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The Ruvo Family Foundation at a glance

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The Ruvo Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$605k
Granted FY2024still arriving
77
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$3.3MEducation$1.9MReligion$1.4MCommunity Improvement$150kHuman Services$103kArts & Culture$78kFood & Nutrition$28kPublic Benefit$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k67 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $430k
$840
Median grant
20
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Glenbrook Underground Inc$150,000
Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas$100,000
Prostate Cancer Foundation$100,000
St Joseph Husband of Mary Roman Catholic Church$79,950
Mayor's Fund for Las Vegas$25,000
Shrine of the Most Holy Redeemer$15,000
Our Lady of Tahoe Catholic Church$14,500
Nature Conservancy$12,500
St Monica Catholic Community$11,550
St Patrick's Cathedral$11,000
Keep Memory Alive$9,000
St Jude's Childrens Research Hospital$7,500
Diocese of Reno$5,000
Make a Wish Foundation$5,000
Italian American Club of Southern NV Foundation$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%Wounded Warrior Project: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $800 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $500 → 14%American Foundation for the Blind: $600 → 7%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $300 → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $300 → 14%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $300 → 7%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $300 → 7%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $300 → 7%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $300 → 7%American Foundation for the Blind: $300 → 7%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $300 → 7%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $647 → 13%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $600 → 13%Las Vegas Rescue Mission: $600 → 13%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 13%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $300 → 13%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $300 → 13%Las Vegas Rescue Mission: $300 → 13%Children's Institute: $10k → 14%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $300 → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $17k → 13%Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada: $6k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $6k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $5k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $5k → 13%Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada: $5k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $3k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $500 → 13%St Jude's Ranch for Children: $600 → 13%St Jude's Ranch for Children: $300 → 13%ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $300 → 13%ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $300 → 13%ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $300 → 13%ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $300 → 13%ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $300 → 13%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

AK
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
GA
TX
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.3M · 82 repeat orgs$728k to everyone else

82 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
61

Total granted

$6.3M
$537k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+22%

Still filing today

46%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationInternationalOther
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

  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +57%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +97%
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • PF
    Priests for Life
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • SN
    Sierra Nevada College
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -100%
  • FC
    Faster Cures
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
5
American Neuromuscular Foundation

The american neuromuscular foundation was established to improve the quality of care for people with disorders of skeletal muscle, neuromuscular function, and central and peripheral nervous systems through the promotion of research and…

Health
6
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
7
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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8
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
9
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
10
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
11
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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12
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arthritis Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Stillpoint Center for Spiritual Development. 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

73 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. 73 of the 160 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/73
Grantees still filing
43/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $1,638,700 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONKEEP MEMORY ALIVE: $1,371,650 · OtherKEEP MEMORY ALIVECatholic Diocese of Las Vegas: $620,000 · OtherCatholic Diocese of Las VegasSt Joseph Husband of Mary Roman Catholic Church: $276,250 · OtherSt Joseph Husband of Mary Roman Catholic Church+103 more: $1,184,547 · Other+103 morePROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,496,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATI…+7 more: $22,050 · PhilanthropyGLENBROOK UNDERGROUND INC: $150,000 · Community ImprovementCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $47,800 · Human ServicesSELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,900 · Human ServicesLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $3,547 · Human Services+3 more: $6,600 · Human ServicesBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $13,900 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $12,100 · HealthGrant A Gift Autism Foundation: $10,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $8,000 · HealthStarkey Hearing Foundation: $5,000 · HealthTHE ANEURYSM FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthTHE HOUSE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $4,700 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,800 · Health+12 more: $24,050 · HealthChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $50,000 · EducationHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $20,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationHORATIO ALGER ENDOWMENT FUND: $10,000 · EducationThe School for Ethics and Global Leadership: $3,500 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationNEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureGLENBROOK FIREWORKS INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTHUNDERBIRD LODGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $3,000 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE FOR YOUNG DRAMATIC VOICES INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureNEVADA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $1,100 · Arts & Culture
Other$5,091,147Philanthropy$1,518,050Community Improvement$150,000Human Services$96,847Health$96,550Education$94,500Arts & Culture$35,600

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,496,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGLENBROOK UNDERGROUND INC: $150,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSierra Nevada College: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $47,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $13,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $12,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrant A Gift Autism Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ENDOWMENT FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGLENBROOK FIREWORKS INC: $7,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $5,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetStarkey Hearing Foundation: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOUSE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $4,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $3,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Nevada: $3,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $3,547 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe School for Ethics and Global Leadership: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHUNDERBIRD LODGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRIESTS FOR LIFE: $2,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $2,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $2,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $2,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $2,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $2,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $2,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN INC: $2,400 over 7y, 88% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,400 over 8y, 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 PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GLENBROOK UNDERGROUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Sierra Nevada College ↗
  • Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Grant A Gift Autism Foundation ↗

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.

Mgm Resorts FoundationNV Energy Charitable …Canarelli Family Foun…Wynn Resorts Foundati…Engelstad Family Foun…The Boyd Family Found…Vegas Golden Knights …United Way of Souther…Nevada Community Foun…America's CharitiesShulman Family Founda…AJ Koval Family Found…
Mgm Resorts FoundationNV21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mgm Resorts Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Canarelli Family Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · The Boyd Family Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · United Way of Southern Nevada · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · America's Charities · Shulman Family Foundation Fka Alex Shulman Family Foundation · AJ Koval Family Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
10report 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 160 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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