Kentucky · Nonprofit
HOUSE OF RUTH INC
HOUSE OF RUTH INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,357,955 to it, the largest being JAMES GRAHAM BROWN FOUNDATION INC ($285,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.8M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $8.6M
What House of Ruth Inc does
Mission
House of ruth provides housing support services to individuals and families infected and affected by hiv and aids.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hopwa - served 627 unduplicated clients. Developed housing stability plans with hor staff to establish goals and action steps for securing and maintaining stable housing. Provided emergency financial assistance. Provided supportive housing in rental units owned by community property owners. 37 households were housed, receiving subsidized rent and case management.
$917,474 spentof which $641,000 as grants$32,962 earned by the program41% of program spendingHwh long term housing - supportive housing in 13 scattered-site homes with deed restrictions and no mortgage. These house hiv positive people whose lives are further complicated by homelessness. 14 households with 19 adults and 8 children were housed and received subsidized rent, case management and emergency financial assistance. The unit utilization rate was 71%.
$257,116 spentof which $185,409 as grants$9,238 earned by the program11% of program spendingGlade house - short-term housing (single room occupancy). Residential house with 10 beds. Provides short term housing for up to two years. Services provided include intensive case management, mental health counseling, monthly tarc passes, life skills education, individual and group counseling. 14 clients were served, 6 exited to long term housing, two exited to long term residential drug treatment, two were deceased and 4 remain in sro. Six had an increase in total income. Bed utilization rate was 77%.
$478,275 spentof which $417,539 as grants$17,183 earned by the program21% of program spendingChildren's program - we provide back-to-school assistance including clothing vouchers, backpacks, and school supplies. Case management - we provide treatment planning where clients set their own concrete, achievable goals to address mental, physical, emotional, social,financial, educational, and employment needs. Financial assistance - tarc tickets, rental security deposits, furniture, rent and utility payments, moving expenses, uniforms needed for work or school, and funeral expenses.
$606,247 spentof which $20,269 as grants27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,259,112.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.6M to $8.9M (+147%).
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 93% · 2018 90% · 2019 92% · 2020 59% · 2021 68% · 2022 66% · 2023 70% · 2024 85% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of HOUSE OF RUTH INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Lisa Sutton
Executive director
Board chair
Stephanie Rickert
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $144k → $423k.
4 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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 INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
49% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 29% · 2019 30% · 2020 36% · 2021 20% · 2022 22% · 2023 59% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of HOUSE OF RUTH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
86% of HOUSE OF RUTH INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $217k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HOUSE OF RUTH INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.9M
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 INC
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOUSE OF RUTH INC: 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 INC?
- HOUSE OF RUTH INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,357,955 to it, the largest being JAMES GRAHAM BROWN FOUNDATION INC ($285,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSE OF RUTH INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $1,357,955 in grants to HOUSE OF RUTH INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSE OF RUTH INC?
- JAMES GRAHAM BROWN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $285,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSE OF RUTH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 36 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing