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Ratio 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.

$19k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
77%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,750
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 77% of the organizations Ratio Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$19k44%
FY202313$42k77%
FY20223$11k67%
FY20217$22k71%
FY20204$12k50%
FY201913$35k31%
FY201814$38k57%
FY201715$28kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$100kArts & Culture$32kFood & Nutrition$19kHealth$13kYouth Development$10kRecreation & Sports$9kCommunity Improvement$9kHuman Services$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
NJ
CO
NC
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

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

Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($32k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ratio Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIndependent Colleges of Indiana Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorthlight Theatre Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAce Mentor Program of Indiana Inc: $12,139 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetCanstruction Inc: $12,124 over 1y, 15% of budgetNational Organization of Minority Architects: $8,856 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIndy Criterium Inc: $8,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEastern Illinois Foodbank: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDon Moyer Boys & Girls Club: $5,495 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCrisis Nursery: $5,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budget24 Foundation Inc: $5,265 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHerron High School Inc: $4,167 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMajor Hospital Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana State Museum Foundation Inc: $3,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWake Technical Community College Foundation: $3,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBack 2 School America: $3,584 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIndiana Wish Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe 1852 Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRead and Feed: $2,719 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAspire Higher Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $2,325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarrison Center for the Arts Inc: $2,140 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Mobile Makers: $1,295 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBenjamin Harrison Presidential Site Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDePauw University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Association of Shelby County: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Carolina Museum of Art Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdvocates for Urban Agriculture Nfp: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCarmel Clay Public Library Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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.

Lilly Endowment IncIN23.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Dorsey Foundation Inc · Arts Council of Indianapolis Inc · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust

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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How do I get to Ratio Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ratio Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Ratio Foundation Inc

How much does Ratio Foundation Inc give?
Ratio Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $19,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ratio Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (48%), Arts & Culture (15%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
Who are Ratio Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Illinois Foundation ($25k), Independent Colleges of Indiana Inc ($20k), Northlight Theatre Inc ($15k).
Does Ratio Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 77% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ratio Foundation Inc 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 Ratio Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Ratio Foundation Inc based?
Ratio Foundation Inc is based in IN.

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 50 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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