· Private foundation
Ramsey Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRINNELL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $11,000 |
| LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $6,300 |
| MAYFLOWER HOMES | $5,000 |
| GRINNELL COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| GRINNELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | $3,500 |
| GREATER POWESHIEK COMMUNITY FOUNDAT | $2,500 |
| GRINNELL SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $2,500 |
| UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $2,000 |
| MAYFLOWER HOMES | $2,000 |
| FINE ARTS | $1,000 |
| GREATER POWESHIEK COMM FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| AHRENS FOUNDATION | $800 |
| UNITED WAY | $500 |
| GREATER POWESHIEK COMM FOUNDATION | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 9 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MHMAYFLOWER HOMES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +13%
- GSGRINNELL SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC4× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +960%
- IPIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC8× · 2017–2025 · $1k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- CCDAFone grant, 2024 · $800
- GCGRINNELL CHAMBER OF COMMERCEone grant, 2020 · $750
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $650
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.
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.
To support grinnell regional medical center and community healthcare.
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
Southeast iowa regional medical center is dedicated to improving the region's health by providing high-quality care, world-class customer service, and uncompromising value for our patients and their families.
Our mission is to advance the practice of medicine through advocacy, education, and engagement with physicians throughout iowa to ensure the highest quality of care for the patients they serve.
To advance the health and well-being of all people through compassionate, quality care, education, and community service.
The german marshall fund of the united states (gmf) strives to champion democratic values and the transatlantic alliance by strengthening civil society, forging bold and innovative policy ideas, and developing a new generation of leaders…
The mission of Spokane Public Radio is to provide high-quality, artistic, educational and informational radio programming, which enhances and enlivens the cultural life and civic discourse of its listening communities. Spokane Public Radio…
Enhancing community health centers' capacity to care. to improve delivery of accessible, efficient, coordinated, quality and appropriate health care services that meets the needs and improves the health status of the medically needy…
Greencroft goshen creates a dynamic living community that embraces the creativity, contributions and challenges of aging for all, grounded in service excellence, compassionate care and mennonite values.
Iris delivers equal access to information and the arts. through our 24/7 audio signal of print material read aloud and audio desc services the volunteer voices of iris keep print-disabled iowans connected.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 59 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
Open a dossier: Grinnell Mutual Group Foundation · The Trustees of Grinnell College
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ramsey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ramsey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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