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Raman Family Foundation

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.

$118k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$570kEducation$375kArts & Culture$149kReligion$60kRecreation & Sports$43kCommunity Improvement$26kHousing & Shelter$22kCrime & Legal$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $96k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY$25,000
Seattle University$20,000
brown university$15,000
HINDU TEMPLE & CULTUTAL CENTER$15,000
Seattle Art Museum$11,000
Friends of Waterfront Park$10,000
Outdoor for all foundation$5,000
santa clara university$5,000
Kiran Anjali Project$2,500
THE SOPHIA WAY$2,500
Akshaya Patra Foundation$2,500
Food Lifeline$2,500
Mary's Place Seattle$1,000
Northwest Harvest$500
The Mountaineers$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LIFEWIRE: $1k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $1k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $3k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $3k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $3k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $3k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $3k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $3k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $3k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $1k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $1k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $1k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 32 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
4

Total granted

$1.3M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+47%

Still filing today

75%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TO
    THE OVERLAKE SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2023 · $180k · revenue +161%
  • SA
    SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $139k · revenue +0%
  • TN
    THE NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF THE ARTS HUMANITIES AND ENVIRONMENT
    5× · 2017–2021 · $55k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • UK
    UDAVUM KARANGAL OF USA CORPgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +25%
  • OM
    OPHTHALMIC MISSION TRUST INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • SS
    SUMMER SEARCHgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +53%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
School's Out Washington

School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.

Youth Development
2
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

—
3
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
4
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
5
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…

—
6
Friends of Kexp

Kexp's mission is to enrich your life by championing music and discovery.

Youth Development
7
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
8
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
9
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

—
10
Washington Bikes

Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.

Recreation & Sports
11
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
12
Seattle Architectural Foundation

The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Harvest Emm and the most unlike its peers is Vishal Himalaya 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEarly Childhood PreschoolsFood Access and Community N…Washington State Advocacy O…Performing Arts Organizatio…International Child Welfare…Local History and Heritage …Homeless Housing & Support …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr13%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr19%7%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr13%76%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
13%
2,103/16,309

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.

04the grantee network

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 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
26/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $560,365 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY+1 more — $3,000 · PhilanthropyTHE OVERLAKE SCHOOL — $180,000 · EducationTHE OVERLAKE SCHOOLTHE NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF THE ARTS HUMANITIES AND ENVIRONMENT — $55,000 · EducationTHE NORTHWEST SCHOOL …PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $3,000 · EducationHINDU TEMPLE AND CULTURAL CENTER — $60,000 · OtherHINDU TEMPLE AND CULT…SEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $43,000 · OtherSEATTLE UNIVERSITYIACS Community Program — $35,000 · OtherIACS Community Progra…WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · OtherWASHINGTON TRAILS ASS…SN OM TRUST INC — $15,000 · OtherSN OM TRUST INCMERCER ISLAND SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherMERCER ISLAND SCHOOL …Outdoors for all Foundation — $10,000 · Other+15 more — $59,000 · Other+15 moreSEATTLE ART MUSEUM — $138,500 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ART …+2 more — $7,000 · Arts & CultureBROWN UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · Community ImprovementRURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $20,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT — $10,000 · Community ImprovementTHE SOPHIA WAY — $17,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $4,001 · Human ServicesMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $4,000 · Human ServicesLifeWire — $2,000 · Human ServicesAPI CHAYA — $15,000 · Crime & LegalAtlantic Street Center — $6,000 · Crime & LegalNW Childrens Foundation — $2,000 · Crime & Legal
Philanthropy$563,365Education$248,000Other$252,000Arts & Culture$145,500Community Improvement$60,000Human Services$27,501Crime & Legal$23,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $560,365 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OVERLAKE SCHOOL — $180,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM — $138,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF THE ARTS HUMANITIES AND ENVIRONMENT — $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $43,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOPHIA WAY — $17,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAPI CHAYA — $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOutdoors for all Foundation — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFARESTART — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAtlantic Street Center — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKiran Anjali Project — $5,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUDAVUM KARANGAL OF USA CORP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $4,001 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Theatre Northwest — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVISHAL HIMALAYA FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetKing County Library System Foundation — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifeWire — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNW Childrens Foundation — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCRISIS CONNECTIONS — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNTAINEERS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Seattle FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…The Norcliffe Foundat…United Way of King Co…Jagran FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…Satya and Rao Remala …Garneau Nicon Family …Medina FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Mightycause Charitabl…Gates Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA30.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Jagran Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Satya and Rao Remala Foundation · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Medina Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gates 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 Raman Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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