· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $75,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER KC | $35,000 |
| KANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION | $30,000 |
| SPARKWHEEL | $30,000 |
| SIFMA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ATCHISON AMELIA EARHART FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VALLEY HOPE OF ATCHISON | $15,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $10,000 |
| YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS | $10,000 |
| THEATRE ATCHISON | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| ATCHISON CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| HOPE FAMILY THERAPY INC | $5,000 |
| ATCHISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
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, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- SISPARKWHEEL INC6× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +55%
- KCKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION6× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +25%
- SFSIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION (FIE) INC6× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- YEYouth Entrepreneurs Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +82%
- AAATCHISON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -5%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
Atchison community health clinic exists to promote wellness by providing quality healthcare to all.
To identify our community's greatest needs and then initiate sustainable programs and interventions to improve the health outcomes, quality of life, and economic vitality for the atchison kansas community.
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
The kansas cooperative council exists to promote, support and advance the interests, business success, and understanding of agricultural, utility, credit and consumer cooperatives and their members through legislation and regulatory…
Kansas action for children, inc. is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to shaping health, education and economic policy that improves the lives of kansas children and their families.
Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
To maintain real estate for the economic development of atchison county, kansas. to provide resources and assistance for continued economic development in atchison county, kansas.
The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys Club of Greater Kansas City and the most unlike its peers is The Humane Society of Atchison Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 52 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 SPARKWHEEL INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION (FIE) INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds ATCHISON AMELIA EARHART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Youth Volunteer Corps ↗
- Who funds HOPE FAMILY THERAPY INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ATCHISON INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ATCHISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Youth Entrepreneurs Inc ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO INC ↗
- Who funds ATCHISON CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ATCHISON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Atchison Art Association ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ATCHISON INC ↗
- Who funds GIVING THE BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: 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
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 Cloud L Cray 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.