Ohio · Nonprofit
RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC
RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC (Ohio) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,473,729 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,400,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Ruling Our Experiences Inc does
Mission
The corporation's purpose is to (1) provide educational programs and services; (2) engage in research and evaluation, and (3) participate in activities that provide information and increase public awareness of social, emotional, personal and educational issues facing girls.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Rox develops relevant and effective programs and resources to effectively understand and support today's girls. Rox has deepened the public's understanding of the issues impacting girls through producing technical reports, professional development training & workshops, programs and conference presentations. These educational efforts have helped more than 500,000 teachers, counselors, educators and parents and more than 50,000 program participants. The data demonstrates rox's effectiveness: 94% of participants report feeling included at school, 89% can better respond to bullying and 95% learn strategies for online and interpersonal safety. Pre/post assessments show significantly higher confidence levels and healthier and more supportive peer relationships.
$1,775,587 spent$948,243 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,775,587.
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 $2.4M to $3.5M (+49%).
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.
63% of RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% 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
Dr Lisa Hinkelman
Founder/CEO/executive director
Board chair
Nici Workman
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $123k → $1.4M.
11 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 45% · 2019 74% · 2020 44% · 2021 51% · 2022 58% · 2023 42% — diversifying over time.
“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
55% of RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
75% of RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.3M that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like RULING OUR EXPERIENCES 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% 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 RULING OUR EXPERIENCES 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 RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC?
- RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC (Ohio) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,473,729 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,400,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $5,473,729 in grants to RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RULING OUR EXPERIENCES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 40 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