· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOODLAND PATTERN INC | $150,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS | $42,000 |
| MYRIAD USA | $37,000 |
| LIVE BAIT THEATER | $36,000 |
| PUBLIC ASSEMBLY THEATER COMPANY | $25,000 |
| UJAMAA PLACE | $20,000 |
| LIVE ACTION SET | $15,000 |
| Z SPACE STUDIO | $15,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| INTERAMERICAN DESIGNERS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| WALKABOUT THEATER COMPANY | $10,000 |
| ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE MILWAUKEE INC | $7,950 |
| WRITERS AND ARTIST PROJECT | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 5 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WOODLAND PATTERN INC8× · 2017–2025 · $378k · revenue +759%
FRACTURED ATLAS INC6× · 2019–2025 · $127k · revenue +43%- UPUJAMAA PLACE8× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +142%
Funded once
- SHSleepy Hollow Performing Artists Inone grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue -37%
- TCTALLAHASSEE CHAN CENTERone grant, 2021 · $10k
- JAJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL NORTH AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $7k
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.
Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Contra-tiempo is a bold, multilingual los angeles-based activist dance theater company creating physically intense and politically astute performance work that moves audience to imagine what is possible. We create a new physical, visual…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
The moving picture institute is a nonprofit production company and talent incubator that creates high-impact films designed to entertain, inspire, and educate audiences with captivating stories about human freedom.
Via art fund is a nonprofit organization where art patrons join forces as partners in a new model of philanthropy to support visionary initiatives in art.
The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
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,…
How this is measured
76 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. 76 of the 113 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 WOODLAND PATTERN INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds UJAMAA PLACE ↗
- Who funds Columbia College Chicago ↗
- Who funds The Z Space Studio ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ASSEMBLY THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds RETHINK THE CONVERSATION LTD ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Sleepy Hollow Performing Artists In ↗
- Who funds One Plus One Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE ↗
- Who funds INTERAMERICAN DESIGNERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WALKABOUT THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Meyer J & Norma L Ragir Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meyer J & Norma L Ragir Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
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