How much does Raman Family Foundation give?

Raman Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $118,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Raman Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (43%), Education (28%), Arts & Culture (11%).

Who are Raman Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Way of King County ($560k), The Overlake School ($180k), Seattle Art Museum ($139k).

Does Raman Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Raman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Raman Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation.

Where is Raman Family Foundation based?

Raman Family Foundation is based in WA.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington · Private foundation

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 FY2024(still arriving): 15
Grants FY2024: 12
Organizations funded FY2023: 8%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $25,000
Organizations funded a year: 12 to 24; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $2.0M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Raman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationHealthOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	14	$103k	29%
FY2023	12	$240k	8%
FY2022	16	$149k	6%
FY2021	16	$187k	13%
FY2020	18	$197k	28%
FY2019	13	$175k	0%
FY2018	24	$130k	21%
FY2017	22	$109k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
United Way of King County	$560,365	8	0%
The Overlake School	$180,000	7	0%
Seattle Art Museum	$138,500	8	0%
Hindu Temple and Cultural Center	$60,000	5	n/a
The Northwest School of the Arts Humanities and Environment	$55,000	5	0%
Seattle University	$43,000	8	0%
Rural Development Institute	$20,000	4	0%
The Sophia Way	$17,500	7	0%
Api Chaya	$15,000	6	0%
Washington Trails Association	$15,000	3	0%

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All grantees of Raman Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
United Way of King County	$560,365	8	0%
The Overlake School	$180,000	7	0%
Seattle Art Museum	$138,500	8	0%
Hindu Temple and Cultural Center	$60,000	5	n/a
The Northwest School of the Arts Humanities and Environment	$55,000	5	0%
Seattle University	$43,000	8	0%
Rural Development Institute	$20,000	4	0%
The Sophia Way	$17,500	7	0%
Api Chaya	$15,000	6	0%
Washington Trails Association	$15,000	3	0%
Friends of Seattle Waterfront	$10,000	1	0%
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College	$10,000	2	0%
Outdoors for all Foundation	$10,000	2	0%
Washington's National Park Fund	$7,500	2	0%
Food Lifeline	$7,500	3	0%
Farestart	$6,000	6	0%
Atlantic Street Center	$6,000	3	0%
Kiran Anjali Project	$5,500	4	1%
Udavum Karangal of USA Corp	$5,000	1	1%
Children's Alliance	$4,001	4	0%
Mary's Place Seattle	$4,000	4	0%
Cascade Public Media	$4,000	4	0%
Youth Theatre Northwest	$3,000	3	0%
Vishal Himalaya Foundation	$3,000	6	12%
King County Library System Foundation	$3,000	3	0%
Summer Search	$2,500	1	0%
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa)	$2,500	1	0%
LifeWire	$2,000	2	0%
NW Childrens Foundation	$2,000	2	0%
Crisis Connections	$1,500	2	0%
Northwest Harvest Emm	$500	1	0%
The Mountaineers	$500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($83k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Raman Family Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

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

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.

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About Raman Family Foundation

How much does Raman Family Foundation give?: Raman Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $118,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Raman Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (43%), Education (28%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are Raman Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Way of King County ($560k), The Overlake School ($180k), Seattle Art Museum ($139k).
Does Raman Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Raman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Raman Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation.
Where is Raman Family Foundation based?: Raman Family Foundation is based in WA.