· Private foundation
Mark and Lisa Ratner Family Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMOS AND CELIA HEILICHER MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| PJ LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK | $10,000 |
| MINNESOTA HILLEL | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION (AIPAC) | $10,000 |
| BETH EL FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA INC | $10,000 |
| HERZL CAMP FOUNDATION INC | $8,250 |
| SHOLOM FOUNDATION | $7,200 |
| EMISSASRY | $5,570 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INC | $5,087 |
| JEWISH YOUTH LIBRARY | $3,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CHABAD YOUNG PROFESSIONALS | $1,556 |
| GEMILUS CHESED ZICHRON SOCIETY (GCZS) | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 30% of Mark and Lisa Ratner Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 14 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HAHAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACADEMY4× · 2021–2025 · $68k · revenue +106%
- SFSHOLOM FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +9%
- MBMICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- PPANCANORGone grant, 2024 · $1k
- HAHOPE ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +158%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +16%
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.
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.
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
The minnesota jcc foundation's sole purpose is to support the minnesota jcc.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The organization's mission is to build an engaged and united israeli-american community that strengthens the israeli and jewish identity of our next generation, the american-jewish community and the bond between the peoples of the united…
Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.
To further jewish historical education among youths
Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…
How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds HAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BETH EL FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHOLOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HILLEL ↗
- Who funds HERZL CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Borgen Project ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwest ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation · Elmar Family Foundation · Lynne & Andrew Redleaf Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Oren and Sharron Steinfeldt Foundation · Alex G & Mollie Tankenoff Family Foundation · The Cdf Foundation · Marshall & Elaine Siegel Foundation · Robert and Susan Diamond Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mark and Lisa Ratner Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mark and Lisa Ratner Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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