· Private foundation
Thomas A & Sharon K Ruder Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MATER DEI STUDENT INV | $50,000 |
| HANOVER COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| EVSC FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| EVSC FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ST VINCENT EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $10,000 |
| ARK CRISIS CENTER | $10,000 |
| VOICES INCORP | $4,000 |
| WESSELMAN PARK NATURE SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| USI FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| EVANSVILLE JUNIOR FOOTBALL | $1,500 |
| IU FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| VANDERBURGH HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| UE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL | $500 |
| ALTRUSA INTERNATIONAL | $500 |
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, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- HCHanover College6× · 2020–2025 · $296k · revenue +62%
- EFEVSC FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $122k · revenue +97%
- ITIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- SFSTUDENT FINANCIAL AID ASSOone grant, 2021 · $50k
- EAEVANSVILLE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -3%
- SFSTUDENT FINANCIAL AID ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue -807%
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.
The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…
The foundation's mission is to secure and preserve private resources for the betterment of indiana state university and its students, while providing donors with opportunities to witness and experience the results of their philanthropy.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
See Disclosure Above.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.
The virginia athletics foundation, through its fund-raising efforts, strives to support a preeminent intercollegiate athletics program at the university of virginia by providing student-athletes theopportunity to achieve academic and…
Promote business growth and activities in evansville, indiana.
Ohio valley university's mission is to transform lives in a christ-centered academic community that integrates higher learning, biblical faith, and service to god and humanity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evsc Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Big Blue Boosters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 50 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 Hanover College ↗
- Who funds EVSC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Stifel Charitable Inc ↗
- Who funds EVANSVILLE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT FINANCIAL AID ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
- Who funds TRI-STATE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds EVANSVILLE JUNIOR FOOTBALL LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Wesselman Nature Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Urban Seeds Inc ↗
- Who funds VOICES INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE OF EVANSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds VANDERBURGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO TRACE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #156 ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIG BLUE BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
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: Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Evansville Endowment Fund Inc · Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc · Koch Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Welborn Baptist Foundation Inc · Bussing-Koch Foundation Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · The Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third · James R Duncan Trust Uw Fifth Third · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment 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 Thomas A & Sharon K Ruder 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.