· Private foundation
The Ragland Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $281k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cise Fund | $1,014,336 |
| CINCINNATI BALLET | $100,000 |
| CISE | $80,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $51,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $50,000 |
| Prokids | $30,000 |
| HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME DE NAMUR | $20,000 |
| Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY - CAMP SWONEKY | $15,000 |
| Cincinnati Art Museum | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| MEMORIAL HALL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $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 (FY17–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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
- TCThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +64%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER2× · 2017–2018 · $500k · revenue +53%
- GFGREENLIGHT FUND INC4× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- CPCISE - parent programone grant, 2024 · $256k
- MMMARGARET MARY HEALTH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $210k · revenue 0%
- GUGREEN UMBRELLAone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -70%
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.
To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
The Cleveland Christian Home, Inc. exists to be a haven of hope for children, youth, and families struggling with mental illness, abuse, and neglect in Northeast Ohio.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
Chmc community health services network ("chsn") is organized and operated exclusively to support cincinnati children's hospital medical center ("cchmc") in cchmc's efforts to provide medical services to all of the children in the community.
We, mount carmel health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mount carmel health system is a member of trinity health.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
The organization's mission is to improve the health status of the community it serves.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Turner Farm Preservation 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 45 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 53 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 The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MARGARET MARY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CISE ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds BEECHWOOD HOME ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Christ Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds GREEN UMBRELLA ↗
- Who funds The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL 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: Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Farmer Family Foundation · The Heidt Family Foundation · Williams Foundation · Hcs Foundation · The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · The Wyler Family Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial
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 Ragland Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% 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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