· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| WALKABOUT THEATER COMPANY | $10,000 |
| INTERAMERICAN DESIGNERS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE MILWAUKEE INC | $7,950 |
| PAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 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.
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 +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
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
WOODLAND PATTERN INC8× · 2017–2025 · $378k · revenue +207%
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
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.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Emily Harvey Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 113 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 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds RETHINK THE CONVERSATION LTD ↗
- 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 SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALKABOUT THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
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: 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
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 Meyer J & Norma L Ragir Foundation 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.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% 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.