How much did THE NORMAN R RALES AND RUTH RALES grant in FY2024?

Education$41MCivil Rights$25MHealth$11MInternational$250kArts & Culture$159kPhilanthropy$130kHuman Services$111kFood & Nutrition$40kCommunity Improvement$25kOther$4.4M

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

2020

children'sgreatereducationjewish

2021

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2022

kippjewish

2023

jewish

2024

jewisheducation

2025

montgomery

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

03FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $11k
$10k–50k7 grants · $150k
$50k–250k3 grants · $415k
$250k+5 grants · $36M

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$185M

Total assets

Largest grants

FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC$25,000,000
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC$4,830,000
RUTH AND NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC$2,560,811
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$2,020,788
MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC$2,000,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$150,000
RON BROWN SCHOLAR FUND$150,000
CONQUER CANCER FDN OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY$115,000
EDUCATION REFORM NOW INC$30,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COUNCIL$25,000
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE$25,000
CHABAD AT DUKE UG INC$25,000
SCOTLAND AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH$20,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC$15,000
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE$10,000

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 (FY20–24, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7% — the area typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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.

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$52M · 21 repeat orgs$30M to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$52M

$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+55%

Still filing today

86%

69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureReligionOther

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

SA
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $20M · revenue +77%
RA
RUTH AND NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $10.0M · revenue +141%
KF
KIPP FOUNDATION
2× · 2022–2023 · $6.0M · revenue +12%

Funded once

JH
JOHNS HOPKINS CHILDREN'S CENTER
one grant, 2020 · $1.1M
MC
MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FND
one grant, 2021 · $281k
ROCKETSHIP EDUCATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $261k · revenue +80%

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.

Georgetown University

Georgetown university is one of the world's leading academic and research institutions. established in 1789, georgetown is the nation's oldest catholic and jesuit university.

Education

The Seed Public Charter School of

The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…

Education

Global Citizens Public Charter School

Global citizens school's mission is to inspire and prepare the next generation of global citizens. we will do this by supporting students, ages 3-11, to reach their full academic and leadership potential in a nurturing learning…

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Capital City Public Charter School Inc

The organization's mission is to enable a diverse group of children to meet high expectations, develop creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and achieve a deep understanding of complex subjects, while acquiring a love of…

Education

Bronx Charter School for Excellence

Charter school based in various sections of the bronx, serving grades k-8. the school was established to prepare young people from new york city to compete for admission to, and succeed in, top public, private, and parochial schools. bcse…

Education

Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc

Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose - college, career, and beyond - so they can lead fulfilling lives…

Education

Bullis School

Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…

Education

Abraham Joshua Heschel School

The abraham joshua heschel school is an independent jewish day school (continued on schedule o)which includes students from a wide range of jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs.

Education

Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education

Akiva School

A private jewish day school which provides academic and judaic studies for k-6.

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Digital Pioneers Academy Public

The mission of digital pioneers academy (dpa) is to develop the next generation of innovators. we prepare students to meet or exceed the highest academic standards, while cultivating the strength of character necessary to both graduate…

Education

Achievement Preparatory Academy

To prepare students to excel as high-achieving scholars and leaders in high school, college and beyond.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipp Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Occidental College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/45

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,520

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

42 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)

41/42

Grantees still filing

34/42

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$40,691,614Civil Rights$25,050,000Health$10,595,811Other$4,538,896International$250,000Arts & Culture$159,332Philanthropy$130,000

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.

Education Forward DCDC24.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Education Forward DC · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz · Charter Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Citybridge Foundation · City Fund · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc · 50can Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund

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 NORMAN R RALES AND RUTH RALES 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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: MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +83% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 521804509 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 MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 56% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales?

Find your warmest path to The Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales 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 NORMAN R RALES AND RUTH RALES

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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales?

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THE NORMAN R RALES AND RUTH RALES

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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales?

More from the funding graph