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Ram Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OFFERDAHL'S HAND-OFF FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| CALVARY CHAPEL OF FT LAUDERDALE INC | $26,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION SOUTH FLORIDA | $6,300 |
| FALMOUTH TOGETHER WE CAN INC | $5,000 |
| DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $2,591 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $2,522 |
| MIAMI DOLPHINS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
| LIVE THE LIFE MINISTRIES INC | $1,250 |
| RUSSELL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CRU (CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST) | $512 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| HEART2HEART OUTREACH SOUTH FLORIDA | $500 |
| JUST JESS FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
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 (FY17–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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 +52% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES5× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +120%
- FPFIRST PRIORITY OF BROWARD COUNTYINC5× · 2017–2021 · $15k · revenue +89%
- HHHERE'S HELP INC3× · 2019–2023 · $14k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- CCCalvary Chapelone grant, 2017 · $13k
- NCNational Christian Foundation of South Florida (Helping Hands Ministry)one grant, 2021 · $6k
- RMREBRIDGE MINISTRIESone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Mfi provides meaningful relationships among member ministers, enabling them to be more effective in their calling for the purpose of building and multiflying strong local churches around the world.
Organization's mission: courage for life exists to encourage individuals to embrace their god-given courage for life. we create emotional health, spiritual growth, and bible study resources to disciple individuals to grow in their…
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
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The organization is a biblically-based 12 step fellowship of men and women who share their experiences and help others recover from addiction.alive again ministries, inc. (dba) crossflorida - mission statement:our mission is to create an…
Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.
We will spread the word of god through conferences, publications, and broadcasts.
This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…
Faith's purpose is to mentor students for spirit-filled leadership in ministry, in light of the great commission. while academics are important, the classrooms are not the only learning place. through a combination of formal instruction,…
Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…
Mercy multiplied international, inc. is a christian-based entity that exists as the central coordinating body for the mercy multiplied program and brand. formerly known as mercy ministries international, inc., the ministry officially…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Christian Community Association of South Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Just Jess 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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 81 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 OFFERDAHL'S HAND-OFF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRIORITY OF BROWARD COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds HERE'S HELP INC ↗
- Who funds Ron Burton Training Village Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FREEDOM & VIRTUE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA SPORTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH TOGETHER WE CAN INC ↗
- Who funds HEART2HEART SENIOR OUTREACH OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds The Nat Moore Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOLUS CHURCH INC ↗
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Live the Life Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds TAYLOR'S CLOSET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OIC OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN HOUSE 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: Festus & Helen Stacy Foundationinc · Festus & Helen Stacy Foundation II · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Broward Inc · South Florida Sports Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Nfl Foundation Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Ram 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.
- Oic of South Florida Inc — 89% of income from government
- Live the Life Ministries Inc — 66% of income from government
- Falmouth Together We Can Inc — 14% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Here's Help Inc — 2% 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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