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The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND POPS ORCHESTRA$2,250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $250 → 15%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 6%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $250 → 10%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $100 → 9%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 6%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $100 → 9%SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $1k → 11%MISERICORDIA HOME: $250 → 14%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC: $5k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC: $5k → 17%SENIOR TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION OF CUYAHOGA COUNT: $4k → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC: $100 → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $100 → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC: $100 → 17%GINN FOUNDATION: $40k → 17%GINN FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%PLEXUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $250 → 17%CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $250 → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $2k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $1k → 17%EARLY CHILDHOOD ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $250 → 17%EARLY CHILDHOOD ENRICHMENT CENTER: $250 → 17%EARLY CHILDHOOD ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $250 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 128 repeat orgs$783k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

128 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 127 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

128
133

Total granted

$4.0M
$783k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+9%

Still filing today

79%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TM
    The Musical Arts Association
    6× · 2018–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +27%
  • GC
    GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $145k · revenue +8%
  • CI
    CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $120k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • JF
    JOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +26%
  • GF
    GINN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -8%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF GINN ACADEMY CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -84% · 25% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
3
JewishColumbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Religion
4
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
5
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
6
Madav Ix Foundation

Further the charitable, educational and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland (federation).

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7
Clal-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc

A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.

Religion
8
Hillel Jewish University Center

To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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9
Ostara

To further the charitable, educational and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland ("federation").

Community Improvement
10
Commission On Cemetery Preservation

Further the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland including the preservation of jewish cemeteries

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11
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
12
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Barbara and Abraham Miller Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

207 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 207 of the 269 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
198/207
Grantees still filing
140/207
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Musical Arts Association: $1,444,900 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts AssociationThe Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage: $105,000 · Arts & CultureThe Maltz Museum of Jewish HeritageThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $79,150 · Arts & Culture+23 more: $246,090 · Arts & Culture+23 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $817,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAN…UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $525,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELA…THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION+6 more: $80,650 · PhilanthropyPARK SYNAGOGUE: $113,000 · OtherPARK SYNAGOGUEKOL ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $98,950 · OtherKOL ISRAEL FOUNDATION INCHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $80,000 · OtherHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELA…MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $65,000 · OtherOfeq Institute Inc: $50,000 · OtherGINN FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherTHE CLEVELAND POLICE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Other+95 more: $785,301 · Other+95 moreCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $120,000 · EducationCLEVELAND INS…CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $95,660 · EducationCLEVELAND STA…THE RATNER SCHOOL: $68,200 · EducationTHE RATNER SC…JOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationJOSEPH & FLOR…THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND: $44,520 · EducationTHE CITY CLUB…FRIENDS OF GINN ACADEMY CORPORATION: $40,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF GI…VALUES-IN-ACTION FOUNDATION: $39,600 · EducationVALUES-IN-ACT…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $36,005 · EducationGLOBAL LANGUAGE AMBASSADORS ACADEMY: $25,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $25,000 · Education+22 more: $174,384 · Education+22 moreAMUDIM COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $28,500 · HealthINMOTION: $25,000 · HealthNFX: $18,000 · HealthTHE MONTEFIORE HOME: $10,000 · Health+8 more: $25,225 · HealthGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $145,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $7,000 · Food & NutritionCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $55,000 · InternationalCLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS: $10,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $8,000 · InternationalHands Together Inc: $8,000 · InternationalCLEVELAND HUNGARIAN DEVELOPMENT PANEL: $7,700 · InternationalTHE NEGEV FOUNDATION: $6,000 · InternationalLIBERIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE CORPORATION: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED: $5,000 · InternationalCOAR PEACE MISSION INC: $4,000 · International+6 more: $11,300 · International
Arts & Culture$1,875,140Philanthropy$1,522,650Other$1,292,251Education$718,369Health$156,725Food & Nutrition$152,000International$120,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $817,000 over 4y, 0.5% 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 budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKOL ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $98,950 over 4y, 42% of budgetCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $95,660 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $80,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 budgetAMUDIM COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO: $32,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 …The Cleveland Foundat…The George Gund Found…Richard Horvitz and E…Abr Family Foundation…The Char and Chuck Fo…John P Murphy Foundat…The Good Community Fo…The Lozick Family Fou…Jack Joseph & Morton …Third Federal Foundat…The Swagelok Foundati…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Special Children Center: 5% of income from government
  • The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
64report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation 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 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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