How much did RONALD AND DEBORAH RATNER FAMILY grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of RONALD AND DEBORAH RATNER FAMILY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

arts-inspired learninggolden

2019

youth villiagevilliage rwandaagahozo-shalom youthgorilla doctorsshakermidcoast conservancylaw

2020

honorpark synagoguelawclevelandgolden

2021

suppportlegalcleveland theatretrail assocationgreater clevelandmotionjewish

2022

ukraineemergency reliefawardsmuseumvillagelegalenterprise partners

2023

doctors bordersgreater clevelandawardbettyanimalmotiongala

2025

children

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $25k
$10k–50k2 grants · $42k
$50k–250k2 grants · $200k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$62k

Total assets

Largest grants

SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$150,000
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$50,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND$25,000
HAMMER MUSEUM$16,666
CLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK$5,000
FRIENDS OF NACHUSA GRASSLANDS$5,000
IMMIGRANT DEFENDERS LAW CENTER$5,000
PARK SYNAGOGUE$5,000
J STREET EDUCATION FUND$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of RONALD AND DEBORAH RATNER FAMILY’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.

RONALD AND DEBORAH RATNER FAMILYlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 6.4% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.7M · 79 repeat orgs$575k to everyone else

79 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 73 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.7M

$560k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+45%

Still filing today

57%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
5× · 2021–2025 · $900k · revenue +10%
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $675k · revenue +21%
ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS
4× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue +153%

Funded once

JC
JCF CAMPAIGN FOR JEWISH NEEDS
one grant, 2019 · $184k
TD
THE DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND INTERNATIONALgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $63k · revenue +56%
YA
YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NE OHCTR 4 ARTS INSPIRED
one grant, 2019 · $57k

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.

Oberlin College

Core values derived from our mission include: - Educational Excellence: The College of Arts and Sciences and Conservatory of Music are committed to educating students to achieve academic and musical excellence in an environment where…

Education

Cleveland Museum of Art

To provide a collection of artwork representing achievement of individuals and civilizations, past and present, for the benefit of the public.

Arts & Culture

Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services

Witness Inc

Witness helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. the organization operates globally. witness' global team designs solutions, provides guidance, and co-develops strategies that enable human rights defenders…

International

JewishColumbus

To Enrich Jewish Life & Instill Jewish Pride; Protect Our Community; Connect with Israel & World Jewry; Help Vulnerable Jewish Populations

Religion

American Jewish World Service Inc

We work to realize human rights and end poverty in africa, asia, latin america and the caribbean.

International

International Peace Institute Inc

The international peace institute is an independent, non-profit organization working to strengthen inclusive multilateralism for a more peaceful and sustainable planet. through its research, convening, and strategic advising, ipi provides…

International

Jewish Federation of Cincinnati

The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati brings our community together to care for Jews.

Philanthropy

Cincinnati Zoo Foundation Inc

Endowment fund for the zoological society of cincinnati

Animals

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice.

Social Science

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.

Education

Cleveland State University

The CSUF is organized primarily to engage in activities to provide support and services to CSU.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Western Reserve Historical Society. 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.

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 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/86

the rest of the field

6,875/74,220

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.

06the grantee network

82 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

82/82

Grantees still filing

63/82

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,260,520Education$1,141,779Philanthropy$966,483International$875,750Arts & Culture$649,583Health$262,583Community Improvement$130,000

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

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.

Jewish Federation of ClevelandOH47.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Cleveland Foundation · James and Susan Ratner Family Foundation · The Horowitz Ratner Family Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner · Third Federal Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family · The George Gund Foundation · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Milton and Tamar Maltz · Richard Horvitz And

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 organisation RONALD AND DEBORAH RATNER FAMILY 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: KOL ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~12 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 341439802 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on KOL ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 12 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Ronald and Deborah Ratner Family?

Find your warmest path to Ronald and Deborah Ratner Family through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

RONALD AND DEBORAH RATNER FAMILY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

82 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ronald and Deborah Ratner Family?

More from the funding graph

RONALD AND DEBORAH RATNER FAMILY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

82 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ronald and Deborah Ratner Family?

More from the funding graph