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Rattner Family 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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Health$2.4MPublic Benefit$1.9MInternational$971kArts & Culture$483kEnvironment$362kScience & Tech$275kEducation$239kCivil Rights$155kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $356k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $700k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION$300,000
REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL$125,000
VINEYARD LANDS FOR OUR COMMUNITY INC$100,000
MARTHA'S VINEYARD HOSPITAL$100,000
ASPEN INSTITUTE$100,000
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE$100,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$75,000
NORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION$50,000
TARGET ALS FOUNDATION$50,000
MV YOUTH$35,000
SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION$27,500
PEN AMERICA$25,700
THE AMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN$25,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$25,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$25,000
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 (FY23–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $13k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 17%COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
KS
NC
DC
AL
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 18% of Rattner Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 62% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Rattner Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.1M · 41 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

41 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
63

Total granted

$4.1M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+8%

Still filing today

80%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $318k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

  • RI
    REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +21%
  • ND
    NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
    4× · 2020–2024 · $402k · revenue +43%
  • AA
    AMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN
    4× · 2020–2024 · $175k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • TH
    The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $650k · revenue +16%
  • HF
    HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY
    one grant, 2023 · $650k
  • TM
    THE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -28%

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.

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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
10
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc

The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…

Education
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tsal Kaplun Foundation Inc. 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 backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Environmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsPublic Library OperationsEquine Therapy ProgramsCancer Support ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Christian Missionary Organi…Pregnancy Support ServicesYouth Development ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Health Access Advocacy and …
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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr19%11%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/90
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,670

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.

05the grantee network

83 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. 83 of the 118 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/83
Grantees still filing
47/83
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $1,200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONNew York Historical Society — $112,500 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical SocietyVINEYARD LANDS FOR OUR COMMUNITY INC C/O PHILIP WALLIS — $100,000 · Arts & CultureVINEYARD LANDS FOR OUR COMM…GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIO…+16 more — $241,200 · Arts & Culture+16 moreHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY — $650,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $205,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDTHE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION — $200,000 · OtherTHE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATIONHospital for Special Surgery — $100,000 · OtherMV YOUTH INC — $115,521 · OtherTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $100,000 · Other+57 more — $840,382 · Other+57 moreREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC — $500,000 · InternationalREFUGEES INTERNATION…NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS — $402,000 · InternationalNATIONAL DEMOCRATIC …AMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN — $175,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ACADEMY IN …COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $101,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN R…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $100,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF …+6 more — $70,000 · InternationalThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc — $650,000 · HealthThe Hospital f…NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — $255,000 · HealthNEW YORK STEM …+6 more — $37,700 · HealthPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $325,000 · EducationPresident …ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $165,000 · EducationICAHN SCHO…TARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · EducationTARGET ALS…COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC — $25,000 · EducationELEANOR NOW — $25,000 · Education+5 more — $39,000 · Education+5 moreSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION — $157,500 · EnvironmentNORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION INC — $52,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS — $10,000 · Environment+1 more — $2,500 · EnvironmentANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $100,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — $25,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$1,753,700Other$2,210,903International$1,348,000Health$942,700Education$679,000Environment$222,000Civil Rights$125,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $1,200,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc — $650,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC — $500,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetNATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS — $402,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $325,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — $255,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN — $175,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $165,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION — $157,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetMV YOUTH INC — $115,521 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetNew York Historical Society — $112,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $101,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVINEYARD LANDS FOR OUR COMMUNITY INC C/O PHILIP WALLIS — $100,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $73,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION INC — $52,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSESAME WORKSHOP — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWOMENS FOREIGN POLICY GROUP INC — $36,500 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $25,700 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HISTORYMAKERS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELEANOR NOW — $25,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetSpringfield Library Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHELLO FUTURE INC — $20,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWNET — $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEYELLIANCE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSERPENTINE AMERICAS FOUNDATION FKA AMERICAS FOUNDATION OF THE SERPENTINE GA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitta Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% 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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Ayco Charitable F…Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The William & Flora H…The Ford FoundationLanbro FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…Greater Washington Co…The Rockefeller Found…The Dinan Family Foun…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY27.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Lanbro Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · The Dinan Family 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 Rattner Family Foundation Inc 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 · 90%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Hamilton Partnership for Paterson Inc — 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 118 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.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines