How much does Alan M & Mildred S Ravenal Foundation give?

Alan M & Mildred S Ravenal Foundation reported 70 grants totaling $124,186 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 59 and 116 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Alan M & Mildred S Ravenal Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Health (15%), Education (8%).

Who are Alan M & Mildred S Ravenal Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New York Women in Film & Television Inc ($78k), James Renwick Alliance ($50k), The Fabric Workshop and Museum ($42k).

Does Alan M & Mildred S Ravenal Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Alan M & Mildred S Ravenal Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Where is Alan M & Mildred S Ravenal Foundation based?

Alan M & Mildred S Ravenal Foundation is based in MD.

Alan M & Mildred S Ravenal Foundation

Alan M & Mildred S Ravenal Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$124k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$11k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$555kHealth$169kEducation$96kEnvironment$62kCivil Rights$52kInternational$34kPublic Benefit$32kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0

02FY2025 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k68 grants · $103k
$10k–50k2 grants · $21k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM AND TV (NYWIFT)	$11,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D	$10,000
JAMES RENWICK ALLIANCE	$8,250
FABRIC WORKSHOP AND MUSEUM	$5,000
CRAFT IN AMERICA	$5,000
CHICKEN AND EGG PICTURES	$5,000
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM	$3,550
LAB FOR ICON AND IDIOM	$3,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION	$2,500
AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL	$2,500
BLUEPRINT FOR ACCOUNTABILITY	$2,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA	$2,500
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (ACLU)	$2,500
ASSOCIATION OF ART MUSEUM CURATORS	$2,500
REEVALUATION COUNSELING FOUNDATION	$2,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$947k · 141 repeat orgs$199k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

141

179

Total granted

$947k

$152k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+22%

Still filing today

65%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureInternationalEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

JR
James Renwick Alliance
8× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +107%
CE
CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +166%
GRUB STREET INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +68%

Funded once

IF
IFP FISCAL SPONSORSHIP CO GOTHAM FILM AND MEDIA INSTITUTE
one grant, 2021 · $6k
NY
NEW YORK MEDIA INITIATIVE
one grant, 2022 · $5k
RA
REALIZE ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
one grant, 2018 · $5k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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United States Naval Institute

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.

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Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture

The Paris Review Foundation Inc

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,…

Education

United States Artists Inc

To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.

Arts & Culture

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

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…

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American Gas Association

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…

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Npr Foundation

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…

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Open Markets Institute

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.

Education

Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture

Center for Arms Control and

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.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; 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.

04the grantee network

199 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

196/199

Grantees still filing

142/199

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$628,200Arts & Culture$280,465Employment$54,000Education$50,200Environment$40,850International$30,224Health$25,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Rosenfeld Rumford Steckler Family Foundation IncMD26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alan M & Mildred S Ravenal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alan M & Mildred S Ravenal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

20get no government money at all

31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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