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The Horowitz 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.

$139k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Religion$1.1MPhilanthropy$777kEducation$731kArts & Culture$623kInternational$327kScience & Tech$222kRecreation & Sports$200kHealth$135kOther$0
02FY2025 · 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
5
States reached
$996k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
J STREET EDUCATION FUND$30,000
PARK SYNAGOGUE$25,000
PRESENCING INSTITUTE$20,000
PRESENCING INSTITUTE$10,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND$10,000
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA$5,000
PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION$5,000
PARK SYNAGOGUE$5,000
JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - JAFI$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA$3,750
GROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL$3,750
J STREET EDUCATION FUND$2,630
APOLLO'S FIRE THE CLEVELAND BAROQUE ORCHESTRA$2,500
GLOBAL CLEVELAND$2,500
ENCOUNTER PROGRAMS INC$2,500
02The need
03

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, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING & SERVICES: $6k → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING & SERVICES: $1k → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING & SERVICES: $1k → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING & SERVICES: $1k → 20%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $5k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $5k → 17%JEWISH AGENCY-AMERICAN SECTION INC: $8k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $5k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $3k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
DC
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% 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.

The Horowitz Ratner Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.3% 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 37 repeat orgs$491k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
35

Total granted

$3.2M
$491k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+3%

Still filing today

86%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthReligionInternationalCivil RightsOther

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

  • TM
    The Musical Arts Association
    7× · 2017–2024 · $412k · revenue +45%
  • JF
    JOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $350k · revenue +51%
  • PI
    PRESENCING INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $222k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • AS
    AGNON SCHOOLJOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JDS
    one grant, 2019 · $150k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF HORSESHOE LAKE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -99%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%

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.

1
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

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2
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
3
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
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
Fuchs Mizrachi Schools

The mission of fuchs mizrachi school is to educate each child in the orthodox jewish religious zionist tradition, imbued with the love of g-d, torah, people and the land of israel.

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6
Ostara

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

Community Improvement
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
Madav Ix Foundation

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

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9
JewishColumbus

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

Religion
10
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
11
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
12
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Longboat Key Foundation Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr12%7%5–10yr21%16%10–20yr14%18%20–35yr16%29%35–55yr20%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr12%3%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr14%3%20–35yr16%7%35–55yr20%72%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/64
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,242

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.

05the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
38/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PARK SYNAGOGUE — $849,953 · OtherPARK SYNAGOGUEIndividual grant recipient — $195,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAGNON SCHOOLJOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JDS — $150,000 · OtherAGNON SCHOOLJOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JDSJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - JAFI — $83,019 · OtherTHE LILLIAN & BETTY RATNER SCHOOL — $82,500 · Other+34 more — $378,783 · Other+34 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND — $583,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION O…UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $80,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREAT…THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION — $62,500 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEVELAND FOUND…THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $31,500 · Philanthropy+2 more — $11,000 · PhilanthropyJOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $350,000 · EducationJOSEPH & FLORENCE…PRESENCING INSTITUTE INC — $221,590 · EducationPRESENCING INSTIT…OPEN BOOKS LTD — $30,000 · EducationTHE RATNER SCHOOL — $23,750 · Education+6 more — $55,250 · Education+6 moreThe Musical Arts Association — $412,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Ar…ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $50,335 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMMER …FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGNS INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF BEZ…Playhouse Square Foundation — $25,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $14,333 · Arts & CultureENCOUNTER PROGRAMS INC — $179,500 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND — $61,000 · InternationalISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC — $40,000 · InternationalJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $30,000 · International+2 more — $6,000 · InternationalNorthwestern University — $200,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $87,300 · ReligionYASHRUT NORTH AMERICA — $20,000 · ReligionGROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL — $18,750 · ReligionJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO — $12,200 · ReligionFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC — $6,000 · Religion
Other$1,739,255Philanthropy$768,000Education$680,590Arts & Culture$571,668International$316,500Recreation & Sports$202,000Religion$144,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND — $583,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association — $412,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $350,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPRESENCING INSTITUTE INC — $221,590 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNorthwestern University — $200,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENCOUNTER PROGRAMS INC — $179,500 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $87,300 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION — $62,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $61,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $50,335 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGNS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF HORSESHOE LAKE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMILESTONES AUTISM RESOURCES — $36,183 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $31,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN BOOKS LTD — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOhio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEDISYS HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RATNER SCHOOL — $23,750 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGLOBAL CLEVELAND — $22,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetYASHRUT NORTH AMERICA — $20,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL — $18,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO — $12,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHANNA PERKINS SCHOOL — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINMOTION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CITY CLUB FORUM FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKOL ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH AGENCY - AMERICAN SECTION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHAKER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCSU LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $6,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $4,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPOLLO'S FIRE BAROQUE — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY — $3,333 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

James and Susan Ratne…Ronald and Deborah Ra…Jewish Federation of …The Albert B & Audrey…The Cleveland Foundat…The Esther and Hyman …The Miller Family Fou…Greenleaf Avenue Foun…Marla & Joseph Shafra…Richard Horvitz and E…The George Gund Found…Jack Joseph & Morton …
James and Susan Ratner Family FoundationOH57.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: James and Susan Ratner Family Foundation · Ronald and Deborah Ratner Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust · The Miller Family Foundation · Greenleaf Avenue Foundation · Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel 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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Presencing Institute Inc — 28% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
22report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Horowitz Ratner Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Horowitz 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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