· Private foundation
Dan and Gwen Ramras Charitable Trust Dated 5/17/04
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of DAN AND GWEN RAMRAS CHARITABLE TRUST DATED 5/17/04’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $163k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $45,000 |
| FAIRBANKS TENNIS ASSOCIATION- FTA | $40,000 |
| CONGREGATION OF HATZAFON | $18,000 |
| FAIRBANKS RESCUE MISSION | $15,000 |
| RCPC | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA (WM BB FUND) | $10,000 |
| RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| THE BREAST CANCER DETECTION CENTER | $10,000 |
| FTA ENDOWMENT FUND | $5,000 |
| SHELTER FROM THE STORM | $5,000 |
| FAIRBANKS SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| BREAD LINE INC | $5,000 |
| MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH (BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION) | $1,000 |
| CSPINUTRITION | $1,000 |
| FAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Dan and Gwen Ramras Charitable Trust Dated 5/17/04’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- FCFAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $189k · revenue +731%
- FTFAIRBANKS TENNIS ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2024 · $157k · revenue +158% · 25% of their budget
- FRFAIRBANKS RESCUE MISSION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- LCLITERACY COUNCIL OF ALASKAone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -1%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -63%
- RRMWFone grant, 2020 · $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.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.
To marshal and focus the resources and relationships needed to cure fa by raising funds for research, promoting public awareness and aligning scientists, patients, clinicians, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies dedicated to…
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.
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,…
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…
Free press action fund fights for your rights to connect and communicate. we fight to save the free and open internet, curb runaway media consolidation, protect press freedom, and promote digital civil rights. we believe that change…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amnesty International of the Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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 42 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 73 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
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 FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS TENNIS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Breast Cancer Detection Center of Alaska and Charitable Corp ↗
- Who funds RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FROM THE STORM INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF ALASKA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION FAIRBANKS CHILDRENS THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE CHAMPIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAD LINE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds OPERA FAIRBANKS ↗
- Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
- Who funds FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTOUR TRAIL COUNCIL ↗
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 Usibelli Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Bill Stroecker Foundation · Marion G Weeks Foundation · United Way of the Tanana Valley Inc · The Norman Foundation · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Dan and Gwen Ramras Charitable Trust Dated 5/17/04 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% 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.