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Richard Ravitch 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.

$5.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$4.8MArts & Culture$1.8MHealth$1.3MPublic Benefit$508kEmployment$345kInternational$55kCivil Rights$55kPhilanthropy$41kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
  • $250k+3 grants · $4.8M
$200,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$792k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$4,000,000
THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION$400,000
CRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AT CUNY$350,000
FUTURE NOW INSTITUTE$200,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK$10,000
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$10,000
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 (FY20–22, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1.3M → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $5k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1k → 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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
DC
GA
FL

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.

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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 15 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
25

Total granted

$4.0M
$255k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+42%

Still filing today

60%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CulturePublic BenefitInternationalCivil RightsOther

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

  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +37%
  • Cornell University
    2× · 2021–2022 · $75k · revenue +23%
  • TH
    THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $53k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CITY REPORT - PLEDGE
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • TF
    THE FUND FOR CUTS OF NY
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • VO
    VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2022 · $20k

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.

1
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
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
3
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
12
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Capital & Main and the most unlike its peers is Broadway House for Continuing Care Fd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr15%15%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr18%7%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr13%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%29%10–20yr18%0%20–35yr12%3%35–55yr13%61%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
14%
11,838/86,032

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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 45 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Wellesley College — $4,000,000 · EducationWellesley College+6 more — $252,750 · Education+6 moreCRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AT CUNY — $962,500 · OtherCRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL O…YALE LAW SCHOOL — $525,000 · OtherYALE LAW SCHOOLTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION — $400,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDA…THE METROPOLITAN OPERA — $110,000 · OtherCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS- ANNUAL FUND — $100,000 · OtherTHE CITY REPORT - PLEDGE — $100,000 · Other+20 more — $289,850 · Other+20 moreMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $1,256,000 · Human ServicesMOUNT SINAI HEA…VOLCKER ALLIANCE INC — $345,000 · Public BenefitCITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION INC — $12,000 · Public BenefitCity Report Inc — $325,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FUTURE NOW INSTITUTE — $200,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $40,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $35,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC — $50,000 · InternationalJAMESTOWN FOUNDATION — $5,000 · International
Education$4,252,750Other$2,487,350Human Services$1,256,000Public Benefit$357,000Arts & Culture$326,000Philanthropy$276,000International$55,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWellesley College — $4,000,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $1,256,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVOLCKER ALLIANCE INC — $345,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCity Report Inc — $325,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTHE FUTURE NOW INSTITUTE — $200,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $52,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJewish Community Relations Council of New York — $44,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOCRACY A JOURNAL OF IDEAS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAMESTOWN FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommittee for Governor George E Pataki Leadership and Leaning Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK JEWISH AGENDA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAPITAL & MAIN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEND OF LIFE CHOICES NEW YORK INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROADWAY HOUSE FOR CONTINUING CARE FD — $500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE PAUL ROBERT CAREY FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 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 Jm Kaplan Fund IncJewish Communal FundThe Ford FoundationNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Jm Kaplan Fund IncNY13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Richard Ravitch 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 · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Richard Ravitch Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Richard Ravitch 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.

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 45 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.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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