How much does The Raether Family Charitable Trust give?

The Raether Family Charitable Trust reported 62 grants totaling $7,256,142 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 72 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does The Raether Family Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (72%), Recreation & Sports (11%), Health (7%).

Who are The Raether Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Trinity College ($8.3M), Greenwich Academy Inc ($2.2M), United States Ski Team Foundation ($1.7M).

Does The Raether Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Raether Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Raether Family Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Ziegler Family Foundation Inc, The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation.

Where is The Raether Family Charitable Trust based?

The Raether Family Charitable Trust is based in FL.

The Raether Family Charitable Trust

The Raether Family Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$7.3M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$3.5M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$28MRecreation & Sports$4.3MHealth$2.8MPhilanthropy$1.5MYouth Development$648kArts & Culture$483kAnimals$376kEnvironment$149kOther$0

02FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k37 grants · $137k
$10k–50k18 grants · $294k
$50k–250k4 grants · $418k
$250k+3 grants · $6.4M

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$38M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BELVOIR CASTLE	$15,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS	$15,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$31M · 87 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$31M

$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+8%

Still filing today

83%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $239k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 COLLEGE
6× · 2019–2024 · $8.3M · revenue +49%
US
United States Ski Team Foundation
6× · 2019–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +88%
US
UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $527k · revenue +11%

Funded once

TC
TRINITY COLLEGE - DREAM CAMP
one grant, 2019 · $597k
WT
WY TRANSFER TO US SKI & SNOW
one grant, 2019 · $227k
4S
4-CT STATEWIDE COVID-19 RELIEF FUND
one grant, 2020 · $100k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

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.

The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

University of New Haven

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…

Education

United States Naval Institute

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.

—

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—

Furman University

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.

Education

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

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…

Community Improvement

Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Academy Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

108 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. 108 of the 143 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

108/108

Grantees still filing

74/108

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$17,088,714Education$15,757,263Recreation & Sports$3,153,845Philanthropy$1,454,500Arts & Culture$438,265Health$163,000Environment$141,650

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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY27.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Raether Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Raether Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

26get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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