· Private foundation
Anita a Ray 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER | $10,000 |
| THE STEWPOT | $10,000 |
| THE BRIDGE | $10,000 |
| DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE FAMILY PLACE | $10,000 |
| WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER | $9,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF TYLER | $8,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY DFW METROPLEX | $8,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $7,000 |
| EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER | $7,000 |
| GREATER DALLAS YOUTH ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $373k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFThe Family Place9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +6%
- WCWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +174%
- DCDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMY OF TYLERone grant, 2025 · $8k
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.
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.
To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.
The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Provide dental, general pediatric, and pediatric sub-specialty services, including, but not limited to emergency department coverage, inpatient coverage, orthopedic surgery, and craniofacial orthodontics regardless of payor source or…
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.
Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.
Dallas contemporary presents art in a forum that cultivates artists, ignites learning and inspires the community. dallas contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national and…
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.
Dispute resolution center provides accessible high-quality dispute resolution services such as mediation, arbitration and training for all people in the travis county area.
Children's advocacy centers of texas, inc. (cactx) is the statewide organization for its 70 children's advocacy centers (cac's) across texas. cactx leads efforts, in partnership with investigatory and prosecution agencies, to pursue…
To bring together community resources to speed the healing of child victims of abuse and trauma.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Anita a Ray Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anita a Ray Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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