· Private foundation
The Brooks and Suzanne Ragen 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of THE BROOKS AND SUZANNE RAGEN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $705k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE ART MUSEUM | $235,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $120,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE DEVELOPMENT | $50,000 |
| HIGH DESERT MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $50,000 |
| YMCA - Y SCHOLARS | $50,000 |
| PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER NORTHWEST | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY LAND TRUST OF WALDRON ISLAND | $25,000 |
| KIDS IN NEED OF DEFENSE | $20,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $20,000 |
| SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST | $20,000 |
| REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIHGTS PROJECT | $15,000 |
| SAN JUAN COMMUNITY THEATRE | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- SASEATTLE ART MUSEUM7× · 2019–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +15%
HIGH DESERT MUSEUM4× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +39%- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE3× · 2023–2025 · $120k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $245k
- SASEATTLE ASIAN ART MUSEUMone grant, 2018 · $50k
- UFUW FOUNDATION BURKE MUSEUMone grant, 2019 · $30k
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.
The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.
Science for stewardship of the san juan islands including studies of long term change in marine and terrestrial species, habitats and food webs
Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.
Sjima provides visual art and programming that sparks reflection discovery inspiration and connections.
The Center for Justice's mission is to empower the people and communities of the Inland Northwest. We accomplish our mission through direct representation and advocacy focused on systemic change to achieve social and environmental justice.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
To promote and facilitate information sharing, policy planning, cooperation and communication among all organizations involved in assisting immigrants, refugees, their sponsors, and other residents.
To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.
Gender Justice League's mission is to empower all people to eliminate discrimination and prejudice based on sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation in Washington State, and to ensure that trans and gender diverse…
To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and the most unlike its peers is The Center for Victims of Torture. 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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 32 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 SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HIGH DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds PHOTO CENTER NW ↗
- Who funds THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN COMMUNITY HOME TRUST ↗
- Who funds PUT ME IN INC ↗
- Who funds KIND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Refugee Womens Alliance ↗
- Who funds LONG LIVE THE KINGS ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS ↗
- Who funds MADRONA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds AT HOME GROUP ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIDAY HARBOR FOOD BANK ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Meeker Rom Grausz Family Foundation · San Juan Island Community Foundation · The GreerSolien Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Norcliffe Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Family 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.
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
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.