Virginia · Private foundation
Thomas Rutherfoord 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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 64
- Grants FY2024
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $176,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 46 to 66
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $20M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $262k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 63 | $986k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $744k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 54 | $920k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 53 | $867k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 66 | $791k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $598k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 58 | $839k | 40% |
| FY2017 | 46 | $914k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Phillips Collection | $705,723 | 8 | 1% |
| The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc | $536,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Prince of Wales Foundation | $502,510 | 3 | 3% |
| Stratford Hall | $305,959 | 8 | 8% |
| The Society of the Four Arts Inc | $303,034 | 8 | 0% |
| Hollins University Corporation | $271,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Salisbury School Inc | $261,410 | 7 | 0% |
| Music Associates of Aspen Inc | $238,079 | 5 | 0% |
| American Friends of the Louvre Inc | $217,520 | 6 | 2% |
| Christ Church Parish of Georgetown | $120,000 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 87 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 77 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 80 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Principato Family Foundation Inc · Porter Family Charitable Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Patricia E & John D Bassett III Foundation · The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund · Laura M and Peter T Grauer Foundation · Sachiko Kuno Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Maurice B Tobin Family Foundation · The Matz Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation
- How much does Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation give?
- Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation reported 64 grants totaling $1,060,778 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 66 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Philanthropy (16%), Education (15%).
- Who are Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Phillips Collection ($706k), The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ($536k), The Prince of Wales Foundation ($503k).
- Does Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Principato Family Foundation Inc, Porter Family Charitable Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation.
- Where is Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation based?
- Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation is based in VA.
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