· Public charity
Anne Ray Foundation
Provide meaningful support to some or all designated supported organizations to make a measurable and sustainable difference on our shared priority problems.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+100 grants · $166M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEREA COLLEGE | $8,500,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $6,000,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $5,675,000 |
| YMCA OF THE USA | $5,000,000 |
| PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE (PBS) | $5,000,000 |
| YMCA OF THE USA | $4,000,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS INTERNATIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT | $4,000,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS INTERNATIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT | $4,000,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $3,960,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS INTERNATIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT | $3,833,000 |
| PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE (PBS) | $3,500,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $3,300,000 |
| BEREA COLLEGE | $3,150,000 |
| PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $3,100,000 |
| PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE (PBS) | $3,100,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $235.5M) 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 19% of Anne Ray Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2020–2024 · $127M · revenue +38%
- PBPUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE5× · 2020–2024 · $120M · revenue +27%
National Council of YMCAs of the USA5× · 2020–2024 · $95M · revenue +68%
Funded once
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.
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How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 16 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 NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds National Council of YMCAs of the USA ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds IDYLLWILD ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Mingei International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH ↗
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: 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 Anne Ray Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anne Ray Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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