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The Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$880k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$235k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.2MArts & Culture$1.9MCivil Rights$200kHuman Services$135kEnvironment$130kInternational$110kHousing & Shelter$60kYouth Development$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $705k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM$235,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$120,000
HIGH DESERT MUSEUM$50,000
YMCA - Y SCHOLARS$50,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE DEVELOPMENT$50,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$50,000
COMMUNITY LAND TRUST OF WALDRON ISLAND$25,000
PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER NORTHWEST$25,000
SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST$20,000
KIDS IN NEED OF DEFENSE$20,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$20,000
REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE$15,000
NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIHGTS PROJECT$15,000
SAN JUAN COMMUNITY HOME TRUST$10,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $70k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $30k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $20k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $15k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $25k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $10k → 9%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

WA
MN
NY
OR
PA
CT
CA
DC
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 15 repeat orgs$500k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
10

Total granted

$4.3M
$425k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
0%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • SA
    SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +15%
  • HIGH DESERT MUSEUM
    4× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +39%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $120k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $245k
  • SA
    SEATTLE ASIAN ART MUSEUM
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • UF
    UW FOUNDATION BURKE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
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
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services
2
Kwiaht Center for Salish Sea

Science for stewardship of the san juan islands including studies of long term change in marine and terrestrial species, habitats and food webs

Health
3
Seattle Jobs Initiative

Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.

Employment
4
San Juan Islands Museum of Art

Sjima provides visual art and programming that sparks reflection discovery inspiration and connections.

Unclassified
5
Center for Justice

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.

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6
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
7
Willapa Bay AiR
Arts & Culture
8
Refugee & Immigrant Services Northwest

To promote and facilitate information sharing, policy planning, cooperation and communication among all organizations involved in assisting immigrants, refugees, their sponsors, and other residents.

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9
Friends of Seattle Waterfront

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.

Community Improvement
10
Gender Justice League

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…

Civil Rights
11
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
12
Discover Your Northwest

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.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Immigrant Rights Project; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 32 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YALE UNIVERSITY: $1,220,388 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $598,790 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONYALE UNIVERSITY: $244,899 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYYMCA - Y SCHOLARS: $119,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE DEVELOPMENT: $100,000 · Other+16 more: $260,000 · Other+16 moreSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $1,506,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ART MUSEUMHIGH DESERT MUSEUM: $200,000 · Arts & CultureHIGH DESERT MUSEUMPHOTO CENTER NW: $100,000 · Arts & CulturePHOTO CENTER NWJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $120,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHCARE: $35,000 · Human ServicesRefugee Womens Alliance: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $110,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $100,000 · Civil RightsTHE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST: $35,000 · EnvironmentNORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND: $30,000 · EnvironmentSAN JUAN COMMUNITY HOME TRUST: $25,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,543,077Arts & Culture$1,806,000Human Services$170,000International$110,000Civil Rights$100,000Environment$65,000Housing & Shelter$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $1,506,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetHIGH DESERT MUSEUM: $200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $120,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $110,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHOTO CENTER NW: $100,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetYOUTHCARE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAN JUAN COMMUNITY HOME TRUST: $25,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPUT ME IN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetLONG LIVE THE KINGS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAT HOME GROUP: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMADRONA INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAN JUAN ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Seattle FoundationMightycause Charitabl…The Meeker Rom Grausz…San Juan Island Commu…The GreerSolien FundMorgan Stanley Global…The Norcliffe Foundat…M J Murdock Charitabl…The Oregon Community …The Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Seattle FoundationWA19.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • High Desert Museum: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 32 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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