· Private foundation
The Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $525k
- $250k+5 grants · $131M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $122,714,163 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $2,525,000 |
| RUTH AND NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC | $2,500,000 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC | $2,000,000 |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC | $1,440,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $160,000 |
| RON BROWN SCHOLAR FUND | $150,000 |
| CONQUER CANCER FDN OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY | $115,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH EL OF MONTGOMERY | $100,000 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES INC | $25,000 |
| CHABAD AT DUKE UG INC | $25,000 |
| ST BARTHOLOMEW CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CMCarnegie Mellon University2× · 2024–2025 · $125M · revenue +25%
- SASUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $22M · revenue +113%
- RNRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $12M · revenue +74%
Funded once
- FTFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INCone grant, 2024 · $25M · revenue 0%
- JHJOHNS HOPKINS CHILDREN'S CENTERone grant, 2020 · $1.1M
ROCKETSHIP EDUCATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $261k · revenue +60%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Cesjds is a pre k-12 grade independent day school that delivers an exemplary general and jewish education. our purpose is to ensure a vibrant jewish future by fostering the growth of confident, compassionate thinkers who engage the world…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.
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…
As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…
Advancing a national community to foster equity in dual and concurrent enrollment through accreditation, advocacy, research, and professional development.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Meridian international center is a nonpartisan diplomacy institution founded in 1960 to advance american leadership. headquartered on a historic campus in washington dc, our mission is to empower leaders to advance the next era of…
To prepare students to succeed in competitive colleges and to empower them to use public policy to create a more just, free, and equal world.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc. 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.
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 28 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
46 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. 46 of the 55 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 Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds RUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Montgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ron Brown Scholar Fund ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds KIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds DC PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INGENUITY PREP ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE WASHINGTON LATIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds District of Columbia International School ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds DC ASSOCIATION OF CHARTERED PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION REFORM NOW INC ↗
- Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS OF MAJOR AMERICAN JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS FUND ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds COMBAT HATE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Education Forward DC · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Citybridge Foundation · 50can Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · City Fund · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · RFI Foundation Inc · Bender Foundation Inc · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc
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 Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- Medstar Health Inc — 23% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% of income from government
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital — 0% 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.
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