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Cleve Gray Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY | $51,492 |
| MCNAY MUSEUM | $14,367 |
| EAST SIDE HOUSE SETTLEMENT | $10,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART | $8,620 |
| DAVIDSON COLLEGE | $4,081 |
| CITYARTS INC | $1,000 |
| NORTHWEST CT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CHORE SERVICE INC | $750 |
| WASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| PRIME TIME HOUSE | $500 |
| SALISBURY HOUSING COMMITTEE | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF NEUBERGER MUSEUM | $500 |
| SALISBURY HOUSING TRUST | $500 |
| ARTGARAGE | $100 |
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 (FY21–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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 +50% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k 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
- ESEAST SIDE HOUSE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $63k · revenue +31%
- CSCHORE SERVICE INC3× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +69%
- WSWASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- AAAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERSone grant, 2019 · $51k
- FGFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $51k
- TFTHE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INCone grant, 2021 · $47k · revenue +11%
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.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Hillwood estate, museum & garden's (hillwood) mission is to share the renowned art collections, exceptional gardens and related public and educational programs with a wide and diverse audience. since its opening, hillwood has served…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Frederick Gunn School Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Roothbert Fund 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 49 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 42 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 EAST SIDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds MARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MCNAY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds CHORE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CITYARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROOTHBERT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY HOUSING COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds PRIME TIME HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTWORKS NYC INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EQUUS EFFECT INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MCCALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Anne and Rollin Bates Foundation Inc · The Hallingby Family Foundation Inc · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Low Road Foundation · Torrington Savings Foundation · Foundation for Community Health Inc · The Cowles Charitable Trust · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund
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 Cleve Gray Foundation 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.
- Salisbury Housing Committee Inc — 70% of income from government
- Prime Time House Inc — 50% of income from government
- Mccall Foundation Inc — 41% of income from government
- Salisbury Housing Trust — 25% of income from government
- The Equus Effect Inc — 16% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- American Mural Project Inc — 1% 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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