· Private foundation
Bray Family Foundation Robert Bray Esq
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of BRAY FAMILY FOUNDATION ROBERT BRAY ESQ’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $500 |
| PEACE AND SHAKE | $500 |
| ST ANDREWS EPICOSOPAL CHURCH | $500 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL CHURCH | $500 |
| WHYY | $250 |
| FORGOTTEN CATS INC | $250 |
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, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- GSGemma Services6× · 2017–2023 · $16k · revenue +101%
- FTFACE TO FACE INC4× · 2018–2023 · $12k · revenue +70%
- AFANGEL FLIGHT EAST4× · 2017–2021 · $11k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- KHKEYSTONE HOSPICEone grant, 2024 · $25k
- BWBirthday Wishes Incone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +8%
- NFNIGHTLIFE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $4k
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.
Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
The children's home of pittsburgh, established in 1893, is an independent, non-profit licensed organization whose purpose is to promote the health and well-being of infants and children through services which establish and strengthen the…
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
Mission: we listen, care and help. every day. vision: a community where anyone can achieve their full potential. programs: our services treat mental health issues; reduce substance use; shelter, feed, educate and seek permanent housing for…
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
Melmark is a human services provider with premier private special education schools, professional development, training, and research centers. melmark is committed to enhancing the lives of individuals within diverse communities with…
The mission of peace place is to give hope and respite to families with children who have medical and/or diverse, specialized needs. peace place offers skilled, purposeful childcare in an inclusive setting, caregiver support, and education…
The foundation is organized to provide aid and support to individuals and families suffering from the consequences of living with cancer.
Bethanna is a christian non-profit social service organization providing services to children and families in philadelphia, southeastern and central pennsylvania. founded as a bible and missionary organization, bethanna whose name means…
Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradles to Crayons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bux-Mont Meals On Wheels 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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 74 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 Gemma Services ↗
- Who funds FACE TO FACE INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT EAST ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAINBOW INC ↗
- Who funds SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds TODAY IS A GOOD DAY ↗
- Who funds MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE ACCESS ↗
- Who funds SIMON'S FUND ↗
- Who funds Pegasus Therapeutic Riding Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds Brave Hearts for Strong Minds ↗
- Who funds Birthday Wishes Inc ↗
- Who funds LA SALLE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Why Not Prosper Inc ↗
- Who funds SHARE FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds SHAMROCK REINS ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds DAWN'S PLACE ↗
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: 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
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 Bray Family Foundation Robert Bray Esq 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.
- Forgotten Cats Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% 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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