMSMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORYone grant, 2021 · $1.5M
- CUCALIFORNIA UNIVERSIT OF PAone grant, 2019 · $645k
- FFFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +103%
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.
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All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
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Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethel Walker School Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Museum of the Moving Image. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 36 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 VILLAGE OF FPC ↗
- Who funds MCEIVR INC ↗
- Who funds RENBROOK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TRIO NEW COLLEGE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds YOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds READYCT INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Gaylord Hospital INC ↗
- Who funds Horace Mann School ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STATE ARCHIVES PARTNERSHIP TR ↗
- Who funds JIMMY LEE SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds PAN-AFRICAN ACADEMY OF CHRISTIAN SURGEONS ↗
- Who funds DREHER HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Rutledge Family Foundation 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.
- Readyct Inc — 61% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc — 6% of income from government
- Trio New College Network Inc — 2% 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.