Kansas · Private foundation
Cloud L Cray Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $300k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 28
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Cloud L Cray Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $300k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $295k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $336k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $319k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $462k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $370k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $190k | 47% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $396k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sparkwheel Inc | $210,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Kansas Council on Economic Education | $145,347 | 6 | 12% |
| Sifma Foundation for Investor Education (Fie) Inc | $145,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Boys Club of Greater Kansas City | $115,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Atchison Amelia Earhart Foundation | $80,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Youth Volunteer Corps | $75,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Hope Family Therapy Inc | $57,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Theatre Atchison Inc | $52,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Harvesters - the Community Food Network | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Atchison County Historical Society | $41,500 | 6 | 36% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cloud L Cray Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Courtney S Turner Charitable Trust · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Cloud L Cray and Sara J Cray Family Foundation · Evah C Cray Residuary Charitable Trust Sawmill Trust Company Trustee · Adair-Exchange Bank Foundation · Guy I Bromley Residuary Trust · Greater Manhattan Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Laidacker M & Karen L Seaberg Seaberg Family Foundation · Pratt Family Charitable Foundation · Muchnic Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee
How this is measured
About Cloud L Cray Foundation
- How much does Cloud L Cray Foundation give?
- Cloud L Cray Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $300,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Cloud L Cray Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (25%), Education (21%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Cloud L Cray Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sparkwheel Inc ($210k), Kansas Council on Economic Education ($145k), Sifma Foundation for Investor Education (Fie) Inc ($145k).
- Does Cloud L Cray Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cloud L Cray Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cloud L Cray Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Courtney S Turner Charitable Trust, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, The Cloud L Cray and Sara J Cray Family Foundation.
- Where is Cloud L Cray Foundation based?
- Cloud L Cray Foundation is based in KS.
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