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Michael G Ratte Charitable Foundat Foundation at a glance

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Michael G Ratte Charitable Foundat 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.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$100kHealth$35kHuman Services$20kHousing & Shelter$2kReligion$2kEducation$2k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JESSE BURKETT LITTLE LEAGUES$100,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%VISITATION HOUSE INC: $9k → 11%VISITATION HOUSE INC: $8k → 11%VISITATION HOUSE: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 9 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JESSE BURKETT LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsJESSE BURKETT LITTLE LEAGUE INCOUR LADY OF THE ANGELS CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF THE ANGELS CHU…IRIDESSENCE COMMUNITY HEALTH: $10,000 · OtherIRIDESSENCE COMMUNITY HEAL…SAINT MARYS SCHOOL: $8,000 · OtherSAINT MARYS SCHOOLWORCESTER ARTS MAGNET: $7,000 · OtherWORCESTER ARTS MAGNETWORCESTER HOUSE OF STUDIES: $2,000 · OtherWORCESTER HOUSE OF STUDIESVISITATION HOUSE INC: $19,500 · Human ServicesVISITATION HO…WORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · EducationABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC: $2,000 · Housing & Shelter
Recreation & Sports$100,000Other$37,000Human Services$19,500Education$2,000Housing & Shelter$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJESSE BURKETT LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetVISITATION HOUSE INC: $19,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetWORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 JESSE BURKETT LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds VISITATION HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Michael G Ratte Charitable Foundat Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael G Ratte Charitable Foundat Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Worcester State Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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