· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k39 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $324k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $634k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Friends of the Louvre | $176,000 |
| Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $107,768 |
| Charities Aid Foundation | $75,000 |
| The Society of the Four Arts | $75,000 |
| The Phillips Collection | $50,000 |
| Music Associates of Aspen | $49,379 |
| Salisbury School | $25,000 |
| The National World War II Museum | $25,000 |
| The Princes Foundation America | $25,000 |
| Palm Beach Zoo and Conservation Society | $20,000 |
| Hollins University | $20,000 |
| Christ Church Georgetown | $20,000 |
| Stratford Hall | $18,231 |
| Bishop John T Walker School for Boys | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
98 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 13 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TPTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION8× · 2017–2024 · $706k · revenue +60%
- TPThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $536k · revenue +279%
- SHSTRATFORD HALL8× · 2017–2024 · $306k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $100k
- NGNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +11%
- TGThe Great Steward of Scotland's Dumfries House Trustone grant, 2019 · $62k
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.
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.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
The purpose of the organization is to maintain in the city of alexandria, virginia, a suitable memorial temple to george washington, the mason, which expresses in durability and beauty, the exalted and undying esteem of the freemasons of…
The mission of the society is to advance the knowledge and understanding of architecture, design, landscape and urbanism worldwide among scholars, professionals in allied fields (including architecture, historic preservation and planning)…
The museum of the american revolution uncovers and shares compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked america's ongoing experiment in liberty, equality and self-government.
The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…
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 preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Champion equitable and impactful museums by connecting people, fostering learning and community, and nurturing museum excellence.
How this is measured
83 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. 83 of the 166 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PRINCE OF WALES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD HALL ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds USAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds VA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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