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Bray Family Foundation Robert Bray Esq

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$500
Organizations funded a year
8 to 22
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$685k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Bray Family Foundation Robert Bray Esq funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$3k17%
FY20248$30k38%
FY20239$16k22%
FY202215$27k60%
FY202116$29k38%
FY202014$25k36%
FY201922$40k55%
FY201822$40k91%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$49kHuman Services$38kEducation$37kRecreation & Sports$26kFood & Nutrition$16kPhilanthropy$16kArts & Culture$13kReligion$9kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Gemma Services$15,50060%
Face to Face Inc$12,10040%
Angel Flight East$10,50040%
Camp Rainbow Inc$10,00026%
Settlement Music School of Philadelphia$9,50040%
Cradles to Crayons Inc$8,00070%
Peace & Shake$8,0007n/a
Today Is a Good Day$7,50022%
Health Care Access$6,00040%
Simon's Fund$6,00031%
Show all 33 grantees
All grantees of Bray Family Foundation Robert Bray Esq by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Gemma Services$15,50060%
Face to Face Inc$12,10040%
Angel Flight East$10,50040%
Camp Rainbow Inc$10,00026%
Settlement Music School of Philadelphia$9,50040%
Cradles to Crayons Inc$8,00070%
Peace & Shake$8,0007n/a
Today Is a Good Day$7,50022%
Health Care Access$6,00040%
Simon's Fund$6,00031%
Mattie N Dixon Community Cupboard Inc$6,0002n/a
Brave Hearts for Strong Minds$5,50034%
Pegasus Therapeutic Riding Academy Inc$5,50021%
La Salle Academy$5,00020%
Birthday Wishes Inc$5,0001n/a
Why Not Prosper Inc$3,50011%
Breakthrough of Greater Philadelphia$3,00011%
Shamrock Reins$3,00012%
Share Food Program$3,00010%
Stephens Rise and Grind$2,5001n/a
Whyy Inc$2,50060%
Dawn's Place$2,50010%
Mommy Sues Children$1,2501n/a
Shanes Kindness$1,0001n/a
Speakup$1,00010%
Concern Inc$1,0001n/a
Bux-Mont Meals on Wheels Inc$1,00011%
Quest Therapeutic Services Inc$1,00010%
Sneakers for Soldiers Inc$1,00010%
Brendas Cat Rescue Inc$5001n/a
Abbeys Bakery$5001n/a
Forgotten Cats Inc$50020%
Foundation of the Rotary Club of Chestnut Hill$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($88k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bray Family Foundation Robert Bray Esq supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGemma Services: $15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFace to Face Inc: $12,100 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAngel Flight East: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Rainbow Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetSettlement Music School of Philadelphia: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCradles to Crayons Inc: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetToday Is a Good Day: $7,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHealth Care Access: $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSimon's Fund: $6,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBrave Hearts for Strong Minds: $5,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetPegasus Therapeutic Riding Academy Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLa Salle Academy: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWhy Not Prosper Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBreakthrough of Greater Philadelphia: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetShamrock Reins: $3,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetShare Food Program: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhyy Inc: $2,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDawn's Place: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSpeakup: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBux-Mont Meals on Wheels Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetQuest Therapeutic Services Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSneakers for Soldiers Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetForgotten Cats Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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 Philadelphia FoundationPA24.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jaymar Foundation · Steven and Ilene Berman Family Foundation Inc · Genuardi Family Foundation · Phillies Charities Inc · The Cigna Group Foundation

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.

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About Bray Family Foundation Robert Bray Esq

How much does Bray Family Foundation Robert Bray Esq give?
Bray Family Foundation Robert Bray Esq reported 6 grants totaling $2,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Bray Family Foundation Robert Bray Esq fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (21%), Human Services (16%), Education (16%).
Who are Bray Family Foundation Robert Bray Esq's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gemma Services ($16k), Face to Face Inc ($12k), Angel Flight East ($11k).
Does Bray Family Foundation Robert Bray Esq fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bray Family Foundation Robert Bray Esq accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bray Family Foundation Robert Bray Esq?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Connelly Foundation, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey.
Where is Bray Family Foundation Robert Bray Esq based?
Bray Family Foundation Robert Bray Esq is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 74 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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