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The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family 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.

$2k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
39
Organizations funded FY2023
46%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,250
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,250
Organizations funded a year
7 to 140
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$8k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 46% of the organizations The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalHuman ServicesReligionOther
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 arriving1$2k0%
FY202339$396k46%
FY202272$925k24%
FY202132$286k59%
FY2020122$807k35%
FY2019140$2.1M91%
FY201831$280k97%
FY20177$23kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.5MEducation$751kReligion$469kHealth$212kFood & Nutrition$184kInternational$112kHuman Services$91kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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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 224 grantees
All grantees of The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Musical Arts Association$1,444,90062%
United Way of Greater Cleveland$525,00032%
Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc$145,00040%
Cleveland Institute of Music$120,00030%
Park Synagogue$113,0002n/a
The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage$105,00051%
Kol Israel Foundation Inc$98,950442%
Cleveland State University Foundation$95,66060%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$79,15030%
The Ratner School$68,20032%
Michigan State University$65,0002n/a
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace$55,00030%
The Cleveland Police Foundation$50,00026%
Joseph & Florence Mandel Jewish Day School$50,00010%
Ginn Foundation$50,000119%
Ofeq Institute Inc$50,000231%
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum$50,00020%
The City Club of Cleveland$44,52031%
Cleveland Museum of Art$40,00020%
Fuchs Mizrachi Schools$40,00030%
Friends of Ginn Academy Corporation$40,000125%
Values-In-Action Foundation$39,60042%
Case Western Reserve University$36,00520%
Chamah$36,0003n/a
The CREW Foundation$31,500234%
Jewish Learning Connection$30,00028%
Matan BSayser of Cleveland Inc$30,00021%
American Jewish Committee$29,22030%
The Metrohealth Foundation Inc$28,50040%
The Bail Project Inc$25,00010%
Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel$25,00010%
Global Language Ambassadors Academy$25,0001n/a
Inmotion$25,00012%
Friends of Breakthrough Schools$25,00020%
Karamu House Inc$24,30011%
Jewish Theological Seminary of America$20,0002n/a
Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation$20,00021%
Semach Sedek R I a S Synagogue$20,0002n/a
Open Books Ltd$20,00020%
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Inc$20,00010%
Piano International Assoc of Northern Oh$19,04051%
Nfx$18,00020%
Hold on to Your Music Inc$15,00013%
Cleveland Film Society$15,00020%
Loyola University of Chicago$15,00020%
The Laura and Alvin Siegal College of Judaic Studies Educational Foundation$13,00012%
Cleveland Botanical Garden$11,00010%
Cleveland Yentas$11,0004n/a
Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc$10,25010%
Cleveland Museum of Natural History$10,00020%
Heights Schools Foundation$10,00015%
College Now Greater Cleveland Inc$10,00010%
The Aronson Cello Festival$10,000122%
Getting Back Up$10,0001n/a
St Vincent Charity Development Foundation$10,00011%
The Shabbos Project Cleveland Inc$10,000212%
The Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at the Ohio State University$10,00020%
Teach for America Inc$10,00010%
The Montefiore Home$10,00010%
The Army Historical Foundation Inc$10,00020%
Cleveland Council on World Affairs$10,00020%
American Society for Yad Vashem Inc$10,00010%
Consortium of African American Organizations$10,000260%
Johns Hopkins University$10,00020%
Shoes and Clothes for Kids$10,00020%
Global Cleveland$10,00011%
University Circle Incorporated$10,00010%
Friendship Circle of Cleveland Inc$10,00011%
Green Road Synagogue$10,0001n/a
Gmiluth Chasodim (The Hebrew Free Loan Association)$9,60021%
Cleveland Ballet$9,5001n/a
Playhouse Square Foundation$8,80030%
American Friends of Rct Inc$8,00010%
Birthright Israel Foundation$8,00020%
Hands Together Inc$8,00030%
Cleveland Hungarian Development Panel$7,7002n/a
Gross Schechter Day School$7,50020%
Cleveland Hillel Foundation Inc$7,50011%
Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio$6,38420%
Grameen Primacare Inc$6,15011%
The Negev Foundation$6,00021%
Northern Ohio Branch of the Int'L Dyslexia Association$6,00023%
Csu Law Alumni Association$6,00022%
Urban Community School$6,00020%
Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland Ohio$6,00010%
Ohio Local Informational Intiative Inc$6,00010%
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation$5,00010%
Ohio Cancer Research Associates$5,00011%
Near West Theatre Inc$5,00020%
Liberia Economic Development Initiative Corporation$5,0002n/a
International Spy Museum$5,00010%
Florida International University Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan$5,00010%
Cleveland Freedom Project$5,0001n/a
Israel Nature and Heritage Foundati$5,00011%
Mothers Against Drunk Driving$5,00020%
Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center Dba Nature Center at Shaker Lakes$5,00010%
Ideastream$5,00020%
Cleveland Chesed Center$5,00011%
North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry Inc$5,00010%
American Friends of the Israel Sport Center for the Disabled$5,00010%
Chaviva High School$5,00011%
Cleveland International Hall of Fame Inc$5,0001n/a
Citymusic Cleveland Inc$5,00011%
Hopewell$5,00020%
Cleveland Metropolitan School District$5,0001n/a
Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio$4,72510%
Ort America Inc$4,68810%
Shaking With Laughter Inc$4,52012%
The Cleveland Play House$4,24020%
Senior Transportation Connection$4,20010%
Montefiore Foundation$4,00010%
Hawken School$4,00020%
Coar Peace Mission Inc$4,00020%
The Gathering Place$3,34020%
Cleveland Pops Orchestra$3,25020%
The Cleveland Institute of Art$3,00030%
Yavne Teachers College$3,00035%
Roosevelt University$3,00010%
St Joseph Academy$3,0003n/a
The Kym Sellers Foundation Inc$3,00024%
Minyan Oneg Shabbat$2,50012%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$2,50010%
Jewish National Fund-Usa Inc$2,5001n/a
International Association of Jewish Genealogical S$2,50011%
NA'AMAT USA The Women's Labor Zionist Organization of America$2,21210%
Planetary Studies Foundation Ltd$2,00022%
Jbi International Inc$2,00020%
Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind$2,00020%
Cleveland Marshall Education Fdn$2,00011%
Cleveland Public Library Foundation$2,00020%
John Carroll University$2,00020%
Rocky River United Methodist Church$2,0002n/a
Smithsonian Institution$2,00020%
The Holden Arboretum$2,00020%
Journey Center for Safety and Healing$2,00020%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$2,00020%
Yesh Tikvah$2,0002100%
St Ignatius High School of Cleveland$2,0002n/a
Help Malawi$2,00020%
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra$2,00020%
Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland$2,00020%
Menorah Park Foundation$2,00010%
Providence House Inc$1,50030%
Workmens Circle Educational Center of Ohio$1,5001n/a
Hearing Health Foundation$1,50030%
Talmudical Academy of Baltimore Inc$1,2502n/a
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism$1,1163n/a
Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity Inc$1,00010%
The Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland$1,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$1,00010%
American Friends of the Parents Circle - Families Forum$1,00010%
World Jewish Congress (American Section) Inc$1,00010%
Junebug Productions Inc$1,00010%
Plexus Education Foundation Inc$1,00012%
None Too Fragile Inc$1,00011%
The Barbara and Abraham Miller Family Foundation$1,0001n/a
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$1,00010%
United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland Inc$1,00010%
Two Foundation Inc Two Cafe & Boutique$1,00010%
The United Church of Christ$1,0001n/a
National Military Family Association$1,00020%
City Mission$1,0002n/a
United Negro College Fund Inc$1,00010%
Congregation Kol Aryeh of Lakewood$1,0002n/a
Kollel Ycm$1,0001n/a
Habitat for Humanity International Inc$1,00010%
Emmanuel Baptist Church Inc$1,0001n/a
The Special Children Center$1,00010%
Lake Erie Council Boy Scouts of America Inc$1,00010%
The Musical Theater Project Inc$1,00020%
Read to Grow Inc$1,00010%
Cuyahoga Valley Preservation and Scenic Railway Association$1,00010%
Cleveland Rape Crisis Center$1,00010%
Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois Inc$1,00020%
Fisher House of Grt Cleveland Inc$1,00011%
The Sculpture Center$75030%
Kent State University Foundation$75030%
Early Childhood Enrichment Center Inc$75030%
Malachi House Inc$75030%
Youth Opportunities Unlimited$75030%
The Elie Wiesel Foundation Inc$75030%
National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund Inc$75030%
Wisconsin Institute for Torah Study$6002n/a
The Mussar Institute$60030%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$50010%
Cleveland School of the Arts Board of Trustees$50010%
Columbia College Chicago$50010%
Cleveland Jewish Sacred Society Inc$5002n/a
Martha's Table Inc$50010%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$50020%
Torah Relief Society Inc Ezras Torah Fund$50020%
Tiger Haven Inc$50020%
Reach Out & Read Greater Cleveland$50010%
Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center$50020%
Independent Montefiore Shelter Home$50010%
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation$50020%
University of Illinois Foundation$50010%
Grow Dat Youth Farm$50010%
Cleveland Society for the Blind$50020%
Yeshiva High School of Cleveland$4002n/a
AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland Inc$40020%
Downtown Cleveland Alliance$34010%
North Coast Community Homes Inc$30030%
March of Dimes Inc$30030%
Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc$30030%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland$30030%
Council Gardens$30030%
Misericordia Home$25010%
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc$25010%
Jewish Family & Children's Service of Southern Arizona Inc$25010%
Multiple Sclerosis Association of America Inc$25010%
Special Olympics Ohio Inc$20010%
University Hospitals Health System Inc$2001n/a
Ezer Mizion$20020%
Coalition to Salute America's Heroes Foundation$20020%
Chn Housing Partners$20020%
Northern Ohio Children's Performing Music Foundation Inc$20020%
Citizens Academy$20010%
The Cleveland Animal Protective League$20020%
Western Reserve Historical Society$10010%
Serenity-Covenant House Inc$1001n/a
Covenant House$10010%
Easter Seals Northern Ohio Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($237k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 191 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $1,444,900 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cleveland: $525,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetGreater Cleveland Food Bank Inc: $145,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCleveland Institute of Music: $120,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage: $105,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetKol Israel Foundation Inc: $98,950 over 4y, 42% of budgetCleveland State University Foundation: $95,660 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $79,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ratner School: $68,200 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCarnegie Endowment for International Peace: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cleveland Police Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetJoseph & Florence Mandel Jewish Day School: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGinn Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetOfeq Institute Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe City Club of Cleveland: $44,520 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCleveland Museum of Art: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFuchs Mizrachi Schools: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Ginn Academy Corporation: $40,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetValues-In-Action Foundation: $39,600 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $36,005 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe CREW Foundation: $31,500 over 2y, 34% of budgetJewish Learning Connection: $30,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetMatan BSayser of Cleveland Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $29,220 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metrohealth Foundation Inc: $28,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bail Project Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInmotion: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFriends of Breakthrough Schools: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKaramu House Inc: $24,300 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCuyahoga County Public Library Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOpen Books Ltd: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPiano International Assoc of Northern Oh: $19,040 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNfx: $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHold on to Your Music Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCleveland Film Society: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLoyola University of Chicago: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Laura and Alvin Siegal College of Judaic Studies Educational Foundation: $13,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCleveland Botanical Garden: $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $10,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCleveland Museum of Natural History: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHeights Schools Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCollege Now Greater Cleveland Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Aronson Cello Festival: $10,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetSt Vincent Charity Development Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Shabbos Project Cleveland Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 12% 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 191.

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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.

Jewish Federation of ClevelandOH123.6× affinity68 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 · The George Gund Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · Abr Family Foundation No 1 · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · The Good Community Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation

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 The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation

How much does The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation give?
The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $2,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 140 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (38%), Philanthropy (25%), Education (13%).
Who are The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Musical Arts Association ($1.4M), United Way of Greater Cleveland ($525k), Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc ($145k).
Does The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family 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 The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Cleveland, The Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation.
Where is The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation based?
The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation is based in OH.

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 269 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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