· Private foundation
The Max and Betty 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORCHLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE | $4,363 |
| ROOM TO READ | $4,363 |
| FIRST BOOK | $4,363 |
| PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS ASSOCIATION | $4,363 |
| PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC | $4,363 |
| NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC | $4,362 |
| CONSERVANCY GUARDIANS USA FUND INC | $4,362 |
| PALESTINE CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND | $4,362 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,146 |
| HAMMER MUSEUM | $2,146 |
| CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING | $1,063 |
| CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $1,063 |
| OPEN BOOKS LTD | $1,063 |
| ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE | $1,063 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of your 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.
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.
Develops legal and technical infrastructure for digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.
Public knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. we work to shape policy on behalf of the public interest.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
Please see schedule o for complete description of the organization's mission.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
To make high-quality literacy materials accessible to teachers and the general public for the advancement of education.
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…
Cprs mission is to harness the insights and experiences of its members to prevent and resolve business disputes.we do this by:(see schedule o)- convening a community of members to generate innovative and best practice resources to prevent…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
The organization's mission is to preserve the western armenian language; createoriginal picture books, contemporary graphic novels, young adult books, andclassroom resources in western armenian; create audio books of all books…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Physicians for Human Rights Inc and the most unlike its peers is Psychophysiologic Disorders Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 18 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 LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds Psychophysiologic Disorders Association ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds Conservancy Guardians USA Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds OPEN BOOKS LTD ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING ↗
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.
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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 Max and Betty 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.
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% 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.