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Clare and Robert Gray Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$46k
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

International$52kEducation$42kHealth$39kPhilanthropy$21kHuman Services$18kArts & Culture$16kYouth Development$12kReligion$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$575
Median grant
17
States reached
$526k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sylvia's Children$4,250
Tawawami Childrens Project$4,000
Fisher House Foundation$2,000
For His Children-Ecuador$2,000
Innocence Project$2,000
USO$2,000
Help the Helpless$2,000
Operation Homefront$2,000
Special Olympics of NJ$2,000
Refugees Helping Refugees$2,000
Community Foundation of NJ$1,100
Year Up United$1,000
Peace of Mind Dog Rescue$1,000
CASA of Monmouth County$1,000
Mercy Ships$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Children of the Night: $500 → 14%Refugees Helping Refugees: $2k → 14%Innocence Project: $2k → 17%Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide: $500 → 6%Stephanie Nicole Parze Foundation: $500 → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
WI
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OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
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DE
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$177k · 51 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
79

Total granted

$177k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+28%

Still filing today

47%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesReligionEnvironmentOther

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

  • Cornell University
    5× · 2018–2022 · $29k · revenue +49%
  • SC
    Sylvia's Children Inc
    5× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +70%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • HM
    Hackensack Meridian Health Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +80%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • RM
    Riverview Medical Center
    one grant, 2019 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
5
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
6
United States Naval Institute

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.

7
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

8
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
9
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
10
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tigger Stavola Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Community FoundationsImmigrant Worker SupportMilitary Veterans SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterHealth Access Advocacy and …Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…School District FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr11%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr11%28%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/73
the rest of the field
12%
6,333/52,219

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.

04the grantee network

63 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 158 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/63
Grantees still filing
43/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TAWAWAMI CHILDRENS PROJECT — $11,000 · OtherTAWAWAMI CHILDRENS PROJECTIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRiverview Medical Center — $10,000 · OtherRiverview Medical CenterRiverview Medical Foundation — $10,000 · OtherRiverview Medical FoundationIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherCount Basie Center — $5,000 · OtherCommunity Foundation of NJ — $4,400 · Other+117 more — $73,766 · Other+117 moreSylvia's Children Inc — $17,250 · InternationalSylvia's Children IncMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $12,700 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIE…HELP THE HELPLESS — $9,000 · InternationalHELP THE HELPLESSORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC — $9,000 · InternationalORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN IN…Matthew 25 Ministries Inc — $3,000 · InternationalMatthew 25 Ministries…Mercy Ships International — $2,500 · InternationalCornell University — $29,415 · EducationCornell UniversityMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC — $10,250 · EducationMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY…William Marsh Rice University — $2,500 · Education+8 more — $7,110 · Education+8 moreTHE KHALED HOSSEINI FOUNDATION — $12,300 · PhilanthropyRUMSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $5,620 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $3,300 · PhilanthropyHackensack Meridian Health Inc — $10,200 · HealthMONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500 · HealthSHORE CLUBHOUSE INC — $500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 · Health+1 more — $100 · HealthCOUNT BASIE THEATRE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEES HELPING REFUGEES INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesChildren of the Night — $500 · Human ServicesSTEPHANIE NICOLE PARZE FOUNDATION INC — $500 · Human ServicesSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF TEEN SUICIDE INC — $500 · Human Services+1 more — $120 · Human Services
Other$129,166International$53,450Education$49,275Philanthropy$21,220Health$13,800Arts & Culture$10,000Human Services$5,620

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCornell University — $29,415 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSylvia's Children Inc — $17,250 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $12,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KHALED HOSSEINI FOUNDATION — $12,300 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC — $10,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHackensack Meridian Health Inc — $10,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNT BASIE THEATRE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELP THE HELPLESS — $9,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRUMSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $5,620 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $3,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget200 CLUB OF MONMOUTH COUNTY INC — $2,400 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEES HELPING REFUGEES INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES — $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUNCH BREAK INC — $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTIGGER STAVOLA FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCFA INSTITUTE — $1,423 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOVE A CHILD HIGHER INC — $1,090 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE RUMSON FIRST AID SQUAD INC OF RUMSON NEW JERSEY — $1,075 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MONMOUTH COUNTY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUMSON PTO — $890 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNutritionfactsorg Inc — $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of the Night — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHANIE NICOLE PARZE FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRumson Fair Haven Youth Football Inc — $500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHORE CLUBHOUSE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KORTNEY ROSE FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMONMOUTH PARK CHARITY FUND INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF TEEN SUICIDE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Cornell University
  • Who funds Sylvia's Children Inc
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds THE KHALED HOSSEINI FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds Hackensack Meridian Health Inc
  • Who funds COUNT BASIE THEATRE INC
  • Who funds HELP THE HELPLESS
  • Who funds ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC
  • Who funds RUMSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY
  • Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International
  • Who funds 200 CLUB OF MONMOUTH COUNTY INC
  • Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC
  • Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds REFUGEES HELPING REFUGEES INC
  • Who funds WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES
  • Who funds LUNCH BREAK INC
  • Who funds TIGGER STAVOLA FOUNDATION

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.

Oceanfirst FoundationNJ28.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oceanfirst Foundation · The Ansell Grimm & Aaron Foundation Inc · Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Jam Anonymous Foundation Inc · The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Investors Foundation Inc · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Verizon Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Ginny L Clements Charitable Trust

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 Clare and Robert Gray Charitable 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 160%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Shore Clubhouse Inc7% of income from government
  • Lunch Break Inc4% of income from government
  • Family Promise Inc2% of income from government
  • Count Basie Theatre Inc2% of income from government
  • American Littoral Society1% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Clare and Robert Gray Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Clare and Robert Gray Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 158 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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