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Myron F Ratcliffe 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.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
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 2025.

Human Services$115kArts & Culture$91kYouth Development$21kEducation$17kHousing & Shelter$13k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$583k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION$12,000
YOUTHHOPE FOUNDATION$7,500
REDLANDS HISTORICAL MUSEUM ASSOCIAT$5,000
REDLANDS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION$4,000
REDLANDS BOWL PERFORMING ARTS$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS$1,000
02The need
03

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, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF REDLANDS: $15k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF REDLANDS: $13k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF REDLANDS: $11k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF REDLANDS: $10k → 14%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$252k · 10 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$252k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+22%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $66k · revenue +34%
  • FS
    Family Service Association of Redlands
    4× · 2017–2020 · $49k · revenue +130%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER REDLA RIVERSIDE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +330%

Funded once

  • RH
    REDLANDS HISTORICAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION (DBA) MUSEUM OF REDLANDS
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • VP
    VALLEY PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +22%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Redlands Day Nursery

To provide quality early childhood education experiences and services for families in the greater redlands community, coupled with support for families as they develop parenting strategies, skills for independence and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
2
Redlands Art Association

Our mission is to enrich lives and promote a vibrant society by inspiring creativity, nurturing individual expression, and supporting the visual arts.

Arts & Culture
3
Redlands Community Hospital

Our mission is to promote an environment where members of our community can receive high quality care and services so they can maintain and be restored to good health.

Health
4
Boys and Girls Club of the Redwoods

We empower youth to reach their full potential as repsonsible, caring and productive citizens through professionally led programs and activities that are fun, postive, and relevant, in a safe, supportive and healthy environment.

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5
Redlands Community Scholarship Foundation

Composed of corporate members, this organization receives gifts, bequests and donations, disbursing the money in scholarships annually to Redlands Unified School District graduates.

Education
6
Redlands High School Vocal Music Boosters

Provide support for redlands (ca) high school vocal music programs. the school choral groups take two tours each year to vocal competitions in various partsof the us. rhsvmb is tasked with providing the financial support for this activity.

Education
7
Redlands Conservancy

To preserve redlands' historic built environment and to conserve the irreplaceable, natural and agricultural environments to connect redlands residents and visitors to our pioneers and visionaries.

Arts & Culture
8
Redding School of the Arts Inc

At redding school of the arts, where education and the arts connect, we emphasize creativity and foster strong relationships. our students gain a foundation of confidence, resourcefulness, and adaptability to navigate a successful future.…

Education
9
Redlands Christian School

Redlands christian school works to develop christ-centered excellence in education, partnering with the church and home to advance god's kingdom.

Education
10
Redwood Cooperative School

Education Preschool Through Eight Grade

Education
11
Redlands Teachers Association

The association represents teachers during contract negotitations and grievance proceedings, educates members, officers, committeees and board as to improving academic standards

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12
Redlands Educational Partnership

To make education a priority in the community, to enhance students' learning opportunities, and to better prepare redlands unified school district students to become contributing members of our society.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Redlands Symphony Association; the most unlike its peers is The Youth Hope Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION: $66,000 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATIONREDLANDS BOWL PERFORMING ARTS: $15,000 · OtherREDLANDS BOWL PERFORMING ARTSThe Youth Hope Foundation: $12,500 · OtherThe Youth Hope FoundationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER REDL: $12,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER REDLBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER REDLA RIVERSIDE: $8,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER REDLA RIVERSIDE+2 more: $7,500 · Other+2 moreREDLANDS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $41,000 · Arts & CultureREDLANDS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONREDLANDS HISTORICAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $27,500 · Arts & CultureREDLANDS HISTORICAL MUSEUM ASS…Family Service Association of Redlands: $48,500 · Human ServicesFamily Service Associ…UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $16,000 · EducationVALLEY PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $1,000 · Education
Other$122,000Arts & Culture$68,500Human Services$48,500Education$17,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION: $66,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Service Association of Redlands: $48,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetREDLANDS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $41,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetREDLANDS HISTORICAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $27,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Youth Hope Foundation: $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER REDLA RIVERSIDE: $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKIMBERLY-SHIRK ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVALLEY PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $1,000 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 FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Family Service Association of Redlands ↗
  • Who funds REDLANDS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds REDLANDS HISTORICAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS ↗
  • Who funds The Youth Hope Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER REDLA RIVERSIDE ↗
  • Who funds KIMBERLY-SHIRK ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗

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.

Inland Empire Community FoundationCA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inland Empire Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Myron F Ratcliffe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Myron F Ratcliffe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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