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The Rutledge Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$5.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$18MArts & Culture$3.0MPhilanthropy$750kScience & Tech$625kHealth$600kYouth Development$595kHuman Services$26kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $627k
  • $250k+10 grants · $5.1M
$85,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$45M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 96% of reported assets are held in Charter.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$300,000
THE VILLAGE OF FPC$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
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $200k → 17%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $150k → 20%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $100k → 20%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $100k → 20%THE VILLAGE OF FPC: $874k → 12%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $25k → 20%THE VILLAGE OF FPC: $816k → 12%THE VILLAGE OF FPC: $300k → 12%THE VILLAGE OF FPC: $300k → 12%THE VILLAGE OF FPC: $250k → 12%THE VILLAGE OF FPC: $250k → 12%THE VILLAGE OF FPC: $10k → 12%THE VILLAGE OF FPC: $2k → 12%THE VILLAGE OF FPC: $1k → 12%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

IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
SC
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25M · 21 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
10

Total granted

$25M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+39%

Still filing today

76%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $459k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • VO
    VILLAGE OF FPC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +40% · 74% of their budget
  • RS
    RENBROOK SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +34%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    2× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • SM
    SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M
  • CU
    CALIFORNIA UNIVERSIT OF PA
    one grant, 2019 · $645k
  • FO
    FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Manhattanville University

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

Education
3
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
4
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
5
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
6
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
7
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
8
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
10
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
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethel Walker School Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 36 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PA: $6,490,334 · OtherCALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PAIndividual grant recipient: $3,050,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY: $1,500,000 · OtherSMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORYIndividual grant recipient: $1,350,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE FOUNDATION FOR CAO: $750,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA UNIVERSIT OF PA: $644,945 · Other+11 more: $719,760 · OtherMCEIVR INC: $2,655,000 · EducationMCEIVR INCRENBROOK SCHOOL INC: $2,165,000 · EducationRENBROOK SCHOOL INCETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $1,286,000 · EducationETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INCTRIO NEW COLLEGE NETWORK INC: $900,000 · EducationTRIO NEW COLLEGE NETWORK INC+7 more: $805,500 · Education+7 moreVILLAGE OF FPC: $2,802,960 · Human ServicesVILLAGE OF FP…YOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC: $575,000 · Human ServicesYOU GOTTA BEL…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $2,125,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $9,000 · Arts & CultureHORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC: $260,000 · Youth DevelopmentGaylord Hospital INC: $150,000 · HealthNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $50,000 · Philanthropy
Other$14,505,039Education$7,811,500Human Services$3,377,960Arts & Culture$2,134,000Youth Development$260,000Health$150,000Philanthropy$50,000

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 budgetVILLAGE OF FPC: $2,802,960 over 4y, 74% of budgetMCEIVR INC: $2,655,000 over 6y, 70% of budgetRENBROOK SCHOOL INC: $2,165,000 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $2,125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $1,286,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTRIO NEW COLLEGE NETWORK INC: $900,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetYOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC: $575,000 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetHORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC: $260,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $250,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetREADYCT INC: $200,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetGRACE ACADEMY: $185,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetGaylord Hospital INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHorace Mann School: $96,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK STATE ARCHIVES PARTNERSHIP TR: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJIMMY LEE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $4,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetPAN-AFRICAN ACADEMY OF CHRISTIAN SURGEONS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREHER HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $260 over 1y, 4.3% 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.

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.

Hartford Foundation f…Liberty Bank Foundati…The Ayco Charitable F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…
Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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