· Private foundation
Ralph G Gorenstein Charitable Foundation Inc
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 $10k53 grants · $136k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SARASOTA ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| SAVE OUR SEABIRDS | $9,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $7,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VENICE INC | $6,000 |
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS | $5,000 |
| COA - YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTERS | $5,000 |
| BOOKER PROMISE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND | $4,000 |
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, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +45% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 7 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- TCTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +101%
SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE CORP9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +8%- SOSAVE OUR SEABIRDS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +72%
Funded once
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +145%- SASALVATION ARM OF BRADENTONone grant, 2024 · $4k
- SCSHARYN CHAPMAN ENDOWMENT FOR THE CHILD PROTECTION CENTERone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
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The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Plastic Oceans International. 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 37 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 92 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 THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE CORP ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR SEABIRDS INC ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CENTER OF VENICE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S GUARDIAN FUND ↗
- Who funds BOOKER PROMISE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FSHD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds VISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Sarasota County Inc ↗
- Who funds PLASTIC OCEANS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds EVERYDAY BLESSINGS INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds Paralyzed Veterans of America - Wisconsin Chapter ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Msc Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · The Arthur S Karp Family Foundation Inc · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc
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 Ralph G Gorenstein Charitable Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Child Protection Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Everyday Blessings Inc — 0% 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.
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