How much did THE HOROWITZ RATNER FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

Philanthropy$759kEducation$675kArts & Culture$498kInternational$256kRecreation & Sports$202kReligion$138kHealth$112kEnvironment$50kHuman Services$34kOther$1.6M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

endowed

2019

musical artsclevelandendowed

2020

northartsclevelandendowedjewish

2021

jfcscholorshiptributeparkshakerlillian bettycleveland

2022

—

2023

heritagebrooklyn housingeducationcapitalpark synagoguepolicystreet

2025

prismpresencingstreet educationpark synagogueclevelandjewish

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k15 grants · $44k
$10k–50k5 grants · $95k

$3,750

Median grant

States reached

$882k

Total assets

Largest grants

J STREET EDUCATION FUND$30,000
PARK SYNAGOGUE$25,000
PRESENCING INSTITUTE$20,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND$10,000
PRESENCING INSTITUTE$10,000
PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA$5,000
PARK SYNAGOGUE$5,000
JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - JAFI$5,000
GROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL$3,750
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA$3,750
J STREET EDUCATION FUND$2,630
APOLLO'S FIRE THE CLEVELAND BAROQUE ORCHESTRA$2,500
ENCOUNTER PROGRAMS INC$2,500
GLOBAL CLEVELAND$2,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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 6% of THE HOROWITZ RATNER FAMILY 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. Read by recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 75% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

THE HOROWITZ RATNER FAMILY FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 4.2% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.8M · 40 repeat orgs$534k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.8M

$534k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+38%

Still filing today

70%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalReligionHealthOther

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

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THE MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION
7× · 2017–2024 · $412k · revenue +24%
PI
PRESENCING INSTITUTE
3× · 2023–2025 · $222k · revenue +28%
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
5× · 2017–2021 · $200k · revenue +33%

Funded once

AS
AGNON SCHOOLJOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JDS
one grant, 2019 · $150k
PP
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO
one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -9%
FO
FRIENDS OF HORSESHOE LAKE
one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -96%

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

04Your field

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 Foundation of Cincinnati

Philanthropy

Jewish Federation of Cincinnati

The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati brings our community together to care for Jews.

Philanthropy

JewishColumbus

To Enrich Jewish Life & Instill Jewish Pride; Protect Our Community; Connect with Israel & World Jewry; Help Vulnerable Jewish Populations

Religion

Hillel the Foundation of Jewish

Cincinnati Hillel enriches the lives and strengthens the Jewish identity of Jewish college students in Greater Cincinnati and builds bridges to Jewish life after college.

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Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

Academy offering a complete judaic & secular educational program from pre-k through high school.

—

Partners in Torah of Cleveland Inc

To offer all Jews, regardless of affiliation, the opportunity to discover the Torah at their pace and schedule.

Human Services

Clal-the National Jewish Center for

To bring jewish wisdom to the public to ensure a knowledgeable and involved jewish community

Religion

The Mandel Jewish Community Center

The Mandel JCC strengthens the community through our robust programming, including arts & culture, senior adult, camp, and fitness offerings.

Human Services

The Shalom Hartman Institute of

A pluralistic center of research and education deepening and elevating the quality of jewish life in israel and north america.

International

Columbus Jewish Foundation

To ensure a supportive, engaged and vibrant future for the Jewish Community.

Philanthropy

Cleveland Hillel Foundation Inc

Engage and empower jewish young adults through exceptional programming and experiences that foster active jewish life on and off campus and in the cleveland jewish community.

Philanthropy

Jewish Community Foundation of

Philanthropic asset management and grantmaking to both jewish and secular charitable organizations.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Cleveland State University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/54

the rest of the field

6,875/74,252

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.

06the grantee network

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

51/51

Grantees still filing

36/51

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,839,940Philanthropy$759,250Education$674,590Arts & Culture$497,833International$255,500Recreation & Sports$202,000Religion$138,150

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.

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.

Jewish Federation of ClevelandOH51× affinity22 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 · James and Susan Ratner Family Foundation · Ronald and Deborah Ratner Family · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · The Milton and Tamar Maltz · David & Inez Myers Foundation · The Esther and Hyman Rapport · The Joseph and Florence Mandel Family- · Greenleaf Avenue Foundation · Abr Family Foundation No 1

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 organisation THE HOROWITZ RATNER 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FRIENDS OF HORSESHOE LAKE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 873535169 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FRIENDS OF HORSESHOE LAKE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 25% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Horowitz Ratner Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Horowitz Ratner Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE HOROWITZ RATNER FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Horowitz Ratner Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE HOROWITZ RATNER FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Horowitz Ratner Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph