· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROOM TO READ | $4,363 |
| PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS ASSOCIATION | $4,363 |
| PORCHLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE | $4,363 |
| PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC | $4,363 |
| FIRST BOOK | $4,363 |
| NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC | $4,362 |
| PALESTINE CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND | $4,362 |
| CONSERVANCY GUARDIANS USA FUND INC | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
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.
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…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Max and Betty Ratner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Max and Betty Ratner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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