Maine · Nonprofit
RUTH'S REUSABLE RESOURCES
RUTH'S REUSABLE RESOURCES (Maine) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,854 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($26,636). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $955k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $75k
- Net assets
- $826k
What Ruth's Reusable Resources does
Mission
Ruth's Reusable Resources's ("3rs") mission is to ensure that all students, from pre-k through high school, have the basic supplies and creative tools for literacy, steam, and health education through the environmentally-conscious redistribution of donated business supplies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Ruth's Reusable Resources (3rs) continued to accomplish its mission to provide school children across maine and new hampshire with the supplies and materials necessary to achieve a quality education. Through its efforts and hard work, 3rs redirected hundreds of binders, notebooks, computer and I.t. Equipment, and other supplies away from landfills and into the hands of students and teachers. 3rs therefore accomplishes multiple critical objectives simultaneously: the organization bolsters the resources and capital available to school systems; lessens the overall financial burden placed on teachers and schools and parents; and promotes environmental stewardship.(continued on schedule o)
$840,242 spent$354,710 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $840,242.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.2M to $1.1M (−8%).
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: 2021 3% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of RUTH'S REUSABLE RESOURCES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Ruth Libby
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $28k → $17k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 RUTH'S REUSABLE RESOURCES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 13 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
RUTH'S REUSABLE RESOURCES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% 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 RUTH'S REUSABLE RESOURCES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 100% · 2022 80% · 2023 99% — 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
20% of RUTH'S REUSABLE RESOURCES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% 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
RUTH'S REUSABLE RESOURCES draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
RUTH'S REUSABLE RESOURCES has grown faster than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like RUTH'S REUSABLE RESOURCES
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 RUTH'S REUSABLE RESOURCES: 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 RUTH'S REUSABLE RESOURCES?
- RUTH'S REUSABLE RESOURCES (Maine) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,854 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($26,636). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RUTH'S REUSABLE RESOURCES have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $74,854 in grants to RUTH'S REUSABLE RESOURCES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RUTH'S REUSABLE RESOURCES?
- THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $26,636 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RUTH'S REUSABLE RESOURCES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 13 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