Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
HOUSE OF RUTH
HOUSE OF RUTH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 208 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,659,778 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,348,500). 127 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 208
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $23M
What House of Ruth does
Mission
House of Ruth helps women, children and families in greatest need and with very limited resources to build safe, stable lives and achieve their highest potential. Serving the district of columbia since 1976, House of Ruth provides vulnerable, abused women and children with nurturing housing and comprehensive supportive services. The women are dealing with a variety of challenges, such as domestic violence, homelessness, life-long histories of abuse, mental health issues, substance abuse recovery and deep poverty. More than 1,000 women and children are assisted annually.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing and services for women - comprehensive supportive services are provided to up to 127 women at a time at three residential programs as well as scattered site apartments throughout the district of columbia. Services concentrate on helping the women build the skills and capabilities to function in their daily lives, stabilize any mental illness, secure recovery from addiction, and avoid abusive relationships. During the day, the women are involved in education, training, after care or volunteer programs or are employed.
$4,578,289 spent$3,336,737 earned by the program31% of program spendingHousing and services for families - House of Ruth provides housing enriched with comprehensive supportive services to families who are homeless and abused, serving up to 78 families and more than 200 children at any given time. Housing and services are provided at four apartment buildings as well as scattered site apartments throughout the district of columbia. The mothers pursue an active schedule of employment or education or training, mental health and/or addiction recovery work, positive child-rearing and learning daily living skills. The children attend school or day care, after school enrichment programs and receive intensive counseling and developmental services.
$4,417,918 spent$3,452,568 earned by the program30% of program spendingCommunity-based services - up to 73 homeless children at a time benefit from the therapeutic developmental services provided at kidspace child and family development center. Supportive services are also provided to the parents to help them become engaged in their child's education in positive ways and to address any challenges (homelessness, mental health issues, domestic violence, addiction) that they may be facing. The domestic violence support center provides outreach and psychotherapy to women and their children who are dealing with or recovering from domestic violence. The center serves approximately 500 clients annually.
$5,889,073 spent$2,306,558 earned by the program40% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,885,280.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $11M to $20M (+78%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 43% · 2018 41% · 2019 48% · 2020 47% · 2021 40% · 2022 50% · 2023 51% · 2024 56% · 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of HOUSE OF RUTH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Sandra Jackson
CEO/president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 42 funders to 96 funders, grant income rose $800k → $2.4M.
23 of 208 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HOUSE OF RUTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 208 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
HOUSE OF RUTH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
61% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HOUSE OF RUTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 25% · 2019 52% · 2020 11% · 2021 10% · 2022 16% · 2023 18% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
58% of HOUSE OF RUTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
HOUSE OF RUTH draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 28 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
HOUSE OF RUTH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 488 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding HOUSE OF RUTH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.2M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$10.8M
- Department of Justice$400k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HOUSE OF RUTH
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOUSE OF RUTH: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH?
- HOUSE OF RUTH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 208 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,659,778 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,348,500). 127 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSE OF RUTH have?
- IRS filings report 208 organizations giving $15,659,778 in grants to HOUSE OF RUTH, 127 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSE OF RUTH?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,348,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSE OF RUTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 208 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing