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Ramsey Foundation

For charitable and educational purposes focusing on low-income individual's daily life needs, access to cultural arts, and to bring awareness to the general public of the disparity of resources and opportunities in rural communities.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$179k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$179,246
Median grant
4
States reached
$103k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Save the Music Foundation$179,246
Backline Care Inc$179,246
Musicares Foundation Inc$179,246
Opry Trust Fund$179,246
CMA Foundation$179,246
American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities Inc$179,245
Clarke County High School$50,000
JT Moore Middle School$50,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Musicares Foundation Inc: $179k → 14%Save the Music Foundation: $179k → 17%Backline Care Inc: $179k → 20%JT Moore Middle School: $50k → 14%American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities Inc: $179k → 17%Clarke County High School: $50k → 7%CMA Foundation: $179k → 14%Opry Trust Fund: $179k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Giant Step Arts Ltd
Arts & Culture
2
The Loretta Lynn Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
Music Matters Fund Inc
Philanthropy
4
T-Town Rocks Music Festival
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5
Musicians Emergency Fund Inc
—
6
Musicians Emergency Relief Fund - 802
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7
Gospel Music Trust Fund
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8
The Sergio Franchi Music Foundation
Arts & Culture
9
Fender Play Foundation
Arts & Culture
10
The Don and Ruth Clark Foundation for Music
Arts & Culture
11
The Jazz Mentors Foundation
Arts & Culture
12
Mi Music Scholarship Fund
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Musicares Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Clarke County Band Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $179,246 · OtherSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATIONOPRY TRUST FUND INC: $179,246 · OtherOPRY TRUST FUND INCBACKLINE CARE INC: $179,246 · HealthBACKLINE CARE INCMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $179,246 · Arts & CultureMUSICARES FOUNDAT…THE CMA FOUNDATION: $179,246 · PhilanthropyTHE CMA FOUNDATIO…AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $179,245 · ReligionAMERICAN LEBANESE…JT MOORE PTO: $50,000 · EducationJT MOORE …Clarke County High School: $50,000 · EducationClarke Co…
Other$358,492Health$179,246Arts & Culture$179,246Philanthropy$179,246Religion$179,245Education$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $179,246 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $179,246 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CMA FOUNDATION: $179,246 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $179,245 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJT MOORE PTO: $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budget
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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