· Private foundation
Alan M & Mildred S Ravenal Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k68 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM AND TV (NYWIFT) | $11,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $10,000 |
| JAMES RENWICK ALLIANCE | $8,250 |
| CHICKEN AND EGG PICTURES | $5,000 |
| FABRIC WORKSHOP AND MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| CRAFT IN AMERICA | $5,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM | $3,550 |
| LAB FOR ICON AND IDIOM | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $2,500 |
| BLUEPRINT FOR ACCOUNTABILITY | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (ACLU) | $2,500 |
| ASSOCIATION OF ART MUSEUM CURATORS | $2,500 |
| REEVALUATION COUNSELING FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
141 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 94 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- JRJames Renwick Alliance8× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +38%
- CECHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +166%
GRUB STREET INC8× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- IFIFP FISCAL SPONSORSHIP CO GOTHAM FILM AND MEDIA INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $6k
- FTFROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONone grant, 2018 · $5k
- RAREALIZE ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENTone grant, 2018 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st century, thereby retaining its focus on nuclear weapons but expanding to include other present emerging security threats.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Harvardwood. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
199 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 199 of the 346 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds James Renwick Alliance ↗
- Who funds The Fabric Workshop and Museum ↗
- Who funds CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC ↗
- Who funds GRUB STREET INC ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC ↗
- Who funds Seeing Place Theater Inc ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds RHINEBECK WRITERS RETREAT INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds AVALON FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Rosenfeld Rumford Steckler Family Foundation Inc · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · The Llandaff Family Trust · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Richard J and Ellen G Bodorff Charitable Foundation Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · The Wyman Family Foundation Inc · Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc · Wagner Foundation · The Ford Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alan M & Mildred S Ravenal Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bethesda Cares Inc — 100% of income from government
- Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc — 100% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Cambridge Historical Society — 11% of income from government
- Sultana Education Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Avalon Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- Academy Art Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc — 4% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boston Art Review Inc — 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Arts for the Aging Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Book Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Grub Street Inc — 2% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Buckingham Browne & Nichols School — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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