Wisconsin · Private foundation
W E Ruebush Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $92k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations W E Ruebush Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 23 | $89k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $56k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $51k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $67k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $97k | 37% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $109k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $74k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wartburg College | $27,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Luther College | $22,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Florida State University | $18,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Fordham University | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Bucknell University | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Northwestern College | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rhodes College | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Spring Hill College | $10,589 | 4 | 0% |
| Coe College | $10,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Briar Cliff University | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($277k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget W E Ruebush Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust · Council of Independent Colleges · Folds of Honor Foundation · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Willard E and Ella P Thompson Educational Fund · Bestenlehner D and F Educational Tr · Iowa College Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Tulsa Community Foundation · Mahana-Cong Church Scholar Found
How this is measured
About W E Ruebush Foundation
- How much does W E Ruebush Foundation give?
- W E Ruebush Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $91,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does W E Ruebush Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (99%), Human Services (1%).
- Who are W E Ruebush Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wartburg College ($27k), Luther College ($22k), Florida State University ($19k).
- Does W E Ruebush Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does W E Ruebush Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as W E Ruebush Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust, Council of Independent Colleges, Folds of Honor Foundation.
- Where is W E Ruebush Foundation based?
- W E Ruebush Foundation is based in WI.
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