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Sylvia Ratner Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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100% of Sylvia Ratner Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of The Texas Hill Country Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’18
1
’19
1
’20
2
’21
1
’22
1
’23
2
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2025
$4,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$4,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$202k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Sylvia Ratner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyHealthEducationOther
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 arriving2$7k50%
FY20232$4k100%
FY20221$7k100%
FY20212$5k100%
FY20201$5k100%
FY20191$4k0%
FY20182$1kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$14kHealth$12kEducation$7kHuman Services$4k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County$7,00010%
San Antonio Lifetime Recovery Inc Dba Lifetime Recovery$5,75020%
Boerne Education Foundation$5,20011%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$4,20020%
Wonders & Worries Inc$3,50010%
United Way of Southeast Louisiana$2,25010%
Reading Is Fundamental Inc$1,75010%
Apbd Research Foundation$50011%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($2k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sylvia Ratner Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of San Antonio and Bexar County: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Antonio Lifetime Recovery Inc Dba Lifetime Recovery: $5,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoerne Education Foundation: $5,200 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc: $4,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWonders & Worries Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Southeast Louisiana: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReading Is Fundamental Inc: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetApbd Research Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.6% 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 8.

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.

San Antonio Area Foun…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX13.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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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About Sylvia Ratner Foundation

How much does Sylvia Ratner Foundation give?
Sylvia Ratner Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $4,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Sylvia Ratner Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (38%), Health (34%), Education (19%).
Who are Sylvia Ratner Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County ($7k), San Antonio Lifetime Recovery Inc Dba Lifetime Recovery ($6k), Boerne Education Foundation ($5k).
Does Sylvia Ratner Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sylvia Ratner Foundation 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 Sylvia Ratner Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Sylvia Ratner Foundation based?
Sylvia Ratner Foundation is based in TX.

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 10 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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