California · Private foundation
Meyer J & Norma L Ragir 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.
- $458k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Meyer J & Norma L Ragir Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $407k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $322k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $296k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $233k | 34% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $166k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $175k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 44 | $260k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $295k | 59% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodland Pattern Inc | $377,500 | 8 | 6% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $127,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Ujamaa Place | $115,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Sanshin Zen Community | $80,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Columbia College Chicago | $78,066 | 3 | 0% |
| The Z Space Studio | $75,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Alliance Francaise de Milwaukee Inc | $73,746 | 7 | 4% |
| Live Action Set | $71,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Chapman University | $62,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Public Assembly Theater Company | $55,000 | 3 | 12% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($768k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Meyer J & Norma L Ragir Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Clarence and Pearl Becker Charitable Foundation · Gardner Foundation · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Meyer J & Norma L Ragir Foundation with peer funders
About Meyer J & Norma L Ragir Foundation
- How much does Meyer J & Norma L Ragir Foundation give?
- Meyer J & Norma L Ragir Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $457,950 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Meyer J & Norma L Ragir Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Education (12%), Religion (8%).
- Who are Meyer J & Norma L Ragir Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Woodland Pattern Inc ($378k), Fractured Atlas Inc ($127k), Ujamaa Place ($115k).
- Does Meyer J & Norma L Ragir Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Meyer J & Norma L Ragir 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Meyer J & Norma L Ragir Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Fr Bigelow Foundation, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc.
- Where is Meyer J & Norma L Ragir Foundation based?
- Meyer J & Norma L Ragir Foundation is based in CA.
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