· Private foundation
W Russell and Norma Ramsey Foundation Inc
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $109k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE POTOMAC SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| ROBIN HOOD | $109,000 |
| MONUMENTAL SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| FIRST TEE - GREATER WASHINGTON DC | $20,000 |
| DON BOSCO CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| THE WASHINGTON BALLET | $15,000 |
| COMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET | $10,000 |
| UMD COLLEGE PARK | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $10,000 |
| ELS FOR AUTISM | $5,000 |
| BETHESDA COMMUNITY BASEBALL CLUB | $2,500 |
| NICHOLAS BARTON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k 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
- TPThe Potomac School7× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +31%
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC2× · 2017–2022 · $75k · revenue +4%
- CRCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- GWGREATER WASHINGTON PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2021 · $320k · revenue -41%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATEone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +16%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER WASHINGTONone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +7%
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.
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.
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
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…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
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.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fight for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 34 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.
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.
44 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. 44 of the 63 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.
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- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
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- Who funds MONUMENTAL SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds USTA PLAYER DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE ↗
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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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Mody Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Scott and Patrice Brickman Family Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Northrop Grumman Foundation · Annie E Casey 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 W Russell and Norma Ramsey Foundation Inc 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Yellow Ribbon Fund 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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