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The Raether Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $137k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $294k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $418k
- $250k+3 grants · $6.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUSTEES OF TRINITY COLLEGE | $3,469,696 |
| THE AMOS TUCK SCHOOL | $2,605,113 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY | $333,333 |
| US SKI & SNOWBOARD FOUNDATION | $167,500 |
| MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART | $150,000 |
| METROSQUASH | $50,000 |
| UNITED STATES SQUASH RACQUETS ASSOCATION | $50,000 |
| GREENWICH ACADEMY | $43,500 |
| THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| WENDY NOVAK DIABETES INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| HUMANE EQUINE AID AND RAPID TRANSPORT INC | $20,000 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ROAD TO THE TOP INC | $20,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $15,000 |
| PALM BEACH ZOO & CONSERVATION | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those 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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $239k 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
TRINITY COLLEGE6× · 2019–2024 · $8.3M · revenue +49%- USUnited States Ski Team Foundation6× · 2019–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +88%
- USUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $527k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- TCTRINITY COLLEGE - DREAM CAMPone grant, 2019 · $597k
- WTWY TRANSFER TO US SKI & SNOWone grant, 2019 · $227k
- 4S4-CT STATEWIDE COVID-19 RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2020 · $100k
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Olalashe 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.
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 38 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
108 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. 108 of the 143 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 TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROSQUASH NFP ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES SQUASH RACQUETS ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Ski and Snowboard Club Vail ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc ↗
- Who funds COMPASSIONATE PUG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS ↗
- Who funds HUMANE EQUINE AID & RAPID TRANSPORT INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds BRAVO COLORADO AT BEAVER CREEK-VAIL INC DBA BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds STRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAFE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ziegler Family Foundation Inc · The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Eric Gleacher Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · A Haigh Cundey Foundation · Ussga Memorial Fund Inc · Harrison Foundation Xxxxx3001 · The Marie-Josee and Henry R Kravis Foundation · The Broder Family 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 Raether Family Charitable Trust 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.
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 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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