· Private foundation
The Brian 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $137k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $41,000 |
| ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME MUSEUM INC | $30,000 |
| ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION | $26,000 |
| BRAVO COLORADO AT VAIL-BEAVER CREEK | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC | $10,000 |
| BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MILE HIGH UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $5,000 |
| GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The Brian Ratner Foundation’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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DSDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION5× · 2019–2025 · $375k · revenue +33%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC7× · 2019–2025 · $275k · revenue +67%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2025 · $159k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- RAROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $65k
- SBST BALDRICK'S - NCCFone grant, 2021 · $30k
- TRTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue +80%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
82 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. 82 of the 107 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS SYMPHONY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Baylor Health Care System Foundation ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE D/B/A LEAGUE OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF PALM SPRINGS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS ↗
- Who funds BRAVO COLORADO AT BEAVER CREEK-VAIL INC DBA BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FALLEN HERO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR PUERTO RICO INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Nafzger Family Foundation · Viola Foundation Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Barry K Schwartz Family Foundation · Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc · The Riggio Foundation · Carol Bernick Family Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Tracy Farmer Foundation Inc · Mary K Oxley Foundation · The Lewis Family Charitable 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 The Brian Ratner Foundation 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.
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.
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