Ohio · Nonprofit
JUDY & JOHN RUTHVEN FOUNDATION INC
JUDY & JOHN RUTHVEN FOUNDATION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100 to it, the largest being THE ALPAUGH FOUNDATION ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $100
- Net assets
- $108k
What Judy & John Ruthven Foundation Inc does
Mission
JUDY AND JOHN RUTHVEN FOUNDATION REVISED MISSION STATEMENT- The Foundation is organized and shall at all times be operated to promote public appreciation of wildlife and art and history. The Foundation will maintain an art studio that will contain original and duplicate works created by and over the long and distinguished career of John A. Ruthven, a world-renowned wildlife artist. The studio will be open to the public for educational purposes. In addition, the Foundation will make grants to various organizations to promote the study of art and history, related eductional initiatives, and historic preservation, provided that the Foundation will make grants only to organizations which qualify as exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3) of Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and which are organized and operated exclusively for charitable or educational purposes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Program support
$2,350 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $2,350.
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 2020 to 2021, from $307k to $246k (−20%).
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.
9% of JUDY & JOHN RUTHVEN FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of JUDY & JOHN RUTHVEN FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Where its funders are
100% of JUDY & JOHN RUTHVEN FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
JUDY & JOHN RUTHVEN FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 68% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JUDY & JOHN RUTHVEN FOUNDATION INC?
- JUDY & JOHN RUTHVEN FOUNDATION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100 to it, the largest being THE ALPAUGH FOUNDATION ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JUDY & JOHN RUTHVEN FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100 in grants to JUDY & JOHN RUTHVEN FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of JUDY & JOHN RUTHVEN FOUNDATION INC?
- THE ALPAUGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUDY & JOHN RUTHVEN FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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